[Elecraft] Band button

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

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.
> 
 
Nowhere is it written that the bands assigned to the Amateur service must be
referred to by wavelength. Indeed, here in the USA, our FCC refers to the
slices of spectrum we're assigned as "Frequency Bands", not "Wavelength
Bands".

The K3 button markings and their behaviors are perfectly correct: Push the
UP arrow and the radio switches to the next higher frequency band (except
where it 'rolls over' at the highest frequency band).

The K3 would be incorrect if the readout was in wavelength. Picture, instead
of "7.00000 MHz" on the LCD you saw "42827.494 meters". If that happened,
the UP/DOWN button would be working backwards. (Quick, what's  the upper
frequency limit on the 75 meter band?. It's 74948.1145 meters. Aw... Lets
stay with Hz)

Ron AC7AC