"There's a K3 MACRO hiding somewhere that will, upon pressing of TUNE, activate the tune function and simultaneously de-activate the KPA500 amp; and afterwards, by tapping TUNE, will re-instate the KPA500 amp to its original state before TUNE was pressed. Any ideas on this will be welcome : )"
I have no idea if it is possible to implement this with a K3 macro but I agree it's a desirable feature. In fact, I have implemented this and more in my TS-590/Elecraft controller. My "KAT500 Tune" function presents a page with selections Check, AutoTune, and Save. Pressing the button for Check sets the KAT500 key line inhibited and initiates a TS-590 TX-Tune with 5 W. Pressing the button again stops TX-Tune and re-enables the KAT500 key line. I use this to check current SWR as displayed on my LP-100A and to make manual adjustments to the KAT500 tuning solution. Pressing the button for AutoTune inhibits KAT500 key line, initiates TS-590 TX-Tune with 15 W, then initiates a KAT500 auto tune. When auto tune completes the TS-590 is returned to 5 W for TX-Tune, and TX-Tune is stopped. When the TS-590 has returned to RX mode the KAT500 key line is re-enabled. Pressing the button for Save saves the current tuning solution to KAT500 memory. So, not a macro, but something that should be as easy to implement for a K3 as for a TS-590. Less than $30 worth of hardware and a few hours (days, weeks, months......) creating the Arduino code for this and several other functions. 73, Andy, k3wyc ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
