[Elecraft] Macros that need to be executed twice

[tomb18]

HiFor your information..there are various reasons a macro needs to be sent twice to be effective. One is that radios appear to be "deaf" after a band change when in fact the band has not yet actually been changed.  This can effect more than just a macro. For example the WSJT-X application will change bands when you select a different one than you are currently using and it will immediately follow this command with a command to read the frequency.  In all cases it shows the previous frequency but instead of waiting, it issues a mode change to data-a anyways with the result that the mode ends up being incorrect. There are other cases where macros that change something in a menu can take quite some time to actually execute with the result that subsequent commands make it do the wrong thing. The best way around some these issues would be if Elecraft would add a delay command to their API that would not be ignored. But the best solution is for software such as the Elecraft utilities or other third party software to have a built in delay command that would slow down delivery of a multi command macros. 100 to 1000ms would be enough.That being said there are one or two commands that always need to be repeated no matter what the delay.73 Tom www.va2fsq.com



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-------- Original message --------From: "Cady, Fred" <fcady at montana.edu> Date: 2016-12-16  11:05 AM  (GMT-05:00) To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net Cc: Vic DiCiccio <vicd at uwaterloo.ca> Subject: [Elecraft] Macros that need to be executed twice 
Some folks have observed that sometimes a macro need to be executed twice in order for it to reach the desired end state.  VE3YT and I have a theory on what may be causing that and would like some test cases.  So if you have a macro that doesn't seem to work reliably or needs to be run twice, could you please send it along to me.

We'll let you know what we find out.

Cheers,

Fred KE7X


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