I spent a few hours trying to understand what I am seeing, and it is a case
where the assigned macros are not being remembered to their assigned PF
keys. They work the first time, but after the second PF key gets depressed
(FSK) only the SECOND one is retained in BOTH PF1 and PF. The first macro is
not assigned to PF1 hold anymore, the SECOND macro is assigned to BOTH PF1
and PF2 hold. In this case, since I have FSK as second, it's the one that is
in play on BOTH PF keys. I reversed them and got CW to be dominant. The
macros work perfect from the utility program, just as I want them to.
I did do a read to the utility program, and the macros are in the EPROM as
they were written. Only thing left is the macro assign function is being
somehow corrupted/changed.
Recently I had my K3 back to Elecraft for an FPF board replacement. I sure
hope it's not that again. I sure hope you guys have an idea. I am out of
them.
BTW, without the MN255, the display stays in menu mode. MN255 brings is back
to a normal operating display.
Thanks ...
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From: "Tom H Childers" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 3:51 PM
To: "Jim Leder (Hotmail)" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Elecraft" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Macros
I agree with Joe.
I don't use MACRO's, but I do write software that uses the K3 Command
set.
The first thing I see is that you are calling the "MN255" command in
each of the MACROs. The MN command is only needed if you are
accessing the menu to change a setting, and you are not doing any
changes to the menu, so you can remove "MN255 from your MACRO's.
The rest of the commands look OK, but I suggest you create your
MACRO's using the K3 Utility. If you do that you can test MACRO's
until they work as you want them to.
Good luck.
73,
Tom
Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
ARRL Lifetime Member
QCWA Lifetime Member
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:12:15 -0500, "Jim Leder \(Hotmail\)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
The 2 macros I use work OK since I reloaded the firmware. I tried so many
different, fancy things prior to getting messed up, I'm not sure what they
were now, but it was a lot. That's when I attempted to go back to what I
knew was OK, but they didn't work either. That's when I got desperate and
as
a last resort, reloaded the 4.60 firmware.
Here are the two ORIGINAL macros that now work once again:
CW MD3;BW0040;SWH45;MN255; /* PF1 hold */
FSK MD6;DT2;BW0050;SWH47;MN255; /* PF2 hold */
Seems something in the firmware got out of sorts by my screwing around
with
those two macros, but I don't know how.
Thanks ... 73
Jim
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From: "Tom H Childers" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 1:59 PM
To: "Jim Leder (Hotmail)" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Macros
Jim,
Can you send us the macro's you are having trouble with?
Maybe we can help you with them.
Thanks,
73,
Tom
Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
ARRL Lifetime Member
QCWA Lifetime Member
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:41:00 -0500, "Jim Leder \(Hotmail\)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
Had a situation this morning where my two macros started giving me goofy
responses, and eventually would lock up my K3. The K3 still worked OK,
and
all was cleared up with a power off/on. I couldn't get the macros to
work
consistently, no matter what I tried, including the 'soft' reset'. So, I
reloaded my firmware (4.60) and this apparently corrected the failure. I
had been toying with several different macros and wonder if my playing
around somehow fouled things up. I only have 2 macros: PF1 HOLD to put
the
rig into CW and PF2 HOLD to put the rig into FSK. These are simple
macros
(thanks K1HTV) and have been working without a hitch, until I attempted
to
get fancy.
My questions are:
Is it possible to fill up the macro memory slots, even when they appear
empty?
Is there a way to clear/reset ALL the macros without reloading the
firmware? (this seemed to fix my problem)
Additional curiosity: I was getting an FT0 on the terminal screen over
and
over of the utility program when things were fouled/locked up. Radio was
NOT in split. I do not have the SR.
The radio and macros are now working as they should, but somehow I am
sure
I messed it up somehow. Any ideas?
Thanks...
Jim Bob Buckeye
AKA
**** Jim Leder****
K8CXM since 1961
IBM retiree since 1999
There are 10 types of people in this world -- those who understand
binary
and those who don't.
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