You’re right Doug. Not everyone is in America, and not everyone has to follow American rules, regulations or licenses. There is a world outside the states.
Keep it simple ….. Regards Andy, G8TQH > On 1 Nov 2019, at 21:22, Doug Turnbull <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gary, > This might be fine for the USA market but might well be problematic and > complicating for overseas markets. Maybe the US market is so large this > does not matter but I doubt this. What is one man's improvement could be > another's curse. The user interface needs to be kept straightforward and > thus not overly complex. > > Fred Cady, KE7X is not with us these days to give a second and perhaps > more explanatory manual for all of us to reference. > > 73 Doug EI2CN > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Smith > Sent: 01 November 2019 19:56 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Elecraft] Suggestion for the K4 > > Something I'd mentioned earlier that would > be good for the K3 will also apply on the > K4 as well: Operating permissions per > band. Perhaps an option for license class > operating permissions. Select to engage > the option for General and you will always > be 100% operating properly as a General. > An Extra uses the radio, select Extra and > forget it. > > For example, the band segments contain > different frequencies in the US for > different classes/modes of license. To > have a user selectable option in config to > prevent a General from Tx in an extra > segment would be an asset. > Likewise this would prevent an Extra from > inadvertently operating a mode outside > their permission. > Another reason if you allow a Technician > operator to use your radio say at FD, they > might be unused to your radio and this > would prevent them from going outside > their permissions. > > To be able to select per band where you > are allowed to transmit & the mode > permissions would allow anyone in the > world to configure their K4 properly to > meet their country's band plan. > > 73, > > Gary > KA1J > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
