Gary and all, I believe your idea has merit. I am a K3 Novice predominantly using an Orion 2. The remote Pod of the O2 is a God Send for contesting. What I really like about it is being able to access the CW SSB memories without the need for jabbing at small buttons on the rig during the heat of a contest. I turn my pod sideways so as to keep the tuning knob out of the way. For my purposes a simple pod without many buttons or tuning encoder is more useful. I do not need the remote tune or band change buttons which are on the TT remote pod they are confusion in a contest.
I once heard of an operator who used the pod to tune from an easy chair. This I can identify with though the urge has never struck. Elecrafter would want to spend some time coming up with a pod which will best suit their wide user base. We are fortunate to have a manufacturer of strictly amateur radio equipment owned and run by hams! The service and attention is just amazing. 73 Doug EI2CN -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of rfenab...@gmail.com Sent: 05 April 2009 08:04 To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] K3 band buttons FWIW I think Elecraft would achieve a lot more if they made a Keypad Interface with "Programmable Keys" to enable users to "create" their own unique way of operating. As I see it the radio simply does not have the number of available keys/knobs to be able make a lot of features "easy" to use. I just upgraded to the latest FW and lo and behold the Squelch operation appears to be a long press of the Config button followed by a twiddle of the VFO, if this is the way it works I am not impressed, the knob states SQL/RF so I did not expect to have to use a button as well. I find all these two button presses becoming tiresome and I worry that the K3 will become to demanding to use and end up being relegated to second place in the shack. I don't want a PC running my radio and if I did I would have bought a Flex for example. I hope Elecraft are thinking about these issues as I believe that as time goes by the K3 will become just another menu driven radio that is too difficult to use daily. Gary, S/N 679 Sent via BlackBerryR from Telstra ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html