[Elecraft] K3 Wish List - XIT tell-tale

[Tom Boucher]

I guess Elecraft are now beyond wanting to make relatively minor changes to the K3 as it is now a mature product, but how about this? On two occasions recently I have been in QSO with a weak distant station on 160 or 80 and a very loud EU has come up on the same frequency with a QRL? On my reply of 'R Pse QSY' the other station ignores me and begins a long and loud CQ thus wiping out the one I'm trying to work. Both times I established that the interfering station was using a K3 and had inadvertently left the 'XIT' function on, thus transmitting on a different frequency to that he was listening on. 

The yellow 'delta f' tell-tale LED is there to tell you that either the RIT or XIT function is on, but if you are already using the RIT function, there is nothing to tell you that XIT is also on. Would it be a simple firmware mod to make the lamp flash on and off when XIT is active?

73
Tom G3OLB