[Elecraft] K3 - Ergonomics

[Mike Harris]

Good day,

This must be a fairly recent thing, wanting all front panels to be the 
same except for the name.  Over the years I've gone down the route of: 
Heathkit RA1 RX + HB TX, National NCX5 tcvr, FT101, Racal kit whilst in 
Antarctica, TS120V, Marconi and Eddystone equipment at the salt mine, 
nothing common between the lot of them except that the knobs turn and 
the switches switch.  QRT 10 years.  Returned in 2000 and built a K2 and 
eventually progressed to a K3 so quite used to the Elecraft format. 
However, I must say that I don't like the K3 soggy rubber buttons 
compared to the nice tactile click of the K2's.

I thought that as big brained mammals we had the ability to learn and 
adapt or have the past couple of million years been waisted.  We 
certainly seem to have evolved and discarded the "read the manual" gene, 
or is that just a man thing.

Regards,

Mike VP8NO

On 03/04/2014 10:13, Gary Gregory wrote:
> Beauty is in the eye of the beholder somebody once told me!
> Performance to me IS everything....eye candy has never helped in a pileup.
>
> Just my nickels worth
>
> Gary
> Vk1ZZ