[Elecraft] K3 Beta firmware rev. 2.58: FASTER BAND SWITCHING; BAND MAPPING

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> The only remaining annoyance is what happens when you leave 
> the ham bands, say if you leave 30m ham band and go into the 
> 31m SWBC band: the 31m band gets set as your 30m ham band. 

Yes, it would be nice if the K3 would spawn a "General Coverage" 
band when tuning outside the amateur bands and leave the adjacent 
ham band alone.  I think both Icom and Yaesu (in recent radios - 
FT-2000/FT-950/FT-450) do that.  The general coverage band is 
reset each time the user tunes out of the ham band and at least 
with the Yaesu the "General coverage" band can be included or 
excluded in the "band up/band down" steps. 

73, 

   ... Joe, W4TV 
 
 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of drewko
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:35 AM
> To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta firmware rev. 2.58: FASTER 
> BAND SWITCHING;BAND MAPPING
> 
> 
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:20:59 -0400, David Wilburn
> NM4M wrote:
> 
> >Sweet.  Thanks Elecraft!  You must of been reading my mind.  It is
> >hard to explain exactly how annoying it was recently having to keep 
> >stopping on 60m when I was going back and forth between 40m and 80m 
> >during CQ WW SSB.
> >
> >David Wilburn
> >NM4M
> >
> 
> 
> The only remaining annoyance is what happens when you leave 
> the ham bands, say if you leave 30m ham band and go into the 
> 31m SWBC band: the 31m band gets set as your 30m ham band. 
> But with judicious programming of the M1 thru M4 buttons you 
> can at least restore it quickly enough. 
> 
> 73,
> Drew
> AF2Z
>