[Elecraft] K3 Band changing...Devils Advocate...

[Don Wilhelm]

Don,

Do you really want band *stacking* memories?  A stacking memory is 
first-in, last out, so you have to drill down through the stack to get 
the one you want.  That seems likea much worse situation than the normal 
band up/down switch which is a double ended stack.

If you are referring to something different, then please do not call it 
a stack - the definition of a memory stack has been quite clear since 
the first days of microprocessors.

73,
Don W3FPR

Don Rasmussen wrote:
> I brought up the band changing issue early on with the
> guys, not because I just had to have it, but because
> it seemed that every transceiver these days that's big
> enough to have them, does. 
>
> The thing that I find disconcerting is that even
> though many of the buttons on the K3 are fully
> occupied with multiple TAP and HOLD functions, there
> are (5) that I will never ever use in their TAP -or-
> HOLD capacity - those being M1, M2, M3, M4, and REC. 
>
> These could clearly be drafted into service as band
> stacking registers (on first press), yet they just
> stay there hogging up space on my front panel. 
>
> I proposed a CONFIG option that would allow the
> MESSAGE keys to be used either as DVK on first press
> as originally fitted, but also could be used as
> bandstack keys if the user preferred that as a first
> press function over the DVK. 
>
> A minimum of 5 band stack keys are waiting there for
> use, 10 if you include HOLD. 
>   
>