Monty Shultes wrote: > > To stir the pot, how about a third menu mode aimed at getting the K3 on > the air so the ham user can experiment and learn its basic features while > using the radio? >
Isn't that what default settings are for? As a relatively new K3 user, I break down learning the radio into 4 levels: Level 1 - The basics (a no-brainer). Read the quick-start section of the manual, plug in your key, mic, antenna, etc. Hit POWER, turn the big knob and away you go. Level 2 - Get familiar with all the buttons for changing band, mode, filtering, etc. Set CMP/mic gain, Learn Slpit, SUB, RIT, etc. Level 3 - Start customizing the radio by programming quick band/mode changes (M>V 1-0 and M1-M4), RX/TX EQ, etc. Decode and make a RTTY QSO with your paddle (amazingly cool feature). Level 4 - Do more customizing like messing with AGC settings, programming macros, changing other Config settings. For level 4, the best resource, by far, is this forum. I don't believe many people choose another radio because the K3 is too complicated. Many other radios are bigger, more buttons, endlessly nested menus, etc. That argument reminds me of the absurd Letter to the Editor in QST a few months ago by an idiot complaining he got his license to buy an HT for emergency use only. He had no interest in ham radio otherwise and gave up because all the HTs he looked at were too complicated for him to use (I wonder if he could use a cell phone.) Barry W2UP -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Need-for-advice-was-noise-reduction-tp5808434p5812962.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
