[Elecraft] Power Control Setting Steps

[Lou Kolb]

Perhaps a tone-beep with each step and then a much lower or higher tone when 
you cycle back to the beginning.  Lou WA3MIX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Dievendorff" <dieven at comcast.net>
To: <nf4l at nf4l.com>; <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Power Control Setting Steps


>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-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [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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>>
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