[Elecraft] Re: A Wish for my K2

[Kevin Cozens]

At 11:37 AM 01/29/2002 -0800, Wayne Burdick wrote:
>1. One thing I've resisted trying but that *would* get your attention is
>to leave on the right-most bar-graph LED segment whenever you're in
>SPLIT mode (and only during RX). This could be made an option in the
>menu. How high up on the obnoxious scale would that be? If it's not high
>enough, I could even blink it slowly.

It wouldn't work too well if a user had the bar graph display disabled.

>2. Another full-body-slam approach would be to put the letters "SP" at
>the far left end of the display, truncate the frequency, and lose the
>mode letter, i.e.:

This sounds like a better choice although I am inclined to think the idea 
of having the A/B indicator on solid showing ones RX VFO and the TX VFO 
flashing as a possibly better idea.

If you are considering firmware changes, I have a request.

Unless I have missed something (I am only just getting to know the 
operation side of my K2) the VFO's don't track the same information as a 
frequency memory. I have noticed that unlike my commercial rig, I can't set 
one mode on VFO A and a different mode on VFO B. I have also noticed that I 
can't have an frequency for a band in one VFO and a frequency for a 
different band on the other VFO.

A firmware change that allows each VFO to remember its full frequency (ie. 
including band) and mode would be really nice to have. It comes in very 
handy during contests allowing a quick switch of VFO to pop over to a 
different band to work a station and then a switch back to the original VFO 
to resume operation on ones previous frequency.


Cheers!

Kevin.  (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/)

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