[Elecraft] P3 Cursor Position

[Fred Jensen]

The Smiths wrote:
> I can belive that, that's why you know it's Cyan, and not just
> "blue".. LOL.  But for the rest of the people here that keep things
> simple RED, GREEN, BLUE and YELLOW they just call it Blue..

Got to play with N6XI's new P3 this last weekend.  Pretty cool!.  I did 
figure out that one of the little "U-channels" was VFO A and the other 
was B because turning the B knob moved it, and they get wider with wider 
filters.  Unfortunately they look the same to me.  In fact, all of it 
looks the same, I don't have any color vision.  Notwithstanding, the P3 
sure seemed usable to me.

I did notice that the waterfall seemed to be of little use to me, and I 
don't know if that's because I'm not real fond of waterfalls and use the 
MMTTY spectrum display on RTTY, or because the P3 waterfall is 
color-coded somehow that's lost for me.

Supporting myself in college at the end of the 50's/early 60's as an 
engineer at the local TV station, color TV was just showing up.  I never 
turned the color monitor on so I never had to fix it because it never 
broke on my shift.  All the rest I could do with the RGB scope, all of 
which were "Tektronix scope-color" traces.  Most hams are male, most 
males max out at about 16 colors [Windows default], "peach" is a fruit, 
not a color if you're male, and no male knows what mauve is.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
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