[Elecraft] K3 BEEP BEEP BEEP

[Steve Ellington]

Here I set knowing that if I push the "TUNE" button I will wake up everyone. 
Why? Because it emits a beep and it's loud. Why is loud? Because my MON 
level is turned up really high. Oh I would love to turn it down but if I try 
that it will emit a LOUD TONE until I get it turned down. There's only one 
known solution, activate headphones, adjust the MON level then go back to 
spkr.
Yes....When using headphones I have to crank up the cw sidetone to about 42. 
If I forget to turn it back down to 15 before removing the headphones, I'm 
faced with the loud beep/tone syndrome again.

Here's how this SHOULD work.

When I press MON, I should be able to set the sidetone level without dealing 
with a constant tone! I could then set the MON for whatever level I want 
without waking up the entire neighborhood.
When I press TUNE (to activate my ext. autotuner) NO BEEP PLEASE

I don't mind having to change the sidetone level every time go from spkr to 
headphone...I realize that's due to impedance and sensitivity variations BUT 
I don't want loud, wanted, beep or tone when I do this. I'm sure this could 
be done via firmware. If for some strange reason someone wants these noises 
then maybe it could be a menu option.

Other than that my nearly 2 yr. old K3 has been fine except for the static 
electricity problem. When I touch the VFO A knob sometimes the screen goes 
blank, frequency changes and headphone changes to speaker output. Yea it's 
grounded to all kinds of things plus it's a new FP. Just weird I guess. 73

Steve
N4LQ
N4LQ at carolina.rr.com