Ah, thanks Jim and Don. While I have made some use of memories, I have not done anything with M1 through M4, and I didn't realize the first 10 are "special". That's why I hang around this list, to learn more about this great rig!!! Time for some manual reading and button playing tonight!
Thanks & 73, Chris K1AY On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Don Wilhelm <w3...@embarqmail.com> wrote: > Chris, > > My K3 is set up with a button for each band (except for 60 meters). > > Check out the manual for "Quick Memories" (Under Memory Controls) Which > use the first 10 memory slots. > I tap M>V and then tap one of the 10 keypad buttons to go to the last used > frequency, mode, etc. on the band related to that memory. > You can arrange the key number/band correlation in any manner you so > desire. > > In addition, I set up the M1 thru M4 buttons to navigate to my favorite > spot in each band. I use M1 for CW, M2 for SSB and M3 for data modes. > I leave M4 blank, but I can quickly add it to remember a frequency, mode, > etc. within the band if I think I may want to return to it after tuning > away. > > For 60 meters, I have 5 memories set for channel hopping, and normally > when I tap the M>V button, that sequence of 5 channels comes up, and > tapping M>V again puts me on 60 meters with channel hopping active, so I > can change from one channel to another with the VFO knob. See Channel > Hopping in the manual. > > So I do have band buttons on my K3. Only rarely do I use the BAND up/dn > buttons. > > > On 8/6/2015 3:40 PM, Chris Hallinan wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Greg <n...@windstream.net> wrote: >> <snip> >> >> A larger cabinet would allow bandswitch buttons labeled as such and >> > > -- Life is like Linux - it never stands still. ______________________________________________________________ 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
