[Elecraft] K3 BEEP BEEP BEEP

[Steve Ellington]

Holy Macro! I need to go to the school of macros. We just need to get rid of 
that silly constant sidetone pitch thing, constant tone mon level thing and 
beeping tune button.

Steve
N4LQ
N4LQ at carolina.rr.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "drewko" <drewko1 at verizon.net>
To: <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 BEEP BEEP BEEP


> You could assign a switch macro that would set the MON level to zero
> every time you want to adjust it:
>
> ML000;SWH56;
>
> This sets the level to 0 then turns on MON for adjustment. All you
> have to do is twist the knob.
>
> You can also have a switch macro to set the MON level to zero before a
> TUNE...
>
> ML000;SWH16;
>
> but then you will manually have to adjust MON back up to your desired
> level after the TUNE (for which you can "safely" use the previous
> macro or MON).
>
> On a related topic... it would be really great if we could hear live
> signals as we adjust PITCH instead of hearing the steady sidetone. It
> is the pitch of the signals that we really want to adjust, not the
> pitch of the sidetone per se. It would be helpful to be able to hear
> the signals as their pitch was being adjusted. Different pitches are
> useful under different conditions of QRN and QRM and "live" pitch
> adjustement would help in finding the optimal setting.
>
> 73,
> Drew
> AF2Z
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:23:16 -0500, Steve N4LQ wrote:
>
>>Here I set knowing that if I push the "TUNE" button I will wake up 
>>everyone.
>>Why? Because it emits a beep and it's loud. Why is loud? Because my MON
>>level is turned up really high. Oh I would love to turn it down but if I 
>>try
>>that it will emit a LOUD TONE until I get it turned down. There's only one
>>known solution, activate headphones, adjust the MON level then go back to
>>spkr.
>>Yes....When using headphones I have to crank up the cw sidetone to about 
>>42.
>>If I forget to turn it back down to 15 before removing the headphones, I'm
>>faced with the loud beep/tone syndrome again.
>>
>>Here's how this SHOULD work.
>>
>>When I press MON, I should be able to set the sidetone level without 
>>dealing
>>with a constant tone! I could then set the MON for whatever level I want
>>without waking up the entire neighborhood.
>>When I press TUNE (to activate my ext. autotuner) NO BEEP PLEASE
>>
>>I don't mind having to change the sidetone level every time go from spkr 
>>to
>>headphone...I realize that's due to impedance and sensitivity variations 
>>BUT
>>I don't want loud, wanted, beep or tone when I do this. I'm sure this 
>>could
>>be done via firmware. If for some strange reason someone wants these 
>>noises
>>then maybe it could be a menu option.
>>
>>Other than that my nearly 2 yr. old K3 has been fine except for the static
>>electricity problem. When I touch the VFO A knob sometimes the screen goes
>>blank, frequency changes and headphone changes to speaker output. Yea it's
>>grounded to all kinds of things plus it's a new FP. Just weird I guess. 73
>>
>>Steve
>>N4LQ
>>N4LQ at carolina.rr.com
>>
>
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