[Elecraft] K3 power loss: Last settings forgotten

[David Woolley (E.L)]

Erik N Basilier wrote:
> 
> I am very familiar with the internals of computers, more than enough to 
> know that these behaviors can be expected unless one pointedly designs 
> to eliminate them, and that *can* be done. There is no fundamental 

One factor to consider here is that the flash memory has a limited write 
cycle life time, typically in the range of 100,000 to 1,000,000 cycles. 
  That means that you don't want to write every change back immediately.


> reasons that any machine that contains a computer needs to behave like a 
> PC. I do not mean to criticize the design of the K3, particularly since 
> we know that there are more important goals for the designers. My 
> objective was just to find out whether the behavior of my K3 was 
> consistent with the K3 design. In general, I find the K3 to be much more 
> free from those "computerish" characteristics than a PC is, and that is 
> one reason I am using a K3 and not a radio that depends on a PC to 
> function.

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