[Elecraft] Macros

[Jim Leder (Hotmail)]

Had a situation this morning where my two macros started giving me goofy responses, and eventually would lock up my K3. The K3 still worked OK, and all was cleared up with a power off/on. I couldn't get the macros to work consistently, no matter what I tried, including the 'soft' reset'. So, I reloaded my firmware (4.60) and this apparently corrected the failure. I had been toying with several different macros and wonder if my playing around somehow fouled things up. I only have 2 macros: PF1 HOLD to put the rig into CW and PF2 HOLD to put the rig into FSK. These are simple macros (thanks K1HTV) and have been working without a hitch, until I attempted to get fancy.

 My questions are:
 Is it possible to fill up the macro memory slots, even when they appear empty? 
 Is there a way to clear/reset ALL the macros without reloading the firmware? (this seemed to fix my problem)

Additional curiosity: I was getting an FT0 on the terminal screen over and over of the utility program when things were fouled/locked up. Radio was NOT in split. I do not have the SR.

The radio and macros are now working as they should, but somehow I am sure I messed it up somehow. Any ideas?

Thanks...
  
     Jim Bob Buckeye 
            AKA
  **** Jim Leder****
    K8CXM since 1961
 IBM retiree since 1999
  
There are 10 types of people in this world -- those who understand binary
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