[Elecraft] K3 software utility ?

[Jim Brown]

On 10/30/2010 6:54 PM, Barry N1EU wrote:
> Main RX Width, Shift
> Sub RX Width, Shift, Ant

I can see some usefulness for this, although I'm pretty happy with what 
I have for the MAIN RX. What I'm not at all satisfied with is display 
for the SUB RX (nor with some of the operational functions relating to 
the sub-RX) and I'm hoping that Wayne and the guys are thinking about 
how to improve that. .

> TX Mic Gain, CMP, PWR, Mon

I can't think of any good reason for improving the display of any of 
these.  What really matters is the RESULT of the Mic Gain and CMP, and 
we've got that on the display. The setting MON is what's in my ears, so 
I don't need a readout of that either. I just finished making 924 QSOs 
in 28 hours of CQWWSSB with a manually tuned amp (Ten Tec Titan) and 
manual antenna tuners, and lots of band changes. We see the power 
setting when we adjust it.  Since the K3 can remember power settings by 
band, all I have to do is set them once per band, and occasionally tweak 
them a bit as I would QSY (from the west coast, you do mostly S&P in any 
contest that includes DX, no matter how wonderful your station).  And I 
really don't care what the K3 is putting out once I've set it --  I 
watch the power meter on the output of the amp.  And I MUST have a power 
meter on the output of the amp so that I can tune the amp properly.

73, Jim K9YC