R34.BETA4 corrects some issues identified with the previous beta. Thanks for
your patience as we've cleaned up all the loose ends during the present cycle.
We're hoping to take R34 to production status after verification of current
changes.
The release notes below include details on R34 beta releases 1, 2, 3, and 4.
73,
Wayne
N6KR
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== R34.BETA4 ==
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Sept. 1, 2023
NEW FEATURES
- SUPPLY OVER-VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT: If the K4's supply voltage is found to be
excessive, an alert will be displayed. If the condition persists, the radio
will be powered off for safety purposes. Note: Max supply voltage is specified
as 15 V.
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BUG FIXES
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- "NO RECORDED MESSAGE" BUG: When doing AF RECord, this message would be
displayed if the recording filled the 90-second buffer.
- MESSAGE CHAIN/REPEAT FIX: CW/FSK/PSK chained and repeated messages are now
correctly spaced.
- DETECTION OF ESC ON LOCAL KEYBOARD: With a local keyboard plugged into the K4
for TX text entry, the ESC key now properly terminates messages.
- DIV LED now turns on if diversity is in effect at power-on.
- SOFTWARE UPDATE FIX: 'Check for Updates' now correctly updates all release
selections with the latest revision numbers.
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== R34.BETA3 ==
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August 7, 2023
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BUG FIXES
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- TRANSMIT STATUS INFORMATION FIXED: Previously, in some cases power output
would be displayed incorrectly, e.g. showing a nonzero value during receive.
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FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS
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- RU/RD COMMANDS: These encoder up/down simulation commands now work when the
RIT/XIT offset knob is assigned to an alternate function.
- ADDED FC COMMAND VARIANT: The existing "FC;" command centers the panadapter.
You can now provide an offset of up to +/- 9 Hz, e.g. "FC-5000;". This
might be useful when optimizing the panadapter presentation for a given band
segment. NOTE: Nonzero panadapter offsets do not apply to tracking mode.
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== R34.BETA2 ==
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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.
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BUG FIXES
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- 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 transmitter when MIC gain = 80).
- ELIMINATED VOICE MODE POWER SPIKES: Previously, asserting PTT could lead to a
brief spike in output power ahead of 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 radio would have stay keyed up for the remaining time as
if it were playing.
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FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS
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- 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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== R34.BETA1
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June 30, 2023
NEW FEATURES
- AGC SPEED SETTINGS: AGC speed (slow/fast) is now
