[Elecraft] Suggestion for the K4

[Doug Turnbull]

Gary,
    This might be fine for the USA market but might well be problematic and
complicating for overseas markets.    Maybe the US market is so large this
does not matter but I doubt this.    What is one man's improvement could be
another's curse.     The user interface needs to be kept straightforward and
thus not overly complex.

    Fred Cady, KE7X is not with us these days to give a second and perhaps
more explanatory manual for all of us to reference.

                      73 Doug EI2CN

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[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary Smith
Sent: 01 November 2019 19:56
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] Suggestion for the K4

Something I'd mentioned earlier that would 
be good for the K3 will also apply on the 
K4 as well: Operating permissions per 
band. Perhaps an option for license class 
operating permissions. Select to engage 
the option for General and you will always 
be 100% operating properly as a General. 
An Extra uses the radio, select Extra and 
forget it. 

For example, the band segments contain 
different frequencies in the US for 
different classes/modes of license. To 
have a user selectable option in config to 
prevent a General from Tx in an extra 
segment would be an asset. 
Likewise this would prevent an Extra from 
inadvertently operating a mode outside 
their permission.
Another reason if you allow a Technician 
operator to use your radio say at FD, they 
might be unused to your radio and this 
would prevent them from going outside 
their permissions.

To be able to select per band where you 
are allowed to transmit & the mode 
permissions would allow anyone in the 
world to configure their K4 properly to 
meet their country's band plan.

73,

Gary
KA1J
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