[Elecraft] PIN for K3??

[Bill Conkling]

Scott, 

Which is it?  I've read your post on at least two different lists.....

Do you want to prevent a thief from using your radio?  Prevent him from
stealing it, lock the door.

Do you want to keep your kids (and their friends) from messing with it?
Your own kids should know better and also, lock the door.

Or you want to keep your irresponsible club members (lids) from messing with
the settings?  As has been pointed out, Elecraft has provided a means of
'locking' the CMP, MIC GAIN, and POWER settings, and it works very well.
Use it, and a little training would go a long way to acquaint your friends
on the basics of how the radio works, and what the controls do, such as
filters, and band width.  A few experiments with the NB and NR and the NOTCH
are also well advised.  Also, a quick SAVE settings with the K3 Utility will
help if things get too far out of hand. (I loaned my K3 to a good friend a
while back, and when I got it back a couple of weeks later, he'd
re-configured it to work very muck like his OMNI VI!  I re-loaded my config
file, and was back to normal, he bought a K3.)

My K3 has been to many field day and special events and racked up thousands
of contacts with no ill affects, and the membership has become very
confident with it.  I feel certain that this has been partially responsible
for several members buying K3s and other Elecraft equipment.

But, please, "we don't need no stinkin' PINS!"

BTW: For what it's worth, my Smart phone, doesn't actually have a PIN, I
just swipe an icon across the screen, just about anyone with a half a brain
can make it work.  It' more of a nuisance than any protection.

...bill nr4c


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Dunlavey [mailto:sdunlavey at optimum.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:13 PM
To: nr4c at widomaker.com
Cc: elecraftyahoo; elecraft
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] PIN for K3??

Bill, I am not suggesting you need to &^%* unlock the *&^&$# radio every 
*&^%$ time you want to %$#* play radio... I am suggesting a way to make 
it so LIDS at club meetings or *&^% ham operators at Field Day don't do 
something they should not do... agn, just like a cell or smart phone... 
that's all... Matt, I will look into the other settings, I was not aware 
of that... TU
w2ntv