Bingo! No amount of flashing on the K3 screen is going to correct poor
operating habits. Nothing can substitute for good operating practices
which become habits. It takes 2 seconds to check the K3 status before
sending. Make a habit. If you don't do that, you won't see anything
flashing on the screen either.
I think that one menu item that is already there that can help is "SPLIT
SV". Set it to "YES".
73, Ted, W2ZK
On 2/18/2015 10:17 AM, dave wrote:
I dunno . . .
What we are doing is attempting to address an op who is not paying
attention. But, if the op is not paying attention, how is any of this
going to have any effect? I think it is all a waste of time and effort.
If someone is not paying attention, they are not paying attention, and
the *only* cure is for them to being paying attention to what they are
doing.
I don't think the various band aids being discussed will help. The guy
is still not going to be paying attention. He is distracted by
something else.
I would suggest that the time spent, which might well be wasted on
this project, be used for something more productive. The K3 is fine as
it is. It is the op that is the problem, not the K3.
73 de dave
ab9ca/4
On 2/18/15 9:02 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
Suppose we provide a menu option that, when engaged, results in this
behavior:
- If you're NOT in SPLIT: keying the rig shows "NON.SPLT" on VFO B.
(A is TX in this case.)
- If you ARE in SPLIT: keying the rig shows "SPLIT" on VFO A. (B is
TX in this case.)
So, during keying in either case, the TX frequency is still displayed
(you need to know that), but the RX display is used to provide a
warning.
The time constant for these displayed messages would coincide with
the change in metering from RX to TX. Thus the "NON.SPLT" or "SPLIT"
would come on when you key, and stay on for at least 300 ms, the
timer being retriggered each time you key. To get an idea of what
that would look like, just watch the RX and TX metering scales as you
key the radio.
It's not a "flashing" message, per se, but if you were calling a DX
station on the order of every few seconds, the message would come and
go to get your attention.
It has the advantage of being quite obvious since it changes the
entire contents of one of the VFO displays, and both are very close
to the VFO A knob, where the action is.
Wayne
N6KR
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