[Elecraft] WIDTH control - Was: ON4UN has a K3?

[Brett Howard]

I must admit that this also is one that I felt was weird.  To me it only
seemed natural to have the power button on the top.  As when I first
started looking at the panel it took me a second to find the button but
not long.  

Now that I think about it it makes sense though.  The POWER button is
such a rarely used thing (during operation) that it makes sense not to
give it the pole position seat.  That puts band in a much easier to get
to location.  I see it as an improvement in ergonomics and one that
personally I don't think I'd have come up with on my own.  Convention in
my mind was that band and mode would have been slid down and power in
the top corner.  I'll definately remember this when I go to design my
next keypanel.

~Brett (KC7OTG)

On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 09:38 -0400, n4lq wrote:
> I often hit the band button when I want to turn the rig off. Seems natural
> that the power button would be on top. No biggie
> Steve Ellington
> N4LQ at insightbb.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "hank k8dd" <k8dd at inbox.com>
> To: <drewko1 at verizon.net>; <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 9:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] WIDTH control - Was: ON4UN has a K3?
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> 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <drewko1 at verizon.net>
> >
> >> The panel layout works for me too. Anyone who has used it for awhile
> >> will realize they know where many of the functions are without needing
> >> to read the labels as to what is a tap and what is a push, etc. The
> >> only one I had trouble with was the WIDTH control. For some reason I
> >> kept expecting the filter b/w to become narrower as I turned it
> >> clockwise...
> >>
> >> 73,
> >> Drew
> >> AF2Z
> >
> > I agree .... It seems strange that the WIDTH control turns to the left for
> > narrower when the Filter display goes right .... I thought I was the only
> > one that felt this way.
> > There are a handful of things that seem strange that you have to get used 
> > to on this radio!
> >
> > 73    Hank    K8DD
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