[Elecraft] Wish List for K3

[Dick Dievendorff]

I'm not an LCD expert, but some general-purpose LCDs are simply an array of
dots and you can program them to show anything.  But it looks like an array
of dots.  An example is the LCD on my Array Solutions Power Master
http://www.arraysolutions.com/Products/powermaster.htm.

Other LCDs have custom "icons". The VFO A and B areas use seven-segments and
a dot sort of construction that gives you numbers and most characters (and i
sometimes lower case is used, because upper case D looks a lot like an O or
a zero). So during DSP load it shows up as "dSP", which looks amazingly
close to d5P (d five p).

Other areas like the S-Meter area appear to be custom icons.  There isn't
any programming to draw the scale of the S-meter. It's "burned in" to the
glass.  The programming can choose to illuminate it or leave it dark.

I don't know who the custom LCD vendor was for the Elecraft K3, but here's a
web page for one company that provides custom LCD solutions:

http://www.pacificdisplay.com/design_lcd.htm

73 de Dick, K6KR


-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Lee Buller
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 3:02 PM
To: Elecraft Reflector
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Wish List for K3

RATS!  Oh well, now I have to get into my noggin' than when the VOX is not
showing I am in PTT mode.  HMMMM.  I thought the LCD was programmable...like
you could put anything on it anywhere.  HMMMMm.  How does that work?  Or,
maybe...why does it work that way?  Or is this not an LCD exactly like the
way I think and LCD should work?

Lee - K0WA
. 

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don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it.  If you
can't find any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common
Sense.  Is Common Sense divine?
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