[Elecraft] [K3] Toggle macros

[Jim N7US]

I agree it's very cool to be able to program a toggle macro.  I just wanted
to mention that the same can be accomplished in DXLab's Commander rig
control module, with which you can have either eight or sixteen
"user-defined controls."

I have two that each switch between a mic on the front panel jack and one on
the rear and also select the desired VOX gain, mic gain, compression, TX EQ,
and set the gain at high or low.  Another switches between two power levels,
and others turn on/off speakers, audio mute, VOX, and spot.  They use color
"LEDs" to indicate the state.

The user-defined controls are in the files folder of the DXLab Yahoo
reflector, 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlab/files/Command%20Sequences%20%26%20Slider
s/Elecraft/ .  

Commander's UDCs have the ability to have a comment line for each line of
the macro, as Stewart described below.

73, Jim N7US


-----Original Message-----


Apologies if this is 'yesterday's news'.......

When I'm S&Ping in a contest with the 2nd receiver in the right ear (A-AB) I
like to be able to switch quickly to sub in both ears (AB-AB); often it
makes it easier to copy a weaker signal.

I've been doing this with 2 macros to switch the L-MIX-R menu item, one
allocated to M4 TAP and the other to M4 HOLD. After reading the recent posts
on the K3 Triple Macro ('self modifying code') for cycling power levels I
realised I should be able to set up the audio mixing macro on just one
button as a true toggle switch, and the following 2 macros both allocated to
M4 TAP does just that and now releases the M4 HOLD for another macro.

MACRO 5		AB AB   	MN111;MP003;MN110;SWT29;SWT39;SWT14;
MACRO 6		A AB	        MN111;MP001;MN110;SWT27;SWT39;SWT14;

Thanks to whoever thought of all this, it's pretty neat. The first 2 fields
(MN111;MP003;etc) switch the L-MIX-R and were originally allocated to tap
and hold separately; the other fields reset the macro as in the 'Triple
Macro' examples. 

As an aside, it would be great to be able to comment the macros (in K3
Utility?) especially when they're a bit involved like this; I've not found
this is possible. Presumably this won't work unless the 'comments' are
stored in the K3's EEPROM....with the inevitable space issues?

73,

Stewart, GW0ETF