[Elecraft] K3 Firmware Req for SWL band and Using Memories

[drewko]

I can also get around the bands (ham and SWBC) just fine. I suppose
the BAND switch is "straight forward" if you know that that it divides
the K3's entire HFcoverage range into ten "bands", each one having an
amateur radio allocation somewhere within:

0.5 to 3.0 MHz
3.0 to 4.8
4.8 to 6.0
6.to 9 
9 to 13 
13 to 17 
17 to 19 
19 to 23 
23 to 26 
26 to 30

It is understandable how general coverage users can be confused. The
BAND switch is really a HAM BAND switch with extended boundaries.

73,
Drew
AF2Z




On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:11:21 -0600, you wrote:

>
>On Nov 16, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
>
>> Whatever happened to direct frequency entry, either via memory or punching a
>> few number buttons on the keys?
>> 
>> I seldom touch the BAND switch.
>
>Especially if it ends up having 40 positions on it :-)
>
>I have been SWLing with my K3 since I got it last year.  (Even more happily now that we have a sync detector -- thank you Elecraft!).  Managed, somehow, to keep straight where I was, and when one of the band select positions needed to be reset to the ham band range.  What is with this seemingly compulsive need to take something simple, straightforward,  and not oh so terribly hard to understand and turn it into a multi-headed monster?  :-)
>
>Grant/NQ5T
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