[Elecraft] K3: Key down, Operator trouble, etc.

[Brett Howard]

Agreed this is a very interesting proposition.

On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 10:00 -0400, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> There was discussion of a future firmware change that would allow 
> different confgurations to be loaded - such as only 80, 40, 20, 15, and 
> 10 for a specific contest.  Once implemented, and when taken to extreme, 
> the K3 could be configured for only one band.  In my opinion, a 
> configuration like that is much more acceptable than a button (like the 
> VFO LOCK) to lock the K3 on one band.
> 
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
> 
> Alexandr Kobranov wrote:
> > Yes, one thing is not to make radis so "smart" and second one is how 
> > much cost all around which can be destroyed by some stupid mistake.
> > 
> > Such option - locking band - is not critical one but can help also in 
> > transverter mode, when only selected transverter band will be "permitted".
> > In case when transverter is driven by standard ANT port with let say 
> > 0,2W max out, switching to some standrd HF band with standard output 
> > power (12W max resp. 100W max) and short attempt to TX can destroy TX 
> > line in transverter I suppose. (Not tested - yet - :))
> > 
> > There is no way how to rely on PC control if BAND up/down button is 
> > still active and human being is operating station... Especially 
> > inmultioperator enviroment with different operators and skills.
> > 
> > 73!
> > Lexa, ok1dst
> > 
> > Brian Alsop napsal(a):
> >> In my opinion you don't want to burden the radio with this.
> >>
> >> The preferred way is to use any contesting program for logging and set 
> >> it up to be a single band operation.
> >>
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