Brian,
While I see your point clearly, I'm not sure it holds up
under what has been the "convention" just about forever. At
first blush it does seem to be contradictory. Yes, the band
numbers actually do go down, rather than up, as frequency
increases. However, We have always considered 20 meters,
for example, to be a "higher" band than 40 meters. We think
of 10, 15, and 20 as the "high bands", and 40, 80, and 160
as the lower bands. That's because in actuality, the
reference is not to the band number, or wavelength, being
higher, but to the "band of frequencies" (in khz and mhz),
which are indeed higher. In other words, it's just
shorthand. In fact, the term "band" is often thought of,
not just in terms of wavelength, but in terms of frequency.
If you ask someone what "band" they like to operate on, for
example, they commonly respond with a frequency reference,
like 7 mhz. Also, I'd be willing to bet that you yourself
refer to 20 or10 meters as a high band, and not a low band,
when you are making a comparison to the lower frequency
bands.
In any event, you aren't going to convince very many people
to change their ways at this point. Whether it's totally
logical or not, it is the commonly accepted convention. And
it's the accepted reference world-wide. So, unfortunately,
you are Don Quixote at the windmill! Just imagine if ON4UN
had to issue an apology to the world for having mis-titled
his classic antenna book about "Low Band DXing". Just about
everything between the covers is about 40, 80, and 160
meters!
Good try, but no sale!
Dave W7AQK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Alsop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Band button
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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