[Elecraft] Band button

[Brett Howard]

Sorry for the added bandwidth but for worry of the rig getting broken I
vote to no have a fix implemented.  In my mind I consider the 20 meter
band below the 10 meter band.  So yes when I press DOWN on a band switch
I expect to go to lower frequencies.  I'm sure there are many who think
I'm dumb for it but I do believe that the 20 meter band is BELOW the 10
meter band.

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 12:54 +0000, Brian Alsop wrote:
> 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.
> >>  
> >
> >
> 
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