[Elecraft] Button of no return

[Stewart]

I think that I would be rather miffed, if in the middle of a contest or worse an 
expensive DXpedition the power went off (PowerPole or not) and I found the K3 
software settings corrupted.

Most early computers monitored the power rails and shut down gracefully.

73
Stewart G3RXQ

On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 09:22:16 -0700, Phil Wheeler wrote:
> Agree re firmware fix if possible. Accidental
> button pushes do happen.
>
> I guess the two-button approach on the KX3
> precludes this particular disaster :-)
>
> 73, Phil w7ox
>
> On 3/13/14, 1:28 AM, Stewart wrote:
>> If this is the case, then surely it is something that can be easily addressed 
in
>> the F/W.
>>
>> i.e. if the TUNE function (or any other critical function) is taking place,
>> ignore presses of the Power button.
>>
>> Of course, this may not help if the PowerPole connector falls out !
>>
>> 73
>> Stewart G3RXQ
>>
>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 21:53:31 -0700, Dick Frey wrote:
>>> I was on 160m in the Tune mode on my K3. I accidently hit the Power
>>> button to exit. The display went blank. Now nothing works. Removing
>>> power and restart with
>>> Power button gets the blank screen.
>>>
>>> Turning it on with the Shift/LO knob depressed brings up the meter and
>>> bandwidth legends and EE INIT but mutiple pressing of the DISP button
>>> have no effect.
>>>
>>> I tried reloading MCU but the K3 utility cannot connect to the K3 -
>>> just keeps trying different speeds.
>>>
>>> Help!
>>>
>>> Dick, K4xu
>>
>
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