[Elecraft] Split reminder

[The Smiths]

I'm not sure that this is a case of the manufacture having to "protect" the opertor from him or herself.. but more of a matter of intuitivenes.  
You've also forgotten the fact that we have the CWT text reading mode, and that your VFO B display could easily be covered up by text from incoming code, or random noise.  Which is usually the case in the way I operate my rig.


The rig could easily give a notice of different modes.  Again, 99.99% of the other rigs out there will change the display of the VFO when it is in transmit mode on a split freq.  As we already agreed, the RIT can put this rig into the SAME EXACT indication that it's in Split mode.  Actually fooling the user.  

You and I both know that the display changes when the K3 has the RIT ON, and moved off VFO A's Freq.  Changing the display to do the same in split mode , one would then be able to look at the Green RIT led to see if they had the RIT on, OR the little arrow pointing to the B VFO if you had the SPLIT mode on. There could be no other confusion as to why the display keep changing.

The display changing is more common sense to those using the rig.  I'm actually more curious if this is simply a way that Wayne has decided to try and differentiate his radio from the others out there.. at the disadvantage of the users that forget what mode they are in...

Again, simply blinking the Delta F light (yellow LED) instead of having it on solid, as obnoxious as it is, would be better than nothing when in split mode.


 


 
> From: wb6rse1 at mac.com
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:06:08 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Split reminder
> 
> 
> On Oct 19, 2009, at 12:34 PM, The Smiths wrote:
> 
> This is true, but what happens when you operate your rig like I do, 
> and you keep your RIT on.
> _________
> 
> There is just so much any manufacturer can do to protect an operator 
> from him or herself. The K3 already has the delta f light, the SPLIT 
> indicator on the display (TU W2ZK - I'd forgotten that) and frequency 
> readout for both VFOs. As one who has made his share of errors with 
> the K3 and other radios, there is simply no substitute for just 
> learning how to use any radio. I've been puzzled more than a few times 
> by the K3 only to find the answer with RTFM.
> 
> The real problem with split errors is the insidious nastiness of the 
> cops when a quick "RSE up" will do (and the DX isn't TX!), or perhaps 
> a Talk cluster message that no one else sees. Either would be far less 
> disruptive.
> 
> 73! Steve WB6RSE
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