[Elecraft] K3 Band switch

[Don Wilhelm]

Ron,

Warning: RANT ON --

Before we get more confused with terminology, it is not a "stacking" 
memory if you can retrieve from any slot in the memory - that is random 
access.

A "stack" can only be loaded/unloaded from one end (usually referred to 
as the top) and one must sequentially remove entries until the one 
wanted is present.  The K3 regular band switch is more akin to a 
"stack", but not quite since it wraps around and one can move in either 
direction.

I don't care what other manufacturers and hams have called things, but 
many have certainly strayed far away from what they are supposed to 
mean.  For instance, what is commonly referred to as a 'zepp' antenna is 
nothing like the original, the G5RV has been quite mutilated, and L.B. 
Cebik (sadly now SK) had long been an advocate for striking the word 
'counterpoise' from the ham language because it has become so misused 
that we now have a term for something that has no clear definition of 
what it is, so we always have to ask for details.  Please, let's not 
start this with memory naming - the programming field has long had 
meaningful definitions for such things and they make sense - it would be 
nice to keep it that way.

RANT OFF

73,
Don W3FPR

Ron Durie wrote:
> I have programmed the keypad as band switches and programmed M1-M4 on each
> band.  
> I have also programmed frequencies into my memory locations.  This works
> well but takes some getting used to.  
>
>
>  
> Maybe I should think of it not as a Band Switch but as a frequency Stacking
> register.  
> Any frequency can be put into any stacked position.  
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>