[Elecraft] Genovation Keypad on teh K3/P3, solved

[Wes (N7WS)]

I'd be interested in seeing it interfaced directly to the K3 without the 
necessity of having a P3.

I considered buying one of these some time ago to play with but their only 
distributors were in Phoenix, where I am most definitely not.  One of them 
wanted to charge me Phoenix sales tax since I"m in AZ.  I went so far as to 
email him the Phoenix City Code to prove that this was unjustified.  He didn't 
care.  The other one was also in Phoenix and wanted to charge shipping based on 
the cost of the item.  So shipping a pound of $100 bills would cost a fortune 
but shipping a pound of iron would be cheap.  I suggested to Genovation that 
they find some other distributors. I'm pleased to note that Amazon has them now.

Wes  N7WS

On 1/22/2016 7:54 AM, David Cole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's not that difficult, most of the work is just programming the P3
> macros into the P3 as Elecraft instructs you to do.  Which was harder to
> do than prepping the Genovation, as I used an external keyboard on the
> P3.
>
> Once the Keypad is updated, I just enter the triggers one time, hit the
> download button on the keypad software, and I am done forever
> programming the keypad.
>
> The keypad triggers the P3 to fire its macros, so you just program the
> triggers in once, and on the P3 make sure they match.  If you want to
> change macros, just change the P3 keeping the same trigger.  The
> triggers are arbitrarily selected.  I used 1-z, 1-0, and F1-F12, one for
> each key.  Then I just program the P3 to fire a macro on the appropriate
> trigger.
>
> The trick is in getting the triggers to match, and that is taken care of
> by the chart you can download.
>
> The write up makes it look a lot worse than it is because of the detail
> level.  The entire process took about 3 minutes to prep the Genovation,
> and the rest of the time was spent making macros on the P3.
>
> Once the Genovation is programmed I never program it again...  All it
> does is trigger macros from the P3.
>
> I must say, that after using the external keypad for a few hours on a
> pileup it is nice...  I almost never touch the K3 anymore.
>