I am curious as to why the volume control was moved from the traditional / conventional 'lower row' to the 'next row up' position. ----------------------------------------
My thought was that it was a concession to the needs of the contesters, since RF Gain gets "ridden" all night long and the AF gain not so much if the AGC is working right. For casual operators it doesn't much matter. I added another request tonight to Wayne's ever growing list, to allow the M1 to M4 (plus the REC) key to be instant BAND sets. In setup you would specify that the last frequency used on (example 40 meters) is to be called up on the VFO A when M1 is TAP'd for example. Setup for the M1 key would allow any of the available bands to be assigned to M1, if it was not being used for a voice/cw memory. Single touch band changes have become such a crutch for my operation, I hate to see the K3 without it. The other option discussed was M->V then touch one of the quick memory keys and enable in setup so that the memory tracks the VFO. That's another great way to get to your band but with two key presses so that would be my second choice but still quite fine. Anything is better than laying on the BAND button or calling up a stale memory every time. This is my "pet" issue, I'm sure everyone has their own, which ones to implement and in which priority is just one more privilege in the world of Eric and Wayne (and the software company I work for). ;-) [Elecraft] New K3 front panel changes Steve Jackson kz1x at yahoo.com I am curious as to why the volume control was moved from the traditional / conventional 'lower row' to the 'next row up' position. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com