[Elecraft] K3 Wish List - XIT tell-tale

[Jessie Oberreuter]

       It's always fabulous to hear that kind of consideration, Wayne! 
Apropos to the perfect pitch discussion a few weeks back, I suffer/enjoy 
audio/visual synesthesia, and blinking things annoy the crap out of me!


On Sun, 1 Jan 2012, Wayne Burdick wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> There are LCD icons for both RIT and XIT. XIT is rarely used, and
> you'd think that those who do use it would be motivated to keep an eye
> on both the XIT icon and the Delta-F LED. That said, I'll add to my
> list consideration of flashing the XIT icon and/or the Delta-F LED. I
> have to be careful with such changes because of unintended side
> effects and the annoyance factor. It would certainly need a menu entry
> for disabling this behavior.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
> On Jan 1, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Tom Boucher wrote:
>
>> 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
>> ______________
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