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wayne burdick

Re: K3 Wish List - XIT tell-tale

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Hi Tom,

There are LCD icons for both RIT and XIT. XIT is rarely used, and
you'd think that those who do use it would be motivated to keep an eye
on both the XIT icon and the Delta-F LED. That said, I'll add to my
list consideration of flashing the XIT icon and/or the Delta-F LED. I
have to be careful with such changes because of unintended side
effects and the annoyance factor. It would certainly need a menu entry
for disabling this behavior.

73,
Wayne
N6KR

On Jan 1, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Tom Boucher wrote:

> I guess Elecraft are now beyond wanting to make relatively minor
> changes to the K3 as it is now a mature product, but how about this?
> On two occasions recently I have been in QSO with a weak distant
> station on 160 or 80 and a very loud EU has come up on the same
> frequency with a QRL? On my reply of 'R Pse QSY' the other station
> ignores me and begins a long and loud CQ thus wiping out the one I'm
> trying to work. Both times I established that the interfering
> station was using a K3 and had inadvertently left the 'XIT' function
> on, thus transmitting on a different frequency to that he was
> listening on.
>
> The yellow 'delta f' tell-tale LED is there to tell you that either
> the RIT or XIT function is on, but if you are already using the RIT
> function, there is nothing to tell you that XIT is also on. Would it
> be a simple firmware mod to make the lamp flash on and off when XIT
> is active?
>
> 73
> Tom G3OLB
> ______________

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Jessie Oberreuter-2

Re: K3 Wish List - XIT tell-tale

It's always fabulous to hear that kind of consideration, Wayne!
Apropos to the perfect pitch discussion a few weeks back, I suffer/enjoy
audio/visual synesthesia, and blinking things annoy the crap out of me!

On Sun, 1 Jan 2012, Wayne Burdick wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> There are LCD icons for both RIT and XIT. XIT is rarely used, and
> you'd think that those who do use it would be motivated to keep an eye
> on both the XIT icon and the Delta-F LED. That said, I'll add to my
> list consideration of flashing the XIT icon and/or the Delta-F LED. I
> have to be careful with such changes because of unintended side
> effects and the annoyance factor. It would certainly need a menu entry
> for disabling this behavior.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
> On Jan 1, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Tom Boucher wrote:
>
>> I guess Elecraft are now beyond wanting to make relatively minor
>> changes to the K3 as it is now a mature product, but how about this?
>> On two occasions recently I have been in QSO with a weak distant
>> station on 160 or 80 and a very loud EU has come up on the same
>> frequency with a QRL? On my reply of 'R Pse QSY' the other station
>> ignores me and begins a long and loud CQ thus wiping out the one I'm
>> trying to work. Both times I established that the interfering
>> station was using a K3 and had inadvertently left the 'XIT' function
>> on, thus transmitting on a different frequency to that he was
>> listening on.
>>
>> The yellow 'delta f' tell-tale LED is there to tell you that either
>> the RIT or XIT function is on, but if you are already using the RIT
>> function, there is nothing to tell you that XIT is also on. Would it
>> be a simple firmware mod to make the lamp flash on and off when XIT
>> is active?
>>
>> 73
>> Tom G3OLB
>> ______________
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