Although there are some young people coming into the hobby, a large proportion (myself included) are of the more senior variety.
I find that it is far too easy when it comes to using the K3 memories to press the "wrong" button, and overwrite something one wanted to keep. This action is normally followed by "Blast" or some similar expletive !! My tired brain cannot come up with how it might be made more difficult for this to occur, but I'm sure someone else can.. 73 Stewart G3RXQ On Thu, 29 May 2008 08:31:17 +0100, Ian J Maude wrote: > Leigh L. Klotz, Jr. wrote: >> For about the 3rd or 4th time I've tapped V->M, selected a memory (on >> of the 60m spot frequencies, the only global memories I have), rotated >> the VFO dial, and then tapped V->M again and overwrote the memory with >> the current VFO setting. >> Once the 2nd RX gets out it would be nice to get some attention paid >> to the memories; channel mode, especially for 60m but probably also >> for general use (think mobile ops; another K3 owner has suggested the >> VFO B knob for this.), making it harder to overwrite, etc. > I *totally* agree Leigh! My brain gets mixed up between the two and > this started to frustrate me so much that I have stopped using the > memories. I had set up to use band switching this way and for channel > hopping on 60m but I kept overwriting them. Please can we have a more > robust way of protecting the memories? > > 73 Ian _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
