[Elecraft] A way to show both "SPLIT" and "NON-SPLIT" warnings

[Ted Roycraft]

Bingo!  No amount of flashing on the K3 screen is going to correct poor 
operating habits.  Nothing can substitute for good operating practices 
which become habits.   It takes 2 seconds to check the K3 status before 
sending.  Make a habit.  If you don't do that, you won't see anything 
flashing on the screen either.

I think that one menu item that is already there that can help is "SPLIT 
SV".  Set it to "YES".

73, Ted, W2ZK

On 2/18/2015 10:17 AM, dave wrote:
>
> I dunno . . .
>
> What we are doing is attempting to address an op who is not paying 
> attention. But, if the op is not paying attention, how is any of this 
> going to have any effect? I think it is all a waste of time and effort.
>
> If someone is not paying attention, they are not paying attention, and 
> the *only* cure is for them to being paying attention to what they are 
> doing.
>
> I don't think the various band aids being discussed will help. The guy 
> is still not going to be paying attention. He is distracted by 
> something else.
>
> I would suggest that the time spent, which might well be wasted on 
> this project, be used for something more productive. The K3 is fine as 
> it is. It is the op that is the problem, not the K3.
>
> 73 de dave
> ab9ca/4
>
>
>
> On 2/18/15 9:02 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
>> Suppose we provide a menu option that, when engaged, results in this 
>> behavior:
>>
>> - If you're NOT in SPLIT: keying the rig shows "NON.SPLT" on VFO B. 
>> (A is TX in this case.)
>>
>> - If you ARE in SPLIT: keying the rig shows "SPLIT" on VFO A. (B is 
>> TX in this case.)
>>
>> So, during keying in either case, the TX frequency is still displayed 
>> (you need to know that), but the RX display is used to provide a 
>> warning.
>>
>> The time constant for these displayed messages would coincide with 
>> the change in metering from RX to TX. Thus the "NON.SPLT" or "SPLIT" 
>> would come on when you key, and stay on for at least 300 ms, the 
>> timer being retriggered each time you key. To get an idea of what 
>> that would look like, just watch the RX and TX metering scales as you 
>> key the radio.
>>
>> It's not a "flashing" message, per se, but if you were calling a DX 
>> station on the order of every few seconds, the message would come and 
>> go to get your attention.
>>
>> It has the advantage of being quite obvious since it changes the 
>> entire contents of one of the VFO displays, and both are very close 
>> to the VFO A knob, where the action is.
>>
>> Wayne
>> N6KR
>>
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