[Elecraft] K3 Band switch

[Thomas Norff]

IMHO it would be neat to have a 'dynamic' tuning rate.

You start with what you selected by the existing buttons
(fine/course/rate...).
If the system would monitor your 'speed' while turning the knob it would be
possible to increase the speed 
if you keep turning (how much to ramp up ... TBD).
This way the system would react to your 'wishes'.
After a defined inactivity time the system will fallback to the manually
selected value.

That's it (sorry Wayne... )

73 Thomas, DM7TN


-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of drewko1 at verizon.net
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 8:20 PM
To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Band switch

On Wed, 07 May 2008 10:51:42 -0400, Don W3FPR wrote:

>Ron,
>
>
>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 miss FORTH [sigh]... 

But back to radios... I wonder if it would be useful to implement a
Very-Coarse tuning rate, say 5 MHz per full turn of the VFO knob.
That would be your band switch.

With such a rate you could quickly get to any band, ham or SWL or whatever.
However, if you should select a ham band with this coarse tune VFO, it would
automatically recall your previous settings for that band (same as the Band
buttons work)

It could be accessed by holding "Coarse" while turning the VFO knob.
Perhaps this could be managed with one hand?

[OK, I don't have a K3 and haven't read much of the manual, so probably
shouldn't be making comments at all. The above is just a suggestion. If it
isn't a useful one just ignore it; I'm not really looking for any feedback
on it.]

73,
Drew
AF2Z

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