[Elecraft] APF Macro

[Wes Stewart]

I could be all wet but I'm not sure you can, regardless of talent.  The K3 command set is simply too limited.

Ideally you would want to be able to go into the CONFIG menu and enable (make it available) the APF function.  This isn't even straightforward doing it manually, because even though it is a CW only function, there shouldn't be (IMHO) a requirement for the mode to be in CW to enable the function, but you must.

Second, when the APF is first turned on I believe that it should default to the PITCH frequency.  But it doesn't and there is no way to make it so.  The "IS 9000;" command will center the non-APF SHIFT to the PITCH frequency for a known starting point, but it doesn't work on APF.

Third, the way APF is turned ON/OFF is via a "Hold" of a button and this a toggle function.  This key hold can be commanded via a macro but there isn't a command to simply say, "Turn on (or off) the APF". So it seems to me that trying to assign a function to macro key assignment just moves the toggle requirement from one key to another.  Hardly seems like progress.

Wes  N7WS


--- On Sat, 2/12/11, N6FB at aol.com <N6FB at aol.com> wrote:

> From: N6FB at aol.com <N6FB at aol.com>
> Subject: [Elecraft] APF Macro
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Saturday, February 12, 2011, 3:55 PM
> It is tough to get old and find most
> of your electronics know-how  is out 
> of date- so much so that creating a macro from scratch
> seems beyond my  ken.
>  
> APF is a very useful function, and I use it along with RIT
> as the  fine 
> tuning mechanism.  How would one generate and execute
> as either  a macro, or 
> PF1/PF2, to turn on and off a "APF and RIT activated" 
> function?
>  
> BIll Hartman
> N6FB
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