Brett Howard wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 22:43 -0700, Carl Clawson wrote:
It's just too easy to miss the little blinking TX annunciator if you've left
your K3 in test mode. How about once in a while doing something more
dramatic like scrolling TX TEST across the VFO A display, or flashing the
display, or making the SWR and power meter displays flicker in some
obnoxious way, or ...
The challenge is to think of something that doesn't impair any useful aspect
of test mode.
HAHA... At FD one of the operators said... "Man I really love the way
the receiver sounds but NOBODY will come back to me". On his next
transmission I noticed that there was no RF showing up on the bar
graph. Then I noticed the flashing TX... I mentioned to him that he
was in test mode.
That's very easily done, especially by a new operator who isn't familiar
with the K3's "tap/hold" functions.
One possibility would be to flash the delta-F LED continuously, in sync
with the annunciator (as that LED's normal warning function is not
needed while in test mode).
--
73 from Ian GM3SEK
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek
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