Just finished installing a K144XV + K144RFLK in my older K3. Had to exchange for a KXV3a also. Went well and everything appears to work as advertised. But, let me tell you, this exercise renewed and deepened my hatred for those TMP coax connectors. I accept what Wayne says about their reliability. But, they sure are a capital P in the A to plug and unplug! Price of excellence.
Am now programming the local repeaters into the memory locations. This is not quite as tedious as manually programming a BaoFeng UV5r, but it is really close. And the BaoFeng can be programmed using a nice utility called CHIRP that lets you enter settings in a spreadsheet and then press a button to transfer them en bloc. Not so for the K3. You have to do it all by hand. Which brings me to my point. Could there be a couple of programmer's commands added to set the memories? Then maybe someone could write a nice Python program to do it with a computer, or maybe port CHIRP. Maybe something like: ZFxxx145.3205; (set frequency) ZTxxx088.5+; (set tone) ZLxxx*W1AW; (set label) where the xxx stands for memory slot 000 to 099. Also, while I'm at it, why are there only 5 slots in the label? After the "*", there are only four free. Not enough for a typical call sign, or much of anything else. Maybe that is due to memory limitations? Taking the K3 apart and putting it back together reminded me what a lovely, precision piece of equipment it really is. Amazing what fits in that little box! Thanks for reading this far. Oliver W6ODJ ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
