[Elecraft] K3 - Eric &Co.... Please relocate the Link/UnLink button.

[Ian White]

>> If the manual Link control is removed, Diversity would then become
the
>> easily accessible 'hold' feature of the SUB button (available if the
>> second receiver is present, otherwise having no effect).
>
>I would love having Diversity become the "easily accessible HOLD
feature of
>the SUB button", as suggested by Ian.  But "if the manual Link control
is
>removed", how would one then engage it for non-Diversity applications?
>

Even if manual link control through the SUB button is disabled, the same
functions are still available through a macro: LN1(link) or LN0
(unlink).

>
>> In normal diversity reception, the display should show the *true* VFO
B
>> frequency - reassuringly synchronized and slaved to VFO A. It should
>> only display that alternative frequency if SPLIT has actually been
>> selected.
>
>I understand Ian's point about "confusion in Diversity mode"; I
suffered from
>that the first few hundred times I used it, too.  However...I think I'd
still like to
>see where VFO B "would jump to on TX" before engaging the SPLIT button.
>For me, a better solution would be to dim the VFO B display (relative
to VFO
>A intensity) when in Diversity mode and Split has not been selected.
(I have
>no idea if that would be possible.)   

>The slowly blinking decimal point is a bit
>too subtle and requires me to stare at it far too long to be the
"right" way to
>indicate Diversity mode for me.
>

That's for sure: the blinking decimal point - or points - are far too
easily overlooked. Worse still,  without a close study of the manual
they are totally meaningless. We have just seen this embarrassingly
demonstrated at TX5K.

So please make the VFO link/sync status as obvious as possible: have the
VFO B display show the true VFO B frequency at all times - not blinking,
not blanked but simply telling the truth. (The only exception should be
after Diversity and Split have *both* been selected.) 


73 from Ian GM3SEK