Not only is it inconsiderate to other operators, you run the risk of damaging your K3 if your antenna happens to become defective. The K3 is a transceiver, not a swept SWR analyzer!
73, Tom - W4BQF -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brendan Minish Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 7:56 AM To: Thomas Horsten Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [K3] Reconfiguring band boundaries On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 11:45 +0000, Thomas Horsten wrote: > > So I'd like to change the band limitations to lock the unallocated > sections out and avoid accidentally transmitting outside the licenced > bands. For example, I sometimes hit "TUNE" and scan up and down the > band to make sure that the SWR is reasonable across the entire band, PLEASE DON'T do this, It's VERY inconsiderate to other band users. there is already plenty of QRM on the bands. -- 73 Brendan EI6IZ ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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

