[Elecraft] P3 button alterations (maybe not too late)

[Brett Howard]

Personally I'd greatly more appreciate 8 PF's which can easily be
labeled by the LCD.  I'd prefer even more the ability to have the power
button as yet another PF as I'll probably have the P3 power up upon
power applied and then simply plug it into the +12V out on the K3.  

I honestly have gotten well used to using M>V then a number to change
bands and never use the BAND rocker.  I'll have things that I'd like to
put on those PF's but my rig won't be using them as band switching
buttons.  Honestly with two taps I can get a bandswitch done in less
time than a tap and hold takes.

What I would like to see is if a PF is pointed at a menu item that sends
the radio to that menu item in the actual menu.  So if I set a PF to AGC
THR I can then simply use VFO B to quickly get to the other AGC
settings.  This way I can use some of the PF's as quick bookmarks into
the configuration menu.

~Brett (KC7OTG)

On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 01:12 -0400, inventor_sixty_one wrote:
> The power switch really isn't necessary; holding the QSY knob in could
> perform the same function.
> Most people will select for the P3 to come 'on' with the K3 anyway.
> By freeing up the power switch position, you create five 'slots' (the former
> power switch and the 4 PF buttons).
> Then, you make those five positions into discrete half-height buttons, for a
> total of 10 across the bottom of the display.
> The 'menu' button next to the QSY knob stays as-is.
> Very little additional board work or sheet metal changes would be needed,
> and, the buttons and caps themselves are already
> Elecraft stock parts, from the K1.  (Yes, I know they'd have to be silk
> screened for this application.)
> These ten new buttons would be labeled "160" "80" "40" et cetera; yielding
> the much coveted dedicated band switches for each band,
> and thus enabling full coverage direct band selection and allowing for
> equally-wished-for band stacking registers.
> This also eliminates the confusing choice of 8 unlabeled PF buttons, which
> is what's there now.
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Steve KZ1X/4
> K1, K2, K3, etc.
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