[Elecraft] [K3] more function keys please

[Wayne Burdick]

This is already on the list. The CONFIG:MACRO X menu entry will have X  
values of 1-8 and '#'. If you assign MACRO X to a switch, it will  
prompt for 1-8 when you use it, giving you access to up to eight  
macros with one switch.

73,
Wayne
N6KR


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On Nov 3, 2009, at 2:33 AM, "David Ferrington, M0XDF" <M0XDF at Alphadene.co.uk 
 > wrote:

> All this discussion on macros is very good, but what I'd really like
> is some more programable function keys.
> I don't want to use Mx keys, because I want them for recorded
> messages. That leaves just PFx keys.
>
> I did post over a year ago on the possibility of allowing us to have
> to banks of function keys, using PFx + [0-9] as the way of accessing
> them.
>
> That is, (via a CONFIG option of course) to be able to use PF1 as an
> introducer, followed by one press of the 0 - 9 keys, therefore with
> both PF1 & PF2, that gives us 20 function keys. And it works rather
> like a quick memory (M->V + [0-9]) so I hope wouldn't be too onerous.
> This however does mean you would have to HOLD PF1 or PF2, which might
> be a little annoying.
>
> The alternative for people who want to keep PF1 & PF2 and would work
> around the HOLD of PFx, is to allow us to specify that one of the Mx
> buttons is the introducer to a function bank, thereby, we would loose
> one Mx message and gain 10 function keys, still keeping the PFx keys
> and getting a TAP introducer. It would also allow those that wish it,
> to be able to have 40 function keys by designating all four Mx buttons
> as function introducers. And I guess (if there is enough memory, both
> machine and human) they could designate both TAP and HOLD Mx to give
> them 80 function keys, but I'd have trouble remembering 10 personally!
>
> Of course, I'm hoping the P3 will provide some more function keys.
> And I saw a suggestion here that perhaps a row of keys could be
> designed to fit under the K3, I guess using the RJ11 (or is it an
> RJ12) service connector as the way into the firmware.
>
> 73 de M0XDF, K3 #174
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