[Elecraft] P3 New Features

[Stephen Prior]

It might make sense to install a short USB extender cable for the back of
the P3 so that either the keyboard or the USB drive can be inserted without
mucking around at the back of the gear - I hate doing that!

73 Stephen G4SJP


On 28 February 2013 19:48, Mike K2MK <k2mk at comcast.net> wrote:

> The new P3 firmware has added some new items to the P3 menu and SVGA sub
> menu. The first one is labeled Amplifier and can be toggled on and off. It
> increases the height of the displayed signals on the P3 but does not change
> the amplitude scale on the left side. Obviously some further explanation is
> required.
>
> I slipped a thumb drive into the Keyboard socket on the SVGA board and then
> located some new items on the SVGA sub menu of the P3. By pressing the
> Select knob for the menu item SVGA Ubmp it loaded a bitmap image of the
> SVGA
> screen onto the thumb drive. It included decoded text that I had at the
> bottom of the screen. The image size was 1282KB for my 1280 x 1024 monitor
> setting.
>
> You might want to attach a pull string to your thumb drive. It's close
> proximity to the SVGA connector and the serial connector made it tough to
> get a good grip for thumb drive extraction.
>
> 73,
> Mike K2MK
>
>
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