[Elecraft] [K3] UTILITY Improvements

[Thomas Norff]

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dick Dievendorff
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 2:12 AM
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Maybe memory save/restore belongs in that category of program.  
Dick, K6KR
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-----Original Message-----
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 5:41 PM

With all that operating behind us, I found that it would be nice to have an
easier way to change the data in the 00-99 Memory locations.  I was
wondering if the Utility Program can expanded so we can READ, EDIT, ERASE,
SAVE  and REPLACE key DATA elements such as the text that is entered by hand
into each of the 00-99 memories in a similar manner that the Filter
Configuration can be managed.  I know it can save Configuation Files but
they cant be edited. It is a great tool now and 
it is just begging (?) to be expanded.   What do you think?

73's   Tony    K2ZLS

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Lets do it....

As a possible starting point:

	1 - use excel to manage the memory tables
             - edit, insert, delete, sort, ...
      2 - define an interchange format, which would be usable by any tool in
any environment ...
             - such as 
                   <config>
                   </config>
                   <memory>
                     <mem00>
                       <frequency>
                         <value>
                       </frequency>
                       ...
                     </mem00>
                     ...
                   </memory>
      3 - write an import/export function for the excel tool
      4 - test for possible methods to get this information into the K3
             - via frontend commands, like a user would do it
             - direct modification in the K3-Utility config file
             - direct modification in the K3 itself

Maybe Simon can inform us if he is already working on that... ;o)

Any comments are welcome !  => PLEASE USE "[K3]UTILITY" in your Subject

73 de Thomas, DM7TN