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Re: [WriteLog] K3 DVR

To: Mike Heideman <mike_heideman@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] K3 DVR
From: "Robert ." <woodr90@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 10:02:40 -0600
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At P4 station and can't get the F keys to fire the K3 DVR
K3, DVR works fine from M1 key on front panel
COM2 is used for rig control
thoughts anyone??

Version 12.06b

I export to writelog.ini
edit in
[KeyboardShortcuts]
Macro_10=SWT21;

in the message keys for SSB
%GK10

but nothing happens at K3....
Rig frequency is correctly displaying in writelog btw

73 Robert W5AJ


On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 2:58 AM, Mike Heideman <mike_heideman@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Robert, W5AJ, wrote:
> > Is there any method that will allow function key (say F1) to send
> message in
> > Bank1 M1
> > And then allow function key (say F5) to send message in Bank 2 M1
> > Without holding the REC button...
> > So the F key always defines which bank / M without issuing command to
> switch
> > banks
>
> The only control for changing K3 DVR memory banks is a toggle, either via
> the REC hold or the equivalent SWH37; sent from the computer. The K3
> Programmer's Reference documents a method for retrieving the current memory
> bank which could be used by software to conditionally switch banks,
> enabling two function keys to play back the M1 message in each of the two
> banks. Unfortunately the Writelog macros do not provide a way of retrieving
> a response to a CAT command sent to the K3.
>
> The details of how Writelog could be modified to implement this behavior
> are in this post I made in November.
>
> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/WriteLog/2016-11/msg00068.html
>
> I think that Wintest may be capable of interpreting responses to CAT
> commands which would enable the direct addressing of all 8 DVR memories.
>
> In some recent phone contests I set up Shift-F5 to toggle the DVR memory
> banks. My main purpose was so that I could occasionally throw in a longer
> CQ while Auto-CQing. This had one major drawback - since the Timed-CQ
> interval must be specified as the time between the starts of successive
> CQs, not the time between the end of one CQ and the start of the next CQ,
> the next CQ after a long CQ would start up too early, before I'd typed even
> one character of a callsign.
>
> 73,
> -Mike, N7MH
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