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

[drewko1 at verizon.net]

I'm actually a little more worried the TEST mode will be off when it
actually isn't. I like to bang out a few practice lines of code every
now and then just to keep the fist limbered up. It is kind of
embarrassing to open up on the air with a few stanzas from Kubla Khan
or something, thinking the transmitter is disabled...

Rather than a bigger visual indication for TEST, I would rather have
an audible warning. Say, a distinctive chirp every 5 seconds or so.
Perhaps other functions could also benefit from audible
annunciatiors/warning chirps. These would be user selectable, of
course. 

Aren't there plans to do this? I thought I read somewhere that audio
chirps and Morse Code legends would be addded for various button
pushes/functions?

73,
Drew
AF2Z


On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:43:51 -0700, Carl WS7L 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.
>
>73 & thanks for listening,
>Carl WS7L
>