K3KO wrote:
This isn't just the K3. Other radios have the same problem. It seems to be
a mistake that persisted through the years.
The button marked "band" with up and down arrows really is frequency.
You push the up arrow and the band goes down. Press down arrow and band
goes up.
It would be nice to have this fixed in the K3. No hope for other radios.
Right now I have a white sticky label with freq on it pasted over the band
marking.
As Don said, back when dirt was young [and I can almost but not quite
remember that], everything was in wavelength. The Holy Wavelength was
600 meters. So as you went "down" in frequency, you were going "up" in
wavelength, hence 1.8 mc = 160 m = "Top Band." By the time I became
KN6DGW [1953], the bands were still noted in wavelength [and still are],
about half the people used terminology like "10 is going dead, I think
I'll head 'down' to 20," and the other half would say, "I'm going 'down'
to 10 and see if it's open." By the time I found myself on 600 meters
['56-'57], the Holy Wavelength had mostly become the Holy Frequency [500
kcs], and most everyone on the ham bands thought 10m was above 20m.
I have my K2 and K3 so it doesn't matter, but if I didn't and was
waiting for it and had a vote, I'd vote for it the way it is. For me,
"20m" is not a number on a wavelength scale, it's the name of a band,
just like the alternate "name" of 75m in the evening is "The Medical Band."
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2008 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 08
- www.cqp.org
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