Greg wrote:
I'll bring this with Wayne. If he approves I'll put it on the update list.
The request will be for a menu option to swap the SUB and REV functions.
But remember there won't be an icon to indicate the status. So once you set
it - it's up to the user to remember.
Sorry, that isn't what I was suggesting.
As far as I can tell, the SUB button is completely dead until the KRX3
is installed. My suggestion was to put that wasted button to use in
radios that don't have the KRX3, by making *both* SUB and REV do exactly
the same.
The difference between the two buttons is their location. REV is good
for two-handed tuning, but as Paul identified, a convenient one-handed
'hold to reverse' function is vital for radios that don't have a second
receiver. The SUB button would add that convenience.
When the KRX3 is installed, the SUB button has to go back to its labeled
function - and that's fine too, because the 'hold to reverse' function
is hardly needed at all (the FT-1000 doesn't even have it).
Swapping SUB and REV is a totally different issue... and I can't see
much reason for wanting that.
73 from Ian GM3SEK
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What a great idea!!! :-)
Our messages crossed.
73, doug
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:33:12 +0000
From: Ian White GM3SEK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Paul Christensen wrote:
>> I also find it is much easier to hold the REV button and tune the
>>VFO with one hand when working split on the Omni-VI than the K3.
>
>That's one K3 limitation that I have not experienced with most other
>transceivers. Of all the panel buttons, the placement of the REV
>button is probably the most critical. Other controls maybe touched up
>periodically but when you're working split with a paddle in one hand,
>split mode requires a very ergonomic one-hand operation. I would have
>preferred the K3's REV button placed either in place of the red Freq.
>Entry button so that the right index finger can be used while using the
>thumb and other fingers to find the Dx stations listening frequency --
>or in the alternative, placement of the REV button on the lower left of
>the main VFO so that the right thumb is used. I am right-handed so I
>am naturally biased.
>
>The Ducie guys with their K3s never ran into this dilemma as the DX
>station. It manifests only for the mere mortals trying to work the DX
>station. Of course, when the sub-receiver is offered, this all becomes
>moot point but not everyone will want the optional sub-rx.
>
A useful feature for K3s that don't have the sub-receiver would be to
duplicate the REV function on the SUB button.
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