So set a PF Key to toggle modes. How hard is it to tap a button? How you gonna execute the Macro anyway?
Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill > On Dec 7, 2016, at 8:57 PM, Alan Bloom <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 12/07/2016 05:11 PM, Alan Bloom wrote: >> I think all you have to do is QSY, switch to tracking mode to center the >> display and then switch back to fixed mode. > > I should have actually tried it before I opened my big mouth. :=) That works > when sending commands manually but not in a macro. > > The problem seems to be that the K3 is not done processing the QSY command > before the P3 fixed-tune commands occur. It is as though the fixed-tune > commands happened before the QSY rather than after. > > I confirmed that by putting a loooooooooooooooooong string of semicolons > after the FA command to add a delay. About 225 semicolons seems to work > reliably on my unit. With these two macros: > > FA00007000000;;;;;;;; <225 total semicolons> ;;;#FXT0;#FXT1; > FA00007290000;;;;;;;; <225 total semicolons> ;;;#FXT0;#FXT1; > > I can switch back and forth between the two frequencies in fixed-tune mode > and the display remains centered about the VFO A frequency. > > Admittedly that is not a very elegant solution and is not necessarily > guaranteed to always work. Another work-around is to leave out the extra > semicolons and just manually send the macro twice. The fraction of a second > pause between button presses is enough to allow the K3 time to respond. > > Alan N1AL > > > >> Alan N1AL >> >> >>> On 12/07/2016 04:34 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: >>> I think [but don't fully understand the original question either] that >>> he is in Fixed Tune mode and wants to stay there, but when he executes >>> the as-yet-undetermined macro, he wants the desired frequency in the >>> center of the screen, presumably with the edges at CF+/-[SPAN/2]. >>> >>> Eric, Wayne, and the E-crowd could solve all of this if they just >>> devised a procedural programming language for the K3/P3, wrote a >>> compiler and linker, and provided a set of thoroughly debugged DLL's. It >>> can't involve more than a few lines of code. Since Elecraft software >>> utilities are free, this would be a good deal, no? Christmas is coming >>> ... [:-)) >>> >>> 73, >>> >>> Fred K6DGW >>> - Sparks NV DM09dn >>> >>> - Northern California Contest Club >>> - CU in the Cal QSO Party 7-8 Oct 2017 >>> - www.cqp.org >>> >>>> On 12/7/2016 4:17 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: >>>> I guess I don't understand what you want to accomplish. >>>> If you want the VFO A to be in the center of the display, simply change >>>> the mode from FIXED to TRACKING. That will keep the VFO frequency >>>> centered - no macros required. >>>> >>>> 73, >>>> Don W3FPR >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> 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] > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
