Last year I was in charge of our GOTA station. I was told, "We'll have a K2 for you." Well, I'd never used a K2 so I downloaded the manual from the Elecraft site and printed it thinking that I would need to continuously refer to it like I have to with my Yaesu and Icom radios. The UI on the K2 was so well designed that the printed copy stayed in my bag. It was user friendly out of the box. And I am far from being an experienced HF operator (except on PSK).
I think the K3 is in the same category. I have CONFIG:TECH-MD turned off on my K3 and would certainly recommend that setting for field day. Having a laptop available to be able to reload the config and firmware would be prudent. My K3 will see service in the GOTA tent this year while I'm on the opposite side of the country trying to make contacts with the I-706 in my SUV. My club, WVARA, runs a QRP operation and has experienced GOTA coaches, so my bare-bones K3 should survive the event quite nicely. Cheers - Bill, AE6JV On 5/11/12 at 9:29, dm...@nexicom.net wrote: >Since it will also be used by several other ops that probably >wont know the K3 I would like to set it up as user friendly as >possible and lock out as much as possible in the menus to >prevent it from being messed up. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz |"Web security is like medicine - trying to do good for 408-356-8506 |an evolved body of kludges" - Mark Miller www.pwpconsult.com | ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
