Posted by
M0XDF on
Jan 26, 2009; 9:04am
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Main-vs-Config-Menus-tp2216024p2216884.html
I use Menu a little, perhaps as much as Config, but then we are all
learning and tweaking at the moment.
Having the F/W identify which are most commonly used Config entris and
duplicate it in Menu might be nice, but would use up even more of the
memory. And you'd still need a way of removing it when you didn't use
it.
After a year of use, I'd suggest menu should be a place for personal
configuration of favourite Config items, they all stay in Config, but
you can add them to the Menu if you use them a lot, perhaps with a
press of the V->M key, when in Config and a M->V removes them from
Menu, when in Menu. You'd want to keep the Menu slots down. There are
only 13 at present and I've never used some, like Rx/Tx EQ or Alarm
(which I'll have a play with).
And once I'd set the brightness controls, haven't used them since.
This would also save having to use PF keys (for me there aren’t
anyware near enough) to get at Config items that you use occasionally,
but not enough to warrant using a PF key for.
73 de M0XDF
--
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. -Japanese
proverb
On 26 Jan 2009, at 05:11, Tony Fegan VE3QF wrote:
> Mike,
> I thought about this some time ago but as I got used to the present
> arrangement subsequently forgot about it. I can never remember which
> items are in the MENU, which were in the CONFIG and which require
> TECH MD.
>
> Would it be possible to start out with everything in the CONFIG and
> have an option to move your personal choice of items, you regularly
> change while operating, to the MENU.
> By saving your settings you could even have different MENU items for
> SSB, for CW and for DATA. The appropriate settings could be loaded
> before a contest. The list of MENU items could be very small for fast
> access. Perhaps items could be sent to the MENU by MODE or even
> operation type (contest, DX chasing, 160M, 6M)?
>
> If its just a couple of items then the PF keys can be used but you
> have
> to set that up.
> I don't know whether many K3 owners would be interested in such a
> feature. How many times do you use MENU/CONFIG during normal
> operation?
> It seems that we never stop asking for changes to the firmware but a
> healthy discussion usually produces better ways of getting the most
> out
> of the K3 which may, or may not, require a firmware change. (We are
> always thinking of you Wayne... Lyle...!)
>
> Mike Scott wrote:
>> I don’t know about anyone else but I don’t understand the K3 Main vs.
>> Config menus. The Main menu is supposedly the menu of items that one
>> would need to select the most often. Well for me, I almost never
>> visit
>> the main menu. I will visit the Config menu almost every day. It
>> seems
>> that my experience is just the opposite of what was planned for the
>> menus. Maybe someone should take a statistical measure of the menu
>> items
>> most needed and place the top ten items in the Main menu. I would bet
>> that the top ten items are not in the current Main Menu at all.
>>
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