[Elecraft] [K3] Reconfiguring band boundaries

[Ken Roberson]

Hello All,
I see nothing wrong with a utility program that would allow band edge limits or even in band limits if one liked .

73 all Ken K5DNL

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--- On Thu, 3/17/11, Thomas Horsten <thomas at horsten.com> wrote:

> From: Thomas Horsten <thomas at horsten.com>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [K3] Reconfiguring band boundaries
> To: n5ge at n5ge.com
> Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011, 7:43 PM
> Ok, if you insist on missing the
> point be my guest. But please read my
> last post again, with your eyes open.
> 
> 
> On 18 March 2011 00:31,  <n5ge at n5ge.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Scanning with the key down is a very bad practice.
>  Don't do it!
> >
> > It is your responsibility to keep within your licensed
> band limits, so I believe
> > that request is frivoless.
> >
> > Now if you had a license that allowed you to transmit
> outside the limits of your
> > licensed bands such as the members on the Military
> Afilliate Radio System (MARS)
> > here in the US it is a valid request which Elecraft
> will accomodate you with,
> > but you are still expected to know your licenses band
> limits, especially when
> > testing your equipment.
> >
> > Tom
> > N5GE
> >
> > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:45:19 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I sent a question about this to Elecraft support,
> but I didn't get a
> >>reply so let me try the community..
> >>
> >>I've got a K3, serial no. 4208, and I would like to
> change it's band
> >>settings so that it will match my UK licence.
> Currently, the "band
> >>end" limitations are not correct for my region.
> >>
> >>For example, it will transmit on the section of the
> 80m band above
> >>3800 that's not allocated in the UK, and the same
> for 40m at 7200 and
> >>above.
> >>
> >>So I'd like to change the band limitations to lock
> the unallocated
> >>sections out and avoid accidentally transmitting
> outside the licenced
> >>bands. For example, I sometimes hit "TUNE" and scan
> up and down the
> >>band to make sure that the SWR is reasonable across
> the entire band,
> >>in this mode the VFO isn't displayed, but if I hit
> a programmed-in
> >>band limit it stops by itself, but this doesn't
> prevent me from
> >>transmitting out-of-band at 40m and 80m for
> example, because the upper
> >>limit is not correct for my location and licence.
> >>
> >>Is there a way to reprogram this? It seems to me it
> should be a simple
> >>firmware tweak.
> >>
> >>Any help/pointers would be appreciated!
> >>
> >>73, Thomas 2E0ETT
> >>K3 # 4208
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