[Elecraft] K3 Regarding the Power On Banner

[wayne burdick]

There was a firm limit of 240 segments for the K3's LCD, due to the 
particular LCD driver we used and other considerations. This meant 
including only those VFO B decimal points needed for parameter displays 
and frequency display (a total of 4 decimal points among the 7 
character positions).

Because of this, arbitrary text sent to the VFO B display is subject to 
some translations, among them conversion of '.' to an underscore, ':' 
to a top/bottom line, and '!' to .... well, you'll have to try it  :)  
It's a compromise.

You can test text-to-VFO B translations using the power-on banner, or 
you can send characters to the VFO B display one at a time using the 
"DB" remote control command. For example, if you type "DB%;" in the 
command tester window, you'll see what passes for a percent sign pop 
out on the VFO B display. "DBJ;" would send the letter J, etc. In fact 
you can send strings of any length to the VFO B display in this way 
using a PC program.

73,
Wayne
N6KR


On Jan 10, 2009, at 4:45 PM, David Lankshear wrote:

> Hi Doug.
>  
> I played with this briefly yesterday before taking the rig down for 
> some mods, so I  haven't been
> able to check it out.  I have a feeling that spaces entered by the 
> user appear as underscores,
> so your period might just be "lost" in the underscore.  I put my 
> serial number in the banner and
> the # looked most unsatisfactory with an underscore below it, but 
> then, as I know my name,
> callsign, serial number and that the rig's a K3, I don't really need a 
> power-on reminder just yet HI!
>  

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