Re: [Elecraft] SM$ command

2022-03-06 Thread Stefan Jansen
Hi all, Thank you for your detailed answers about the S-Meter on the KX2. With that info I can now implement my whitesticker-friendly S-Mmeter for the KX2. Vy 73 de Stefan, DK7STJ -- Stefan Jansen***E-Mail: dk7...@darc.de > Am 02.03.2022 um 00:15 schrieb Jack Brindle : > > Stefan;

Re: [Elecraft] SM$ command

2022-03-05 Thread Stefan Jansen
Hi Andy, Yes, I should have been more precise in asking my question. OK, thanks to your answer I know now that the SM$ command might report exactly the number of dots that are displayed on the KX2 for the S-Meter. But as I am a white sticker, I cannot read that display and do not know to which

Re: [Elecraft] SM$ command

2022-03-01 Thread Jack Brindle via Elecraft
Stefan; The KX2, like the KX3 and K3, have S-Meters with 21 bars. These go from S1 (with just one bar showing) to S9 (9 bars) it then has 12 more bars corresponding to S9 + 5 times the number of extra bars showing. So, if you have an S9+20db signal, there will be a total of 13 bars showing. If

Re: [Elecraft] SM$ command

2022-03-01 Thread Fred Jensen
Hello Stefan, There is a high resolution k3 command ... SMH ... which reports between 5 and 140.  My K3 Programers Manual is very old, the KX2 hadn't been born then, and it says that the command is not implemented in the KX3, but adds "Yet" at the end.  It might have been implemented in a firm

[Elecraft] SM$ command

2022-02-28 Thread Andy Durbin
Don't have a KX2 but Kenwood meter interrogations return the result as "dots" corresponding to the number of dots that are "lit" on the LCD meter scale. If the KX2 uses an LCD meter it's likely the same. Andy, k3wyc __ Elecraft mailing

[Elecraft] SM$ command

2022-02-28 Thread Stefan Jansen
Hi, I am currently trying to access some of the KX2’s data through the data interface, including the S-meter reading. The documentation states that a value of 6 corresponds to S9, 9 to S9+20dB, 12 to S9+40dB and 15 to S9+60dB. But what do values 1 to 5 stand for, is it S4 to S8? Would be grea