[Elecraft] APF suggestions

[Al Lorona]

The APF discussion is awesome, and I'm blown away that the K3 will be upgraded 
with it, and it's going to be a great tool, and I don't mean to rain on the 
parade, but my use of it will be limited to DXing and maybe occasional general 
use, but probably *not* contest use. 


Why? Too many controls to remember, too fast a pace to turn it on and off and 
tune it in the elapsed time of one contact. No way would I leave it on while 
running. I'm good at using the existing controls to do what I have to do to dig 
a signal out.

The trend in contesting is going *away* from having your hands on the radio. I 
suspect that APF might be too much of a hands-intensive tool when you're at 80 
Q's per hour or higher.

I would be willing to bet that if you polled FT-1000 contesters that a vast 
majority of them do not use APF *during a contest*. Of course, now I'll get a 
whole slew of responses to the contrary, but I'll stand by my comment about the 
majority.

So I am reading with interest, although discussion of APF in the context of 
contesting, stations calling off frequency, etc., is not relevant to me, nor, I 
suspect, to many others.

Al  W6LX