[Elecraft] Elecraft [K3] Macro Mess

[Dave Zeph]

I've read the K3 Programmer's Reference and the K3 Utility (V1.4.4.25)
"Help".  Perhaps a programmer can understand it, but it offers me no
step-by-step guide as to how to construct a Macro.  So I suppose I'll limit
myself to Macros others have written - but I based on the following
experience, I have no confidence that I can assign them to a M-Key.

 

I tried to implement a simple Audio Mixer Command, !bed3, that was listed in
an October 2009 posting.  I edited Macro 1, gave it a name, and wrote it to
the K3.  I entered the CONFIG Menu and selected Macro.  I pressed "1", and
the then the M3 key to assign it to the M3 Key.  When I pressed the M3 Key,
the name I'd assigned to the Macro was displayed, but the Macro did not
execute.  I could execute it from the K3 Utility, but not from the M3 Key.
A subsequent READ MACROS FROM K3 showed that  !bed3  was assigned to the
Name I'd used for MACRO 1

 

I know the Audio Mixer functionality is now on the CONFIG Menu and this
exercise was unnecessary, but I wanted to try something that was "simple".
I'd sure like to know what I did wrong?  I doubt my ability to assign ANY
Macro to an M-Key.

 

Further, I have no DVR and tapping any of the M1-4 buttons returns NO DVR.
The K3 Utility "Help" says to restore standard memory recording functions to
tap the REC Key followed by the M-Key to be restored.  The only way I could
restore my M3 Key to returning a NO DVR Message was to send Blank Macro
named NO DVR and then assigning that to the M3 Key.  I would expect the
"restoration" procedure to have done this.  I have little confidence that
getting the message to coincide with the other M-Keys makes that Key behave
as the others.

 

Also, several times after I'd written the Macro to the K3, the K3 MAIN Audio
was "muted".  The S-Meter read full scale, and there was no audio.  Cycling
power restored operation but it was an unpleasant occurrence.

 

 

 

73 * Dave, W9ZRX