[Elecraft] New K4 beta software available, release R34.Beta2

2023-07-27 Thread Wayne Burdick
A new beta release is available that corrects some issues identified with the 
previous beta. See release notes below.

Once again I'd like to thank our field testers, who willingly endure 
(enthusiastically embrace?) a long series of official regression tests.

73,
Wayne
N6KR


==
== R34.BETA2 ===
==

July 25, 2023


NEW FEATURES


- ADDED "TX MONITOR METHOD, VOICE" menu entry: When this menu entry is set to 
"Fast", all speech processing effects and delays are removed from the voice 
monitor.

- UPDATED BUILT-IN OPERATING MANUAL TO REV C29: This edition includes a number 
of corrections suggested by K4 users. (Special thanks to N6TV for detailed 
suggestions.)


-
BUG FIXES
-

- MSG REPEAT TRUNCATION FIXED: Previously, repeating a message with more than 
24 characters would result in truncation of some portion of the message. 
Messages can now be up to 60 characters.

- ELIMINATED "MOTORBOATING" (4 Hz cycling of Tx when MIC gain = 80).

- ELIMINATED VOICE MODE POWER SPIKES: Previously, asserting PTT could lead to a 
brief spike in output power ahead of any normal transmit audio.

- XVTR CONFIGURATION: Transverter configurations are now correctly maintained 
after software updates.

- XVTR QUICK MEMORIES: These now function correctly.

- DVR "NO RECORDED MESSAGE" bug fixed.

- DVR VOICE MESSAGE PLAYBACK CLICKS: The beginning and ending of buffers are 
now truncated by 21 ms to help mask any mic clicks recorded in the message.

- DVR CHAINING: Sometimes when chaining multiple messages, one of them may not 
have played, but the K4 would have stay keyed up for the remaining time as if 
it were playing.


---
FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS
---

- KY command no longer inserts spaces unexpectedly (example: KY A;KY A; now 
sends AA not A A). RELATED NOTE: The KY command has a 60 character limit. Any 
KYR command used for MSG RPT operation has a 60 character limit for repeat. If 
your message is longer than 60 characters, then MSG RPT may not behave as 
expected.

- KYW command now always waits before processing the next command (example: 
KS10;KYW A;KS20;KYW B;FT1;).

- RX; command can now kill TX during a KYW wait command.

- Added support for MENU toggle,incr,decr commands ( MEnnn./; MEnnn.-; MEnnn.+; 
)  Toggle command behaves the same as decrement on non-binary menu entries.

- UP/DN command: Encoder simulation/emulation performance improved.

- External command performance improved: May help resolve "lag" that appeared 
in R34.B1 compared to R33 with external host applications.





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Re: [Elecraft] WSJTX ON A MAC

2023-07-27 Thread Richard Gilley
Thank you all for the quick reply and suggestions.  Good work as all is well.

The CONFIG.PTT was set to other than OFF-OFF, made the change in settings 
ERR-PTT no longer an issue.

Following up on the Notes Guide and will make those changed also as I was 
getting the “Unable to creat shared memories ….” On a MAC M1.

Again thank you all for your kind replies.

R Gilley
AD1G

> On Jul 27, 2023, at 8:10 AM, Richard Ferch  wrote:
> 
> ERR PTT often means that CONFIG:PTT-KEY in the K3 is set to RTS-something
> (or DTR-something), and something in the computer is activating RTS (or
> DTR) at the time the radio is powered up.
> 
> If this is the cause, a simple solution for this is to set CONFIG:PTT-KEY
> to OFF-OFF (or OFF-DTR if you want to use DTR for CW keying), and in your
> radio control software (WSJT-X and any other programs you use for radio
> control) use CAT for PTT control.
> 
> 73,
> Rich VE3KI
> 
> AD1G wrote:
>> ...  I have receive and Tx ok but I also have  ERR PTT displayed. ...
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Re: [Elecraft] WSJTX ON A MAC

2023-07-27 Thread Richard Ferch
ERR PTT often means that CONFIG:PTT-KEY in the K3 is set to RTS-something
(or DTR-something), and something in the computer is activating RTS (or
DTR) at the time the radio is powered up.

If this is the cause, a simple solution for this is to set CONFIG:PTT-KEY
to OFF-OFF (or OFF-DTR if you want to use DTR for CW keying), and in your
radio control software (WSJT-X and any other programs you use for radio
control) use CAT for PTT control.

73,
Rich VE3KI

AD1G wrote:
> ...  I have receive and Tx ok but I also have  ERR PTT displayed. ...
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