Don ,
I agree we think in bands. That's why the band button arrows ought to
do the right thing.
Here is the situation now:
I want to go from 20 to 10 meters. I have to press the DOWN button to
go from 10 -->20. Doesn't makes sense by any thought process.
Last I knew they still teach counting UP as 0, 1, 2, 3 ....10.... 20.
The DOWN arrow changes FREQUENCY down. That's why frequency is the
right label.
Sure it is a nit. However, more than half the time I end up going the
wrong direction because I think in bands and conventional count
directions..
73 de Brian/K3KO
Don Wilhelm wrote:
Your lexicon must be quite different than mine. In my 54 years of
association with ham radio, we have had Amateur "Bands". Why would
one want to label the device that changes between these bands as a
"frequency" switch? The VFO changes frequency, the band switch
changes bands.
You are free to re-label yours -- just don't do the same to mine.
73,
Don W3FPR
K3KO wrote:
This isn't just the K3. Other radios have the same problem. It
seems to be
a mistake that persisted through the years.
The button marked "band" with up and down arrows really is frequency.
You push the up arrow and the band goes down. Press down arrow and band
goes up.
It would be nice to have this fixed in the K3. No hope for other
radios.
Right now I have a white sticky label with freq on it pasted over the
band
marking.
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