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Re: [WriteLog] K3 DVR

To: "'Robert .'" <woodr90@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] K3 DVR
From: "Randy Thompson K5ZD" <k5zd@charter.net>
Reply-to: k5zd@charter.net
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 16:12:51 -0000
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The section heading in the ini file needs to be different.

[Elecraft_K3_commands]
Macro_10=SWT21;



> -----Original Message-----
> From: WriteLog [mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Robert .
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2017 4:03 PM
> To: Mike Heideman
> Cc: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] K3 DVR
> 
> 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.h
> > tml
> >
> > 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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