[Elecraft] K3/10 For Sale or Trade

[Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604]

   From: "Paul Christensen" <w9ac at arrl.net>
   Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:07:31 -0400

   >  I also find it is much easier to hold the REV button and tune the VFO 
   > with one hand when working split on the Omni-VI than the K3.

   That's one K3 limitation that I have not experienced with most other 
   transceivers.   Of all the panel buttons, the placement of the REV button is 
   probably the most critical.   Other controls maybe touched up periodically 
   but when you're working split with a paddle in one hand, split mode requires 
   a very ergonomic one-hand operation.  I would have preferred the K3's REV 
   button placed either in place of the red Freq. Entry button so that the 
   right index finger can be used while using the thumb and other fingers to 
   find the Dx stations listening frequency -- or in the alternative, placement 
   of the REV button on the lower left of the main VFO so that the right thumb 
   is used.  I am right-handed so I am naturally biased.

What about reassigning the "Sub" button to REV if no subreceiver is
installed?

I tune left-handed, but the middle three fingers are adequate for
that, and reassignment of the SUB button would mean the left-over
digit could be used for the REVERSE function, with either hand.

73, doug