[Elecraft] Revisiting the tuning indicator

[Ron ZL1TW]

Hi Bill,
            In the USA perhaps Yes... we are in New Zealand ( as you may 
have noticed) Different countries, different Field day methods.
I didn't suggest everyone should use a speaker at Field day.......
It would be a funny old Contest where everyone just called CQ and didn't 
answer anyone .........end of story.
Ron ZL1TW

At 07:46 PM 2/4/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>On Feb 4, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Ron ZL1TW wrote:
>
>>Explaining (a) a bit better; with my failing hearing (and I am not
>>alone with that problem in our Club) I find the upward facing
>>speaker on the K2 (and indeed most rigs) makes listening to CW
>>somewhat awkward. This is made even worse in FD situation when
>>....snip snip.....
>
>Pardon me if this doesn't sound like an obviously stupid question --
>but why are you using a speaker for Field Day? In every US Field Day
>that I have worked in recent memory, everyone used headphones.
>
>If you want to add a speaker for passer's by, that's one thing, but
>the operators making the contacts ought to be using headphones --
>makes it much easier to hear, hearing impairments or not.
>
>>Problem (b) was a bit different. In my K2 I had a K6XX tuning
>>indicator that worked on the last LED of the "S" meter display, and
>>....snip.....snip.....
>
>You could try calling CQ and then people would have to net to your
>frequency....
>
>Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
>Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
>             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901