[Elecraft] Location of VFO B on the K4

[Bill Steffey]

I rarely use RIT/XIT...   and the B VFO  frequently....

    so after November I may HAVE to use the K-POD more than I have been.


On 5/25/2019 3:39 PM, hawley, charles j jr wrote:
> Hmmm...I'm envisioning a modular front panel where you move modules around, they plug into a common buss and then you label the modules' one line display with some macro data input to the radio. A bigger K pod with one line labels would be nice too. As long as we're dreaming...
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> Chuck KE9UW
> c-hawley at illinois.edu
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>> On May 25, 2019, at 12:00 PM, W0FK <lladerman at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> wayne burdick wrote
>>> Hi Rick,
>>>
>>> Good question. Based in part on a survey of potential users, we chose to
>>> put the RIT/XIT knob at bottom right -- also a traditional location, one
>>> that matches that of the K3/K3S/KX2/KX3. VFO B is less often used in
>>> practice. That said, the radio is only 4.5" tall and both knobs are very
>>> comfortably used in these locations.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Wayne
>>> N6KR
>> I had earlier posted my surprise that the VFO B tuning knob wasn't adjacent
>> to the VFO knob. That's been a "typical" location for many years across many
>> radios. Yaesu's FT1000D and FT1000MP Mark V, Ten-Tec Orion, Icom IC-7800,
>> etc. From my perspective, the location in the lower right is more convenient
>> for tuning VFO B (transmit frequency) with dual receive to locate where the
>> DX station is listening in split operations. Granted, with a KPOD, the
>> location of VFO B tuning becomes moot as tuning control is at my
>> fingetrtips. But absent a KPOD, reaching up isn't quite as convenient and
>> you can't rest your wrist on the desk to tune.
>>
>> If I were designing the radio, I'd move the VFO B knob down to the lower
>> right, use a larger knob, put RIT immediately above that, and move the 4
>> buttons up where the VFO knob is currently located.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Lou, W0FK
>>
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