[Elecraft] P3 Unexpected Control Operation ...

[Grant Youngman]

Left, right -- up/down -- do we not have forebrains anymore?

My P3 hasn't arrived yet (although since my CC has been billed, I suspect it won't be long).  I'm trying to figure out from the blather if this control direction will be bothersome.  Or, if I will somehow be able to adapt and not start grumbling that up is down and down is up and north is south and ... ;-)

Like this selectivity thing.  Why isn't WIDTH intuitively -- turn it right to get more?  The control is even marked that way to minimize confusion ... why SHOULD it be some other way?

The buttons to open, close, and minimize windows are on opposite sides in Windows vs. OS X.  The application menu bar is in a different place.  I have not complained to Apple that they screwed their software up, since the locations were "non-intuitive" for the first 2 seconds.  :-)

Grant/NQ5T


On Aug 9, 2010, at 11:05 AM, D. R. Evans wrote:

>> 
>> controls on both the K3 and P3.  If the controls were arranged to
>> adjust an underlying behavioral parameter instead of an absolute
>> value, the WIDTH control on the K3 should be reversed so that it
>> increases SELECTIVITY (less width) with increasing clockwise
>> rotation.
> 
> As a new K3 owner, this gave me trouble for the first few days