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Band Button gripe - was ON4UN has a K3?

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Don Rasmussen

Band Button gripe - was ON4UN has a K3?

It still sticks in my craw that I have 5 single press
buttons on the front panel that I'll never use.

Elecraft - please make these available for use as
single press BAND buttons.

M1 M2 M3 M4 REC
80 40 20 15 10

That way we get into the ballpark with a single press
and can band up or band down from there. Seriously,
this should be a no-brainer!

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[Elecraft] ON4UN has a K3?
drewko1 at verizon.net drewko1 at verizon.net
Fri Jul 25 20:25:38 EDT 2008

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Yes, Don, I agree completely. Forget about the labels
entirely and
just learn them by key position. However, I went with
a vertical
scheme vs your horizontal one...

The first keypad column (1,4,7) is 160, 80, & 40.
Second column is 20
to 6 (6m stands apart way down there on the zero key);
third column is
the warc bands.

I figure if I can keep track of forty-some keys on a
keyboard without
looking then I can memorize the positions of ten band
buttons on the
k3. Now my band locations just seem.... right! No
label reading; no
mental translation... the buttons ARE the bands!

So, if the power goes out I can navigate the bands
without even
needing to see the buttons. (Admittedly, there isn't
much point to
navigating the band buttons when there is no power to
the K3...)

73,
Drew
AF2Z

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drewko

Re: Band Button gripe - was ON4UN has a K3?

Don, here's another idea...

Right now, the RIT knob has the option of being used as a coarse VFO
tuner when RIT and XIT are off. Perhaps people would like the option
of using it as a band switch instead? (I am pretty happy with the
numeric keypad system myself.)

73,
Drew
AF2Z

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:38:26 -0700 (PDT), Don Rasmussen wrote:

>It still sticks in my craw that I have 5 single press
>buttons on the front panel that I'll never use.
>
>Elecraft - please make these available for use as
>single press BAND buttons.
>
>M1 M2 M3 M4 REC
>80 40 20 15 10
>
>That way we get into the ballpark with a single press
>and can band up or band down from there. Seriously,
>this should be a no-brainer!
>
>==========================================
>
>

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Nick Kennedy

Re: Band Button gripe - was ON4UN has a K3?

In reply to this post by Don Rasmussen

And take away my CW memory buttons? That's madness!

I've got more band changing methods than I can keep track of already.

73- Nick, WA5BDU

Don Rasmussen wrote:

> It still sticks in my craw that I have 5 single press
> buttons on the front panel that I'll never use.
>
> Elecraft - please make these available for use as
> single press BAND buttons.
>
> M1 M2 M3 M4 REC
> 80 40 20 15 10
>
> That way we get into the ballpark with a single press
> and can band up or band down from there. Seriously,
> this should be a no-brainer!
>
> ==========================================
>
>
>