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73 de Dick, K6KR > On Mar 31, 2014, at 19:46, Oliver Johns <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
