[Elecraft] K3: band-bitch

[R. Kevin Stover]

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Buy another radio that does everything you want.

Of course, it hasn't been built yet.

Here's an idea, start your own company and build "the perfect radio",
but be ready for the incessant whining (like 5 year olds) which will
issue forth from your customers because you didn't do it "their way".
The fact that it's the best performing radio on the market doesn't
matter a damn, "It won't let me do XXXXX" or "it won't let me do YYYYY"
is all you'll hear from the ingrates.

What's the matter, just because you'd have to spend 3-4X the money to
get your dedicated band changing keypad and anywhere near the
performance shouldn't be a problem, should it?

S Sacco wrote:
| I don't want to depend on my computer.
|
| I don't want to have to repeatedly push an up/down button.
|
| I don't want to custom-program memories, and have to remember what's what.
|
| I want to directly go to the band I want with a dedicated keypad.
|
| I bought the K3 despite this shortcoming, so I accept it, just like I
| accept that, for me, the radio is a bit too physically small, but that
| doesn't mean I have to like it.  It means only that I understand that
| practically everything in life is a compromise.
|
| 73,
| Steve NN4X
|
| P.S: It looks like Windows 7 is going to support touch screen input.
| Imagine the interfaces that'll be possible THEN!  We could create our
| own K3 on a big touch screen monitor, and it could be HUGE, and maybe
| I could even get my direct band-switching!
|
| Maybe I could write a UI that would make the K3 look like a 75A-4 or
| something (but with a built-in band scope ;-) ).
|
|
| On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:57 AM, DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL <dougzzz at gmail.com>
wrote:
|> My oh my.  What is so hard about changing bands on the K3?
|>
|> You can use the band up/down button (which means you are no more than
|> 5 pushes away from any band, probably less).  Is it really important
|> to change bands in less than 2 or 3 seconds?
|>
|> You can use direct keypad entry.  Also under 5 seconds.
|>
|> You can use the memories in any of the various setups posted here.
|> Any of them take just a couple seconds...some only 1 second.
|>
|> You can control the band from you computer (instant change).
|>
|> Even being a contester where time counts, I just can't see what is so
|> urgent about a "band switch" keypad ala the other rigs.  Is this
|> really such a big deal?
|>
|> de Doug KR2Q
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R. Kevin Stover, ACØH
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