My old and greatly inferior 756Pro had band stacking registers, and that feature essentially lets you cycle through the last three (in the case of the 756Pro) frequencies/mode with just repeated presses of the same band-select button. For example, I could set the rig to 14010 CW with a narrow bandwidth, press the 20m band-select button and set that position to 14070 USB-D with a wide bandwdith, press the 20m band-select button again and set that position to 14195 USB with a medium bandwidth, and from that point on repeated presses of the 20m band-select button would cycle through all three setups. On the 756Pro, the stacking registers were unique for each band. It was a nice feature.
73, Dave AB7E Don Wilhelm wrote: > Steve (or anyone else who knows), > > Please explain the convenience of "band-stacking" memories. I have > never used a radio with "band-stacking" memories, so I really don't know > what that means. > Is it really a 'stack' (as in programming) where one can only select the > item at the top of the stack? > If it is something different, then the term "band-stacking" should not > be used IMHO - I think it was Yaesu that first popularized the term and > I have been confused ever since. > > The K3 provides 4 random access memories for each band in the M1-M4 > buttons, and you say you want only 3, so you may use only M1-M3 if you > so choose. > > Yes, it does take a 2 button tap to retrieve the contents of any of the > M1-M4 memories, but if band-sacking memories can only retrieve the > topmost memory with any one tap, the average number of button taps > required to retrieve the desired memory with a stack depth of 3 is also > two taps. > > So please tell me that "band-stacking" is something different than a > "stack" as used in programming, and I will give up my argument and go > off on another tangent about the ills of mis-named functions on a radio. > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
