[Elecraft] [K3] Software suggestion: a more prominent TEST indicator

[Ian White GM3SEK]

Brett Howard wrote:
>On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 22:43 -0700, Carl Clawson wrote:
>> It's just too easy to miss the little blinking TX annunciator if you've left
>> your K3 in test mode. How about once in a while doing something more
>> dramatic like scrolling TX TEST across the VFO A display, or flashing the
>> display, or making the SWR and power meter displays flicker in some
>> obnoxious way, or ...
>>
>> The challenge is to think of something that doesn't impair any useful aspect
>> of test mode.
>>
>HAHA...  At FD one of the operators said... "Man I really love the way 
>the receiver sounds but NOBODY will come back to me".  On his next 
>transmission I noticed that there was no RF showing up on the bar 
>graph. Then I noticed the flashing TX...  I mentioned to him that he 
>was in test mode.

That's very easily done, especially by a new operator who isn't familiar 
with the K3's "tap/hold" functions.

One possibility would be to flash the delta-F LED continuously, in sync 
with the annunciator (as that LED's normal warning function is not 
needed while in test mode).


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73 from Ian GM3SEK
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