These are the types of things that get new people interested in ham radio! Sometimes you can't hang over their shoulder the ENTIRE time especially when you get someone who is really enjoying things and wants to operate for a while.
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 07:42 -0500, Jim Cox wrote: > The radio cant do everything for you. Why anyone would let a "stupid user" > operate their > 2K radio at a field day site is beyond me. Jim K4JAF > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brett Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "wayne burdick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> > Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:24 AM > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Re: K3 Key-down on power-up [Solution?] > > > >I thought of another feature to help fix the stupid user issue. How > > about a lock that doesn't allow a band change. Such as a special way to > > use the lock button that doesn't lock one out from QSYing but doesn't > > allow them to move off of say 40 meters. We had a death to a band pass > > filter cause some one turned their equipment over to a new ham on > > another one of the stations and a feature that locks from going to > > another band could have prevented that. Also would be useful for when > > you don't have the tuner nor an external and your antenna is only good > > on one band. > > > > On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 19:51 -0700, wayne burdick wrote: > >> Dave, > >> > >> I wanted to run a possible solution past you. > >> > >> I could prevent the rig from being keyed (by any method) during the > >> first couple of seconds that it's powered up. Instead, it could detect > >> this case, and display a repeating message (something like: "KEYLINE IS > >> ACTIVE") until you either remove the source of the keying or turn power > >> off. > >> > >> Thoughts on this? > >> > >> 73, > >> Wayne > >> N6KR > >> > >> > >> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL wrote: > >> > >> > I've got my K3 set up for cw on Field Day with a laptop usb > >> > port driving a usb to serial converter. Rig control and cw > >> > keying are done over the serial cable, using the K3's > >> > built-in ability to send cw from pin 4(?) of the rs-232 > >> > cable. > >> > > >> > Everything works fine, but I got quite a scare when I turned > >> > on the K3 and it came up keyed-down 120 watts into no > >> > antenna. It seems that if the laptop is not running the > >> > logging program, rs-232 pin 4 can very well be in a key-down > >> > state. > >> > >> > >> --- > >> > >> http://www.elecraft.com > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
