[Elecraft] Power Control Setting Steps

[Dick Dievendorff]

I think Lee was asking for one "stateful" button.  Press it once, it goes to
the first "stop".  Press it again, it goes to the next "stop".  Maybe after
three or four "stops" it cycles around. 

I am thinking of some sort of mechanism that allows successive button
presses to navigate through user-programmed sequences of settings:

 "14005, CW width 800", then
 "14025, CW, width 400", then
 "14070, RTTY, width 250",
 "14195, USB, width 2400",
 "14250, USB" etc.

It sounds good, but for a setting that isn't clearly on the front panel LCD
display, I think you'd probably forget where you were, so you'd end up
always pushing the one button a number of times

You can now assign different K3 switches for different macros that have no
state. That uses up the limited supply of buttons pretty quickly, though.

Dick, K6KR


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 1:01 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Power Control Setting Steps

Lee -

You can create a macro for each power level, and assign it to a button. I
have one that sets the power at 45 watts for use with the amp (buttton M4),
and another to set it to 100 watts (button M1) when I don't use the amp. And
then there is the tune setting.

The K3 utility has a very fine help file on creating the macros, and
assigning to buttons.

As the old pasta sauce ad used to say "It's in there!"

73, Mike NF4L

On 3/12/2011 3:28 PM, Lee Buller wrote:
> Maybe a new feature....
>
> A way to step through or set power out put....say at 5 - 25 - 50 - 75 
> - 100.  I do like to run barefoot as much as possible, but when the dx 
> shows up and I have to tune the amp (into a dummy load) I like to be 
> able to switch quickly to 25 watts without cranking the knob several 
> times to get to 25 watts.  A button that could be programed for full 
> or low power or steps in power.  I hope I am getting the idea across here.
>
> Now I know....several guys have made T-Pads to run the full 100 watts 
> out from the K3 reduce the power to the amp, but that does not work 
> for me in my set up with my AL-82.  I was just thinking if the 
> programming could be changed or a macro could be made to step through
different power levels.
>
> Just an idea
>
> Lee - K0WA
>
>
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