Tuning Step Sizes on 41m

blurryfaceblurryface
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Hello,


When tuning on 40m/41m, where the amateur band overlaps with the broadcast band, is it possible to change the tuning step size of the large -/+ buttons to be 1kHz instead of 5kHz? I can use the smaller tuning buttons, but it requires way more clicks to dial in on a desired signal.


Thanks!

Comments

  • smgsmg

    Not 100% sure I follow, as the middle +/- button is 1KHz step, and just press and hold rather than click.

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  • G8JNJG8JNJ

    The tuning steps default to +/- 5kHz above 7200kHz in some regions, where there is no amateur allocation above that frequency and it remains a Broadcast only allocation.

    Regards,

    Martin

  • blurryfaceblurryface

    Correct, when tuned to 7200kHz, it's showing +/- 5kHz for the large tuning buttons:

    Screenshot 2025-05-17 at 7.31.10 PM.png

    And it's showing +/- 100kHz for the medium sized tuning buttons:

    Screenshot 2025-05-17 at 7.30.58 PM.png

    I'd love to be able to change this to +/- 1kHz tuning steps, but after poking around in the admin section, I cannot find any settings that allows me to do this.

  • jksjks

    Since you mentioned the admin page in your recent post I have an answer for you. You can't really do much for a Kiwi you don't have admin privileges for.

    One thing you can do is change the ITU region setting on the admin config tab. This affects several things (mostly 9/10 kHz step size on the AMBC band). If you set R2 (N/S America) 41m will start at 7300 kHz instead of 7200 for R1/R3.

    If you don't want to change the ITU setting you can modify the 41m band setting directly (for the stored DX label database anyway). Go to the admin DX tab, click the circle-plus icon for "band bars", scroll down and modify the start frequency for 41m with ITU=R1 (assuming you're using R1) from 7200 to 7300 kHz. Similarly for other band bars, e.g. you don't want the 40m ham band to overlap 41m for R3, which it does by default.

  • blurryfaceblurryface

    Thanks for the reply.


    The ITU region was already set to R2 in my admin config settings, but the 5 kHz tuning steps still start at 7200 kHz.


    So, I set the 41m band to start at 7300 kHz as recommended, and that solved it for me. Thank you!

  • jksjks

    Okay. I admit that it's not an optimal solution. The entire "overlapping bands" problem could be better addressed. It's been on the todo list for a long, long time.

  • smgsmg

    I see the issue, sorry for my reply and not fully understanding it. !

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