Perhaps a tone-beep with each step and then a much lower or higher tone when you cycle back to the beginning. Lou WA3MIX ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Dievendorff" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Power Control Setting Steps
>I think Lee was asking for one "stateful" button. Press it once, it goes >to > the first "stop". Press it again, it goes to the next "stop". Maybe > after > three or four "stops" it cycles around. > > I am thinking of some sort of mechanism that allows successive button > presses to navigate through user-programmed sequences of settings: > > "14005, CW width 800", then > "14025, CW, width 400", then > "14070, RTTY, width 250", > "14195, USB, width 2400", > "14250, USB" etc. > > It sounds good, but for a setting that isn't clearly on the front panel > LCD > display, I think you'd probably forget where you were, so you'd end up > always pushing the one button a number of times > > You can now assign different K3 switches for different macros that have no > state. That uses up the limited supply of buttons pretty quickly, though. > > Dick, K6KR > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike > Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 1:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Power Control Setting Steps > > Lee - > > You can create a macro for each power level, and assign it to a button. I > have one that sets the power at 45 watts for use with the amp (buttton > M4), > and another to set it to 100 watts (button M1) when I don't use the amp. > And > then there is the tune setting. > > The K3 utility has a very fine help file on creating the macros, and > assigning to buttons. > > As the old pasta sauce ad used to say "It's in there!" > > 73, Mike NF4L > > On 3/12/2011 3:28 PM, Lee Buller wrote: >> Maybe a new feature.... >> >> A way to step through or set power out put....say at 5 - 25 - 50 - 75 >> - 100. I do like to run barefoot as much as possible, but when the dx >> shows up and I have to tune the amp (into a dummy load) I like to be >> able to switch quickly to 25 watts without cranking the knob several >> times to get to 25 watts. A button that could be programed for full >> or low power or steps in power. I hope I am getting the idea across >> here. >> >> Now I know....several guys have made T-Pads to run the full 100 watts >> out from the K3 reduce the power to the amp, but that does not work >> for me in my set up with my AL-82. I was just thinking if the >> programming could be changed or a macro could be made to step through > different power levels. >> >> Just an idea >> >> Lee - K0WA >> >> >> In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. >> If you don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it. >> If you can't find any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has >> some Common Sense. Is Common Sense divine? >> >> Common Sense is the image of the Creator expressing revealed truth in my > mind. >> - John W. (Kansas) >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email >> list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
