[Elecraft] P3 Cursor Position

[Fred Jensen]

David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:
> I think I must be very fortunate, since I appear to be able to
> determine many more colours than 16. Not having been able to build my
> P3 yet (waiting for the nuts!), I can't be sure, but it looks like
> the cursors are both U channels, what if one was an upside down U,
> would that help?

Yep, they're both little square "U's."  I didn't have any problem using 
them.  Without the sub-rx, you always receive on whatever is in VFO A, 
so it's sort of moot, you're listening at the cursor on the center 
frequency, and if VFO B is not on the same frequency, it's the other 
cursor.  I don't know if the U-channels swap colors when you do an A|B 
on the K3, but it doesn't matter.  My K3 doesn't have the sub-rx, so I'm 
not familiar with its operation.  Rick's K3 had the sub-rx and I'm not 
sure of the P3 cursor behavior when you do A|B in that case, I didn't 
try it.

There was no manual at the operating position [it was at the West Coast 
CW Gathering in Reno Nevada and we were signing W6FOC/7 from the 17th 
floor of the Peppermill Hotel], however it can't have taken me more than 
3 or 4 minutes to figure out the basics of the P3.  The controls were 
very intuitive, I somehow knew that tapping DISPLAY would [eventually] 
get rid of the waterfall and fill the screen with the spectrum and it 
did.  I'm sure there are a host of features I didn't get to, but I was 
using it on the air very quickly.  It came across to me as highly 
consistent user-interface engineering, just like I expected from Aptos.

The "16 colors, Windoze default" is a "sort of joke," although a lot of 
males seem to be less sensitive to closely related colors than females, 
and many who can name colors don't really care, one kind of green is as 
good as another :-)  And in the "Think before you ask" department, 
people often ask me, "Well, just what colors can you see?"  The answer 
of course is "All of them ... I just can't name them."

73,

Fred K6DGW
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