[Elecraft] K1HTV Re: K3 DVR anomaly

[Rich - K1HTV]

Thanks Gary. It's a real pain when I'm in a pileup calling a DX station on SSB
and accidently hit the same or another memory button before the message playing
back has ended. When this happens, my transmission stops but the K3 stays in the
TX node during that time . If the DX stations quickly replies during after the
message ends I can not here him because the K3 hasn't yet switched back to
receive. Not good :-( .
 
Hope that this can be corrected in the near future rather than later distant
future. Thanks
 
73,
Rich - K1HTV

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From: Gary Surrency [mailto:gary at elecraft.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 18:36 PM
To: Rich - K1HTV
Cc: k3support at elecraft.com
Subject: K1HTV Re: K3 DVR anomaly


Hi Rich,

This is how the DVR was originally designed and works, and there are plans in
the future to address this with a firmware change. No word on when that will
happen though.



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On 9/19/2011 12:18 PM, Rich - K1HTV wrote: 

K3 DVR anomaly



I use the M1-M4 CW & DVR voice memories in my K3 to store various messages. I'm

using software versions MCU 4.39 / DSP 2.73 .  On CW, pressing the same or

different memory button while a message is playing will result in the two

messages being chained, as they should be. However, when the same is tried with

the voice memories this does not occur. Instead of the audio in the two memories

playing sequentially, only the first memory is played. This is followed by a

period of silence before the K3 switches from transmit back into the receive

mode. 



The amount of silence depends on the length of the recording in the memory of

the 2nd button that is pressed. I recorded a 2 second voice message in M1 and a

6 second message in M2. During the playback of the M1 message I pressed the M2

button. After the M1 message ended, there was 6 seconds of silence before the K3

went from transmit back into the receive mode. Again, the amount of silence

depends on the length of the message in the second button that is pressed. 



I believe that this is a bug and not a feature :-). Are others experiencing the

same anomaly?  If at all possible, please modify the K3 DVR software so it

allows the chaining of voice messages in the same manner as CW messages.

Thanks.



73,

Rich - K1HTV 









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