[Elecraft] Band button

[Brian Alsop]

Don ,

I agree we think in bands.  That's why the band button arrows ought to 
do the right thing.

Here is the situation now:
I want to go from 20 to 10 meters.  I have to press the DOWN button to 
go from 10 -->20.  Doesn't makes sense by any thought process.
Last I knew they still teach counting UP as  0, 1, 2, 3 ....10.... 20.

The DOWN arrow changes FREQUENCY down.    That's why frequency is the 
right label.

Sure it is a nit.  However, more than half the time I end up going the 
wrong direction because I think in bands and conventional count 
directions..

73 de Brian/K3KO



Don Wilhelm wrote:

> Your lexicon must be quite different than mine.  In my 54 years of 
> association with ham radio, we have had Amateur "Bands".  Why would 
> one want to label the device that changes between these bands as a 
> "frequency" switch?  The VFO changes frequency, the band switch 
> changes bands.
>
> You are free to re-label yours -- just don't do the same to mine.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> K3KO wrote:
>
>> This isn't just the K3.  Other radios have the same problem.   It 
>> seems to be
>> a mistake that persisted through the years.
>>
>> The button marked "band" with up and down arrows really is frequency.
>>
>> You push the up arrow and the band goes down.  Press down arrow and band
>> goes up.
>>
>> It would be nice to have this fixed in the K3.  No hope for other 
>> radios.
>>
>> Right now I have a white sticky label with freq on it pasted over the 
>> band
>> marking.
>>  
>
>