With all due respect, however...... There are two times during a contest when I can get tripped up with SPLT or LINK or anything else that is not a firm habit or totally rote:
STUPID -- my usual state after 24 hours with only scattered sleep, worsened by pileups not there to keep me energized and rates gone down and having to slog it out. Nothing fixes STUPID except 8 uninterrupted hours of sleep and cranial transplants. No flashy, whizzy change on the panel display will fix STUPID. LAZY -- That's when I get on because there's nothing else to do, I'm sleepy but can't go to sleep. More to the point, my basic attitude is irritated, irritated at whatever. Anything that bothers me is someone else's fault. My wife leaves me alone when I'm like that. I try not to write emails when I'm like that. I screw up SPLT because I'm not paying attention, because I don't want to pay attention. No flashy, whizzy change on the panel display will fix LAZY. DISTRACTED -- That's when there's more than one thing going on. That would be radio plus whatever. The whatever's are around all the time, need to scratch my b*tt, a bird flies past the window, a dog barks, multi/multi contest and the rates are down and the other ops are sending limericks around on the MM network. DISTRACTED is something we all need to manage, and don't want to, see LAZY. No flashy, whizzy change on the panel display will fix DISTRACTED. PAYING ATTENTION is the owner's responsibility. No one else's. SOME things would fix what seem, by the greater experience in Elecraft owner land, to be natural born trip hazards. Like guard rails to minimize the damage when a driver runs off the road, but the driver is still responsible. Could be an option to flash the delta f LED, but that is as far as I'd go. But even then after a time people will even tune out the flashing delta f LED. I normally do NOT perceive the flashing TX LED while I'm operating. Flashing TX LED is normal, and my mind has tuned out normal, looking listening for what's different, like the sound and smell of the Sabre-Tooth Tiger, back in my cave man days. The effect of flashy, whizzy change on the panel display will last until the subconscious human brain figures out that flashy, whizzy change on the panel display is NORMAL, and then the subconscious will tune it out, so it can listen for the Sabre-Tooth Tiger. 73, Guy On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Ted Roycraft <roycr...@comcast.net> wrote: > 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. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
