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

[Phil Wheeler]

Are you suggesting that such notifications appear 
on the LCD display, that the K3 assess your 
behavior and show it to you? :-)

Phil W7OX

On 2/18/15 9:46 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
> With all due respect, however......
>
> There are two times during a contest when I can get tripped up with
> SPLT or LINK or anything else that is not a firm habit or totally
> rote:
>
> STUPID -- my usual state after 24 hours with only scattered sleep,
> worsened by pileups not there to keep me energized and rates gone down
> and having to slog it out. Nothing fixes STUPID except 8 uninterrupted
> hours of sleep and cranial transplants. No flashy, whizzy change on
> the panel display will fix STUPID.
>
> LAZY -- That's when I get on because there's nothing else to do, I'm
> sleepy but can't go to sleep. More to the point, my basic attitude is
> irritated, irritated at whatever. Anything that bothers me is someone
> else's fault. My wife leaves me alone when I'm like that. I try not to
> write emails when I'm like that. I screw up SPLT because I'm not
> paying attention, because I don't want to pay attention. No flashy,
> whizzy change on the panel display will fix LAZY.
>
> DISTRACTED -- That's when there's more than one thing going on. That
> would be radio plus whatever. The whatever's are around all the time,
> need to scratch my b*tt, a bird flies past the window, a dog barks,
> multi/multi contest and the rates are down and the other ops are
> sending limericks around on the MM network. DISTRACTED is something we
> all need to manage, and don't want to, see LAZY. No flashy, whizzy
> change on the panel display will fix DISTRACTED.
>
> PAYING ATTENTION is the owner's responsibility. No one else's.
>
> SOME things would fix what seem, by the greater experience in Elecraft
> owner land, to be natural born trip hazards. Like guard rails to
> minimize the damage when a driver runs off the road, but the driver is
> still responsible.
>
> Could be an option to flash the delta f LED, but that is as far as I'd
> go. But even then after a time people will even tune out the flashing
> delta f LED. I normally do NOT perceive the flashing TX LED while I'm
> operating. Flashing TX LED is normal, and my mind has tuned out
> normal, looking listening for what's different, like the sound and
> smell of the Sabre-Tooth Tiger, back in my cave man days.
>
> The effect of flashy, whizzy change on the panel display will last
> until the subconscious human brain figures out that flashy, whizzy
> change on the panel display is NORMAL, and then the subconscious will
> tune it out, so it can listen for the Sabre-Tooth Tiger.
>
> 73, Guy