It's hard to get used to "magic buttons", but that's what enough people want so Elecraft supports it.
Us "old school" types are used to throwing a switch that does what it's labeled and expect nothing else to happen. If I change the mode switch from SSB to CW and then change bands, I expect the mode to still be CW, no matter what I selected for that band last time I operated there. The same goes for turning the rig off, then on again. But then most of us who stumble over that aren't focused on saving a few milliseconds in a contest or chasing a DX pileup by having the K3 "remember" our last setup for that band. TX TEST is a particular issue because it's like a MODE. And MODE is sticky. If you turn the rig off in SSB, when you turn it on again it will still be in SSB. Even if one selected ALT (on the other end of the MODE switch from TEST) to reverse sidebands, that will be remembered through a power cycle, but not TEST on the other end of the same switch. So I've learned that when I turn the rig on or I change anything, such as the band, I check *everything* to make sure I'm transmitting using the right mode on the right antenna, etc., and confirm the SWR and RF output are good while thinking "Welcome to the 21st Century" Hi! 73 Ron AC7AC ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
