Morse code legends for button pushes would probably be very useful to
those who have vision problems (I don't).
But ergonomics counts for an awful lot, too. Especially during long
sessions at the rig. Being able to access functions without
consciously searching for the buttons and then having to
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. Poof one
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
I'm actually a little more worried the TEST mode will be off when it
actually isn't. I like to bang out a few practice lines of code every
now and then just to keep the fist limbered up. It is kind of
embarrassing to open up on the air with a few stanzas from Kubla Khan
or something, thinking the
The flashing of the RF power meter on the LCD display is a very solid clue
to me that the rig is making RF!
Ron AC7AC
-Original Message-
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
Morse code legends are cool. I always kinda dug that the kenwood would
beep the first char of the mode that you just set things to. Now that
I'm starting to learn code a little better I start to like them more and
more. I'd put them at VERY low priority but do have to admit they're
more of a
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
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