[Elecraft] Bandwidth Control Direction (was ON4UN has a K3?)

[David Yarnes]

Gary and all,

I'm in the same boat!  But I think it's simply the fact that 
on most other radios a clockwise turn increases 
selectivity--makes the filter narrower.  The way the K3 does 
it makes sense when you think about it, but nonetheless, it 
is contrary to what we have been used to doing with other 
radios.  To that end I guess Wayne set this control up in a 
way that is counterintuitive, but only if you have been 
trained (as apparently many of us have) to think the other 
way.  I guess I'll adapt (eventually), but it's a bit 
surprising how difficult it has been to get there.  The 
older I get, the harder it seems to be to reprogram my 
brain!

Dave W7AQK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Bartlett VE1RGB" <garybartlett at accesswave.ca>
To: <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] ON4UN has a K3?


>    I have been noting with great interest the comments 
> about which way to rotate the WIDTH control to narrow the 
> filters.  Logic may tell you that clockwise should be 
> wider, but some other instinctive force greater than that 
> always wants me to turn it clockwise to go narrow. 
> Everyone up here who uses my K3 says the same thing.
>
>    At first I thought this was maybe just a Canuck thing 
> and I was too embarrassed to speak about it.  Then I 
> wondered if it was my advancing age, and I didn't want to 
> talk about that either.  Today, however, I am comforted to 
> know that I/we are not alone.
>
>    Now if Wayne would only reprogram the rig so that VOX 
> would default to OFF on shut-down, I wouldn't have to 
> concern myself about trying to remember to turn VOX off 
> myself so that the rig does not actually transmit during 
> the booting of the attached computer and again when the 
> logging program starts on next turn-on of the rig.
>
>    73,
>    Gary, VE1RGB, K3 #095
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Paul at N4LCD.com>
> To: <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] ON4UN has a K3?
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>>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...
>>
>> Same here. That's the only knob that I consistently turn 
>> the wrong way.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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