[Elecraft] No On/Off for COMP & EQ?

[Bill Coleman N2BC]

There has been much chatter about the K3 EQ lately.  I've written a small Windows application that helps to 'manage' the equalizers.  This is a work in progress, and I'm not much of a programmer.  You should take this to mean: Caveat Emptor!

The application is being used by about 20 people now and I'm chasing a couple bugs.

1) It does not behave well when access to the K3 is via N8LP's LP-Bridge.  This is NOT an LP-Bridge issue.  There is no direct way to read the EQ settings other than simulating button presses and reading the VFO B area.  The problem is that the EQ setting displayed on VFO B only appears momentarily and is then replaced with the 'label' for the EQ band.  Because LP-Bridge is polling the K3, my app will sometimes miss the data.

2) The app is written in MS Visual Basic 2008 and requires ,NET Framework 2.0 or later.   If your system does not have 2.0, it will be downloaded from Microsoft.  While this is not in and of itself a problem, I do have one user that is having difficulty that looks like a problem in the Framework - something that may well be beyond my capability to resolve.

You can peek at the application and download it here:  http://home.roadrunner.com/~n2bc/SW.htm

I'm looking for ideas for impovement - some are proposed on the subsequent web page.  I am in the process of improving the overall communications error handling, improving the documentation, and looking at other ways to store the EQ settings.  No timetable for these as yet.

If this little utility is a help, great!  I would prefer that any communications regarding the program not be on the Elecraft reflector, but rather direct to me.   n2bc at stny.rr.com

THX & 73,   Bill  N2BC



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