[Elecraft] Changing the default CW sideband with Logger32

[Gary Hinson]

Dear Elecrafties,

I recently whinged about the K3 using the "wrong" sideband for CW, for me
anyway.  I prefer tuning from the bottom of the band upwards, hearing
successive CW tones going high-to-low as I go, which requires CW-REV on the
K3.  That's fine, until I click on a spot in Logger32: as well as QSYing the
rig for me, it automagically resets the radio to CW [normal]  :-(

I searched Logger32's help for clues and found a section on the K2/K3.
First I tried adapting Logger32's commands that can specify the filters to
also send a change mode command (i.e. MD7;) but couldn't make that fly.  It
seems the commands can be added to the Logger32.INI file but they don't seem
to work at all for me - neither mode nor filters get changed.  No doubt I'm
doing something daft but the help file doesn't quite help.

Well tonight I've found a simple workaround which does work.  Tell Logger32
to use mode CW-REV in place of CW in its band-mode table.   The table is
accessed from the Tools menu pull-down (select "Setup Bands & Modes").  Open
the table, find a CW entry, edit it to read CW-REV and hit return to finish
editing each one, then the next ... and finally click the Apply button.  Now
when I click a CW spot, the radio QSYs and stays in or goes to CW-REV.  

Easy peasy  :-)

Now I really must remember to check whether N1MM's logger can do the same
trick, prior to the next contest ...

73
Gary  ZL2iFB

PS  I'd still appreciate having a K3 config menu option to swap CW with
CW-REV or change the default CW sideband, given the choice, but it's
definitiely not a priority for me any more!