[Elecraft] P3 New Features

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Or purchase an A/B USB switch and leave both plugged in?
73 de David, M0XDF (K3 #174, P3 #108)
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On 28 Feb 2013, at 20:09, Stephen Prior wrote:

> 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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