[Elecraft] Wish List for K3

[R. Kevin Stover]

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David and Dick got it right.

It takes a lot of graphics processing power to make a general purpose
LCD look good. If you've got an LCD monitor on your computer there is a
point at which your current video card will not drive a larger monitor.
I ran into this when I upgraded to a 22" wide screen LCD. The old,(2
years) video card wouldn't drive it to a decent resolution.

The "iconized" LCD's take a lot less programming as the areas
specifically setup are either on or off. You can't anticipate everything
someone might like to see so it's a trade off.

On my K2 the only way I know I'm using VOX is the flashing U or L icon.
If it ain't flashing I know I'm running PTT mode.

Dick Dievendorff wrote:
| 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


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R. Kevin Stover, ACØH
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