Don Wilhelm wrote: "If your main concern is about the "knob and menu twiddling" folks at a multi-operator situation, consider the locking function for mic gain, compression and power that are available in the PWR SET menu. It will not prevent total disaster, but can help with the basic settings for those parameters."
The main problem with what you suggest Don is that there are a couple of K3 owners that do show up for our FD, and while they are familiar with the settings, they also know enough to "un-lock" my rig, and adjust it as they are familiar, operate for a while and not re-lock it up. The next operator will sit down and start "twiddling"..... Two years in a row, when I got up in the morning, my K3 was totally "locked up" (would not transmit, most buttons not responding) and turning power off and back on did not correct the problem. Fortunately (and I recomend this to everyone here) I saved all my parameters in the K3 utility, and just hooked my laptop up and re-installed everything which only took a few moments and I was up and running again. That is a real plus of the Elecraft products. The two main things I see ops do, is crank the power to the max (over 100 Watts) or crank the mic gain too high. I always use the MON function in SSB, and I try to set the level close to what I hear when just talking (how you hear yourself). Some ops don't like to use that or are freaked out by the slight echo produced by the digital processing (wanting it turned off). So those are 3 things to make clear in a presentation for un familiar ops. There had been discussions here multiple times, and I don't want to start a big long tirade on the same topic, but I really think it would be a good idea that once the rig is "locked" that a 3 or 4 digit code would be needed to un-lock. That way, if a K3 owner wants my rig unlocked, I would know about it, and be aware to re-lock it if the guest op doesn't do it. 73 de -- John Fritze Jr K2QY AARA president 2013 ACACES secretary 2013 Albany County RACES Radio Officer ARES ENY DEC Northern District ARES Albany County EC Hudson Div. Asst. Director Twitter: @k2qy K3, P3, KPA500, K2, KX3 owner ______________________________________________________________ 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
