Gary and all,
I'm in the same boat! But I think it's simply the fact that
on most other radios a clockwise turn increases
selectivity--makes the filter narrower. The way the K3 does
it makes sense when you think about it, but nonetheless, it
is contrary to what we have been used to doing with other
radios. To that end I guess Wayne set this control up in a
way that is counterintuitive, but only if you have been
trained (as apparently many of us have) to think the other
way. I guess I'll adapt (eventually), but it's a bit
surprising how difficult it has been to get there. The
older I get, the harder it seems to be to reprogram my
brain!
Dave W7AQK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Bartlett VE1RGB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] ON4UN has a K3?
I have been noting with great interest the comments
about which way to rotate the WIDTH control to narrow the
filters. Logic may tell you that clockwise should be
wider, but some other instinctive force greater than that
always wants me to turn it clockwise to go narrow.
Everyone up here who uses my K3 says the same thing.
At first I thought this was maybe just a Canuck thing
and I was too embarrassed to speak about it. Then I
wondered if it was my advancing age, and I didn't want to
talk about that either. Today, however, I am comforted to
know that I/we are not alone.
Now if Wayne would only reprogram the rig so that VOX
would default to OFF on shut-down, I wouldn't have to
concern myself about trying to remember to turn VOX off
myself so that the rig does not actually transmit during
the booting of the attached computer and again when the
logging program starts on next turn-on of the rig.
73,
Gary, VE1RGB, K3 #095
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] ON4UN has a K3?
The
only one I had trouble with was the WIDTH control. For
some reason I
kept expecting the filter b/w to become narrower as I
turned it
clockwise...
Same here. That's the only knob that I consistently turn
the wrong way.
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