Rick Tavan N6XI rtavan at gmail.com Thu Aug 23 14:05:45 EDT 2007 Hi Rick,
Am I wrong or is there a drawback to all of these methods, that being that the memory info comes out of the radio the same way every time, it never changes. Let's say in step 1. which is the most effective, you choose a band and then press M1 (at 14.025) then tune up 8KHZ. If you press M2, then M1 forgets that you went to 14.033 and reverts to 14.025 the next time it is called. I'd like each one of those M1-M4 to accessable by one keypress and then tunable. This is more like band stacking registers on other transceivers. If you want to call up a static memory (non tunable), rather than going to M1-M4 to get it, you simply transfer from a normal memory. That would be the best of both worlds. I have a transceiver control program that I've adapted to do all this for K3, and it will do the trick just fine, only thing is I have to boot up WinDoze first. Sometimes I like to leave the computer off. If anyone is interested in my program, email and I'll send you the help file which includes a snazzy photo of K2 the mountain and all the scratchpad memories a heart would desire. There's also a jumbo sized frequency display, frequency callout, and a virtual S-meter. It's not HRD or N4PY but it is what it is, I've used a similar version for the TS480 for some time. I'll test and release as soon as I get my K3. doh! 73, Don Just a quick note for those of you drooling in anticipation of your K3s: Frequency memory control is very flexible, more than compensating for the lack of dedicated, individual band buttons on the compact front panel. There are five ways to select frequency: 1. The BAND up/down rocker switch cycles through bands one per tap, taking you to the previous frequency (and mode and filter, etc.) that you used on that band. This is effective but slow. 2. Type a frequency into your logging program and it will command the K3 to that frequency (etc. - I think mode selection will eventually be based on national allocations). 3. Tap M->V and one of the numeric buttons to select one of 10 global pre-set frequencies (and mode and filter, etc.). 4. Tap M->V, turn the VFO A knob and tap M->V again to select one of 100 global pre-set frequencies (etc.) including the 10 that are accessible via a numeric button. 5. Tap M->V and one of the four Mn buttons to select one of 4 per-band frequencies (etc.). It's methods 3 and 5 above, the "two-tap" methods, that I really like. I have set up my 10 numeric button memories with mnemonic settings as follows: 1 - 10m 2 - 20m 3 - 30m 4 - 40m 5 - 15m 6 - 6m 7 - 17m 8 - 80m 9 - 12m (well, no mnemonic there...) 0 - 160m Thus, with two button taps I can be on a preferred CW frequency on any band with my mode, filters and other preferences all set. I have also set up Mn for each band as follows: M1 - CW M2 - SSB M3 - RTTY Thus, once I am on a band I can change mode (and frequency, filters, etc.) with two taps. I use M4 as a temporary scratchpad. I may revert M3 to that purpose as well since I don't operate much RTTY. This is very fast, very easy and much better than my prior radios (MP, 930, K2). I love it! 73, /Rick N6XI _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
