OK maybe I goofed, I thought it was red to prevent destroying night vision. 73 de Alex nS6y > The LED light in the KX1 is red, and will not allow you to read color > codes. That is not its purpose. 73 de Alex NS6Y > My LED (map reading) light on the front side is very bright white. > It works very well for color recognition. Geoff, K6TFZ