[Elecraft] K3 enhancement

[G4GNX]

If the guys at Elecraft don’t pick this up, I will submit it directly, but I 
also wanted to get opinions.

I have only recently acquired a K3 and due to home circumstances, I’ve not 
had time to exploit its full potential. In fact I’ve only transmitted into a 
dummy load!

In the meantime, I am still using my Icom IC7100, until I can get the shack 
moved indoors and hook everything up to my satisfaction. The jury’s out on 
whether I will eventually sell off the IC7100, because it does have many 
features that the K3 does not, but in some areas it does not perform nearly 
as well as the K3s.

Apart from the 2M, 70cm, D-STAR native capability, the IC7100 does have one 
feature that I often find useful – ‘beeps’ when I tune past the Amateur Band 
edges. It’s a small nicety which helps in my constant quest to be lazy. 
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It saves me having to stop and think “where are the band edges” on bands 
that I don’t use very much without looking them up.

So, my suggestion for small enhancement is a band-edge beeper.

I appreciate that although it’s a small ask, it may be a major programming 
headache, but hopefully worth consideration and would help to further set 
the K3 above the rest.

I also notice that if I tune way out if band, the background noise 
diminishes noticeably and I presume that the sensitivity has markedly 
decreased? The problem with using that as a band-edge marker is that you 
have to tune a long way out of band before anything noticeable happens.

73,

Alan. G4GNX