[Elecraft] [K3] K3 ergonomics

[drewko]

I use the BAND button without even thinking about it when I only need
to go up or down one band, which is often. Along with the M>V direct
band selection I would say that on average it takes me about 1.25
button pushes to switch bands, hahah... So, one-push dedicated band
buttons aren't on my wish list.

However, I do think the BAND button could be made to be a lot more
versatile. I'd like to have it jump among a contiguous range of slots
in the  programmable frequency memories (10-99). Then I could program
as few or as many bands as I wanted, in whatever order I wanted,
including non-ham bands. The ham-band-only boundary system is my major
complaint about the BAND button/function on the K3.

73,
Drew
AF2Z




On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:42:48 -0400, Don W3FPR wrote:

>Would you settle for a 'two-touch' method for bandchanging?  If so, it 
>is already there - set CONFIG: MEM 0-9 to BAND SEL   (see the manual 
>page 56).
>After that, assign one band to each of the 10 keypad buttons and the K3 
>will remember the last used frequency on a band - tap the M>V button and 
>then the keypad button corresponding to the band you want and you will 
>be taken to that band.  I hardly ever use the BAND up/down button on my K3.
>
>73,
>Don W3FPR
>