[Elecraft] [K3] more function keys please

[Don Wilhelm]

Grant,

You are so correct. 
Let me ask a rhetorical question here - How many people remember what 
the 12 function keys on the computer keyboard are for in each and every 
application they run?  I certainly don't.  It is easier for me to just 
do the steps manually than to remember what macros I put into the K3.  4 
is about the limit that are managable IMHO, and maybe that can be 
expanded to 8 for some things - this is a case of 'less is more' for 
me.  I just don' like "magic buttons", I'd rather control it myself 
manually.

73,
Don W3FPR

Grant Youngman wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Byron Servies wrote:
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>   
>> Perhaps something from the CAD or gaming world.  The surface would not
>> even necessarily be connected directly to the radio itself, but to the
>> computer controlling it, sending appropriate commands via the computer
>> control port.
>>     
>
> Don't you already have a control surface on a computer --e.g., keyboard?
>
> I think the ideas for all the additional Macro memories are great, but  
> ultimately remembering what Macro is where becomes the limiting factor  
> (at least for those terribly disadvantaged of us without eidetic  
> memory) in how many distinct Macro locations and functions are  
> actually useful without a reference manual (or useful at all beyond  
> being a curiosity).  And by the time you look to see what button press 
> (es) is or are required to execute the function "grill medium rare on  
> the hot side of the fire 6 inches above the coals", you might as well  
> just run the radio by hand :-)
>
> There's a tendency to want to turn a perfectly good idea into a  
> monster -- just because it's there :-)
>
> Grant/NQ5T
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