[Elecraft] [K3] Sending sequential serial numbers with the K3

[David Wilburn]

Everyone is 59(9) in a contest.  There are keyers out there that 
handle serial numbers.  As one example;
http://www.idiompress.com/K5.html

I am sure there are more.

Signal reports only have relative value, especially in a contest.  The 
fact that a contest station down the street with stacked beams and 
multiple towers can pick you up 599 +20dB, is no indicator that my low 
dipole can pick you up.

It is as they say, all relative.

73 es gud DX

Dave Wilburn
NM4M

David Pratt wrote:
> In a recent message, Tom-N2YTF <thomastumino at yahoo.com> wrote ...
>> It would be great if there was a macro you could insert into a cw 
>> memory that sent incremental numbers....for example, store
> 
>> XXX 5NN TU de N2YTF
> 
>> In M4 and have the K3 automatically send
> 
>> 001 5NN TU de N2YTF
> 
> and the next time M4 is sent-
> 
> 002 5NN TU de N2YTF
> 
> This is not 'great' at all, Tom. What if the station is not 5NN? Not all 
> signals are RST599 at my QTH.  What you really need is a means for the 
> K3 to decode the readability, signal strength (from the S-meter) and 
> tone of the signal and be able to send those, together with a sequential 
> serial number, either in full numerals or shortened numerals.  Surely 
> that is not beyond the capabilities of the Aptos developers?
> 
> 73