[Elecraft] K3 -TX test not sticky
Ron D'Eau Claire
ron at cobi.biz
Fri Aug 12 14:40:17 EDT 2016
It's hard to get used to "magic buttons", but that's what enough people want
so Elecraft supports it.
Us "old school" types are used to throwing a switch that does what it's
labeled and expect nothing else to happen. If I change the mode switch from
SSB to CW and then change bands, I expect the mode to still be CW, no matter
what I selected for that band last time I operated there. The same goes for
turning the rig off, then on again.
But then most of us who stumble over that aren't focused on saving a few
milliseconds in a contest or chasing a DX pileup by having the K3 "remember"
our last setup for that band.
TX TEST is a particular issue because it's like a MODE. And MODE is sticky.
If you turn the rig off in SSB, when you turn it on again it will still be
in SSB. Even if one selected ALT (on the other end of the MODE switch from
TEST) to reverse sidebands, that will be remembered through a power cycle,
but not TEST on the other end of the same switch.
So I've learned that when I turn the rig on or I change anything, such as
the band, I check *everything* to make sure I'm transmitting using the right
mode on the right antenna, etc., and confirm the SWR and RF output are good
while thinking "Welcome to the 21st Century" Hi!
73 Ron AC7AC
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