[Elecraft] Voice Announcement

[Gary Lee]

To all:

At the present time, there is a pc program, k3voice, which gives limited 
access to the k3 display and settings.
Elecraft plans to add access to all practical menu options in the future.
As for operating a k3 while blind, I have been doing so for two years.  The 
switchtone option is extremely helpful.
While I have not yet figured out some things like psk and rtty decoding, 
noise reduction settings, and agc settings, the rig works well, and I only 
expect it to get better.

Wayne and Eric have publicly promised access to all their rigs in the past, 
and I am confident they will come through.

Where is KenYaecom with their million dollar engineering staffs with full 
access?
I've only seen two, and rigs, and no promises, both rigs from kenwood.
Yes Tobey, you are spot on that older rigs without menus are much easier to 
operate.  However these are becoming like hen's teeth.  I recently found an 
icom 751A with voice synth and external keypad. I, of course, snapped it up.

Good discussion, let's keep it going if the list approves.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Toby Pennington" <toby423 at embarqmail.com>
To: <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 8:51 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] Voice Announcement


>I think a word of caution might be in order here.  I am not sure if 
>Elecraft will add voice announcement or not.   It is a good feature and 
>found on many rigs today.
>
> However,  the K3 would not be my choice for a blind ham or a soon to be 
> blind ham.   I believe an older rig where all the knobs and buttons are 
> for single use purpose would be a lot better.  Not to mention a rig where 
> there are not menus or not many menus might be more appropriate.
>
> I had enough trouble figuring out how to operate a K3 (especially using 
> the menus and memory ) and I can still see.
>
> I would not know for sure what to recommend for a blind ham,   but it sure 
> would not be the K3.
>
> Toby  W4CAK
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