[WriteLog] K3 DVR

[Mike Heideman]

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