Why not use the A/B button instead of REV when working split? No acrobatics necessary. Tap it once, tune the other frequency, tap it again and you are back where you started.
73 de ab2tc - Knut I don't have any trouble holding the REV button on my K3 with my index finger while turning the VFO A knob with my thumb. I do that a lot working DX like Ducie. Maybe it's a question of getting used to the placement of the button with a new radio. I have never used an Omni-VI, so I don't know whether its front-panel layout is easier to use or not. Just wanted to get my 2 cents worth in on this thread before it becomes accepted truth that the K3 layout is hard to use. It's plenty easy for me. 73, John, W2GW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian White GM3SEK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 12:33 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3/10 For Sale or Trade > 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. > > <snip> -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/K3-10-For-Sale-or-Trade-tp16080516p16082524.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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