RE: Band Button

[Dave Agsten]

Wow - never thought anything as simple as a band select button would cause such commotion. Back when there were rotary bandswitches you had to go through 40 to get from 80 to 20. How did we ever manage that? Such silly stuff.........

73,
Dave N8AG

PS - wonder which button is next on the list? Oh, that's right, the Mode button.........


     
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[Mike Cox]

I rather miss sliding the honeycomb wound coils over the wooden dowels
and landing the leads in Fahnestock clips followed by plugging in a new
crystal to change bands. It was made more interesting by forgetting to
turn off the HV but was a great way to wake up in the morning.

By the way (while robbing threads) why does the K3 use a threaded post
and knurled nut to fasten the ground wire when it's obvious that a
Fahnestock clip could do the same job much quicker without even using a
thumb? :-)


Dave Agsten wrote:

> Wow - never thought anything as simple as a band select button would cause such commotion. Back when there were rotary bandswitches you had to go through 40 to get from 80 to 20. How did we ever manage that? Such silly stuff.........
>
> 73,
> Dave N8AG
>
> PS - wonder which button is next on the list? Oh, that's right, the Mode button.........
>
>
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[Rick Dettinger-3]

The solution is really very simple.  Just have a bank of K3's.  One  
for each band of interest.  With a switching arrangement to suit the  
operator.  Hams can't leave everything up to the rig designers.
Also, maybe the firmware download could have a menu, with user  
selectable features.  One size fits all  firmware can't please everyone.

73
Rick Dettinger  K7MW

=====================================================  On Jul 26,  
2008, at 7:04 AM, Dave Agsten wrote:

> Wow - never thought anything as simple as a band select button would  
> cause such commotion. Back when there were rotary bandswitches you  
> had to go through 40 to get from 80 to 20. How did we ever manage  
> that? Such silly stuff.........
>
> 73,
> Dave N8AG
>
> PS - wonder which button is next on the list? Oh, that's right, the  
> Mode button.........
>
>
>

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