>>> So, is this a good problem statement? Negative.
This may be hard to grasp if you have never used an IC756p 775dsp, or OMNI VI+. The object is to have single press access to a desired band, on the last freq and mode you used - without ever needing to specifically perform a "save" operation of that frequency and mode in the past. The rig is smart enough to know anytime that you leave a band using memory recall or FREQ ENT, to store the last band's freq, mode, and filter settings for single button recall later. The "stacking" art of the idea happens when the rig is smart enough to save (for example) the last 3 places you were on 10 meters, without you ever having to press a button. For example, the first press of the 10 meter button would call up 28.010 CW 500hz, the second press, 28.400 usb, and the third press, 29.600 FM with PL and negative offset - if these were the last three spots on 10 meters where you were operating. You never have to press "save", you have an automatic "bread crumb" trail of all the most recent places you've been [Elecraft] K3 Band changing...Devils Advocate... Brian Lloyd brian-wb6rqn at lloyd.com Sat May 31 13:17:24 EDT 2008 Previous message: [Elecraft] K3 Band changing...Devils Advocate... The biggest problem with all of this is that different manufacturers have given different names to the same thing and the same name to different things. We can talk about "band stacking registers" (no clue as to what those do even tho' I have them in my Icom rig), "memories," etc., until we are blue in the face but the real question is, "what is the goal of this feature?" When designing computer networking equipment my customers used to drive me nuts with requests for various features they had seen in other products. After much poking and prodding I would usually find out that it was some feature that someone else had been sold upon by another vendor. Getting people to tell me what problem they were trying to actually solve was like pulling teeth. OTOH, once I found out what problem they were trying to solve, it was usually quite easy to do that AND incorporate it with something else to make the whole thing simpler for everyone. So here is my guess at what people are trying to accomplish. As I tune across the band I often hear a signal that sounds interesting, e.g. a station in QSO that I want to go back to or a pile- up I don't want to try to deal with now, but I don't want to stop there. I want to keep going. So usually I quickly scribble the frequency on a piece of paper but lately I have taken to use the VFO A/ B to "remember" the frequency in VFO B while continuing to tune with VFO A (not much use when working split). So I think what people are asking for is a way to hit a single button to drop the frequency, mode, and filter setting in to temporary memory that will remember the last n (2? 3? 10?) button pushes. Then you can move through these by pushing some kind of "go-to-previous/go-to-next" button. That way you can immediately jump back to something you had previously heard. (I like the idea of a knob myself but a forward/back toggle works too.) I don't know that I would get all excited about that -- heck, I think that there are already WAY to many features on most radios and all the "features" make operation confusing -- but I can imagine someone wanting to do this, especially during a contest. So, is this a good problem statement? -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com P.S. -- Pet peeve -- radios with a plethora of computer features but crappy RF hardware. Now the K3 may be well on the way to the "plethora of useless features" but at least it has a great RF deck. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] 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
