[Elecraft] KAT500 operation?

[Phil Hystad]

Yes, I did see the smiley and knew you were making a joke.

But, it was a valid rhetorical question since there are obviously a 
number of people who do not always read the release notes.

- phil from Kirkland



On Jun 15, 2014, at 7:17 AM, Phil Wheeler <w7ox at socal.rr.com> wrote:

> It was a joke, son: Didn't you see the smiley, Phil?
> 
> And regarding the situation in question:
> To enable automatic KAT500 VFO tracking:
>       - Locate the K3's CONFIG:KAT3 menu entry,
>       - Tap '1' until you see "KAT500Y". (The other selection is "KAT500N", the default, which turns VFO tracking off.)
> I did check and my K3 was configured correctly. There are so many configuration settings that it was worth a check, though my system has been functioning just fine.
> 
> 73, Phil
> 
> On 6/14/14, 9:35 PM, Phil Hystad wrote:
>> On Jun 14, 2014, at 5:27 PM, Phil Wheeler <w7ox at socal.rr.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Phil,
>>> 
>>> Who reads release notes? :-)
>>> 
>> Actually, I always read the release notes, you learn things that often are never written up anywhere else.  Or, as in this case, when release notes also double as documentation for a new function -- sort of a mini pre-release of formal documentation to be updated.
>> 
>> I also always read the Preface of books, all books.  On some technical books, I peruse the index because often times there are little jewels of information hidden away in the index.  An index is not just a list of words referenced in the book -- it contains nifty cross-references and often times other terms that of related information.
>> 
>> And, when I read technical books (usually Physics and Math) I study the background of the author.  Sometimes, if Physics, I am reading some of their published papers (I am a member of APS primarily to gain access to physics research papers).
>> 
>> Yes, I do read release notes and many times I even print them out and include in my notebook collection of things about the Elecraft rigs.
>> 
>> 73, phil, K7PEH
>> 
>> P.S. I usually do not read the actual user documentation before trying out things though.  I need to get better at that.
>> 
>> 
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