[Elecraft] P3 for Alan: VFO A Cursor color in FixTrack Mode - for Alan

[David Anderson]

Fred,

Thanks for the fascinating description of your monochromacy. 

I have never come across anyone with this, though did know the condition existed.

As a photographer I am conscious of colours and had an amusing incident when I had a faulty iPad display where the colours were posterised in certain shades of yellow and took it back to the shop to get it replaced under warranty. The young gentleman that looked at it declared he could not see anything wrong with it when I compared the same photo on the faulty one with another in the shop. I almost gave up then asked if I could get a female assistant to have a look and she immediately saw what I was complaining about. Of course being male he suffered from colour blindness of some kind and didn't realise it until then.

It occurred to me as I wrote that, I assume that like the days of monochrome film photography when we used yellow colour filters to emphasise the contrast of things like clouds and blue sky, that you will be see similar effects if you place different colour filters in front of the colour display of the waterfall on the P3 with your monochrome vision?

Glad that Elecraft are able to do something to make the P3 as useable as possible for those with similar conditions.


73

David Anderson GM4JJJ 

> On 8 Jan 2015, at 00:35, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
> 
> I may be the only Elecraft customer with this problem, monochromacy is extremely rare [poor choice of both Mom and Dad :-)], but other forms of defective color vision are much more common, mainly in males and most hams are male.