Dissable AM

[Lu Romero - W4LT]

George:

How do you monitor a mode that you dont have a filter for?

When you disable a mode for transmit, logically, it shouldnt
show up in the display when you scroll through the modes...
It is after all DISABLED.

Same thing with AGC.  Just had a couple of friends using a
borrowed K3 for the first time in a mobile in FQP this past
weekend that accidentally pressed and held the AGC button,
turning off the AGC.  They noticed that the front panel
display saidn "AGC-" so they assumed that AGC was on and
were amazed when multiple stations blasted their ears off.
Since there is no little S or little F after the AGC, it was
actually off, as we more experienced K3 pilots understand.

Would be nice if when the AGC was off if AGC disapeared or
we could put a O for off or a X for "crossed out=off" on the
display.

Minor stuff that you learn, but details are everything
sometimes.  I can live with what we have, but un other
words, if it was an airplane, it would have killed them!
Glad its just Ham Radio!

You never get a second chance to make a first impression to
a user...

-lu-w4lt-
K3 # 3192

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All:

If you mean that a mode is not enabled for transmit; then I
disagree. I do
monitor to modes that I will probably never transmit
especially if it means
spending the funds to purchase filter(s).
At some point the config. menu will become way too bloated
to be effective;
we might even be there already from a recent posting
requesting full
information on the menu options. Scrolling one more position
is not an issue
for at least one of us!

My 2 cents!
George
AI4VZ


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[Lu Romero - W4LT]

Sorry, what I should have said is:

If you disable a mode THAT YOU DONT HAVE A FILTER FOR or
DECIDE YOU DONT WANT TO USE, logically, it shouldnt show up
in the display when you scroll through the modes...
It is after all DISABLED.

Its not a big issue, really, but the question was a valid
and logical question.

-lu-


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[Ruben Navarro Huedo-2]

This is what i think.

El 04/05/2011 5:10, Lu Romero escribió:

> Sorry, what I should have said is:
>
> If you disable a mode THAT YOU DONT HAVE A FILTER FOR or
> DECIDE YOU DONT WANT TO USE, logically, it shouldnt show up
> in the display when you scroll through the modes...
> It is after all DISABLED.
>
> Its not a big issue, really, but the question was a valid
> and logical question.
>
> -lu-

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[David Honey]

One thing that seems to work fairly well is that if you have the 2nd
RX, you can have both on AM, but shift the 2nd RX by around 2.7kHz or
2.8kHz with respect to the 1st RX. In effect, it gives you AM
bandwidth of about 5.6kHz. Of course that means you don't get diversity RX.

73 de David M0DHO

At 04:00 04/05/2011, Lu Romero wrote:
>George:
>
>How do you monitor a mode that you dont have a filter for?


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