[Elecraft] Band button

[K3KO]

Gosh,

How the true origin of names get lost with time is amazing.  

Bands were named after their approximate wavelength.   They weren't pulled
out of a hat.   One can probably find a question related to this in a 1950's
vintage Novice exam.

Also people have forgotten that the so called "low band DXing phrase" alway
had a (frequency) implied after the low.

I'm really surprised that this post has drawn such negative comments.

After all if the width control were backwards or the shift knob went the
wrong way, people would be screaming to have it fixed.

73 de Brian/K3KO


Tom Childers, N5GE wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 04:11:59 -0700 (PDT), K3KO <alsopb at nc.rr.com> 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.
>>
>>73 de Brian/K3KO
> 
> Now that I think of it the label on a button that worked the way you would
> like
> it to be would be labeled Wavelength.  That would put 160m at the top and
> 6m at
> the bottom.
> 
> Please don't do that Elecraft.
> 
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