wayne burdick wrote > Hi Rick, > > Good question. Based in part on a survey of potential users, we chose to > put the RIT/XIT knob at bottom right -- also a traditional location, one > that matches that of the K3/K3S/KX2/KX3. VFO B is less often used in > practice. That said, the radio is only 4.5" tall and both knobs are very > comfortably used in these locations. > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR
I had earlier posted my surprise that the VFO B tuning knob wasn't adjacent to the VFO knob. That's been a "typical" location for many years across many radios. Yaesu's FT1000D and FT1000MP Mark V, Ten-Tec Orion, Icom IC-7800, etc. From my perspective, the location in the lower right is more convenient for tuning VFO B (transmit frequency) with dual receive to locate where the DX station is listening in split operations. Granted, with a KPOD, the location of VFO B tuning becomes moot as tuning control is at my fingetrtips. But absent a KPOD, reaching up isn't quite as convenient and you can't rest your wrist on the desk to tune. If I were designing the radio, I'd move the VFO B knob down to the lower right, use a larger knob, put RIT immediately above that, and move the 4 buttons up where the VFO knob is currently located. 73 Lou, W0FK ----- St. Louis, MO "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." Albert Einstein -- Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ ______________________________________________________________ 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
