[Elecraft] K3 FW request: enhanced TX TEST warning

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> As a stronger warning that the K3 is in TX Test mode, would it 
> be possible to flash the orange "Delta-F" LED as well as the 
> tiny TX icon?

Instead of doing that, why not simply hijack the VFO B display 
and flash "TX TEST" when in test mode?   The display is already 
there if you think users are so incompetent that they need hand 
holding.  

73, 

   ... Joe, W4TV 
 


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ian 
> White GM3SEK
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 2:23 PM
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Elecraft] K3 FW request: enhanced TX TEST warning
> 
> 
> 
> As a stronger warning that the K3 is in TX Test mode, would it be 
> possible to flash the orange "Delta-F" LED as well as the 
> tiny TX icon?
> 
> (Think of it as an extension of what Dick already does in the K3 
> Utility, to signify that the rig is not available for use.)
> 
> Reason for asking: Experienced user didn't notice he'd left 
> the rig in 
> Test mode. New user didn't notice the flashing TX icon, or 
> that no power 
> was going out... only that nobody was coming back to calls. 
> Experienced 
> user is in big trouble!
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 73 from Ian GM3SEK 
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