[Elecraft] KX2 and N1MM F-Keys

[Richard Ferch]

"The thing kept switching from  Run mode to S&P  when I left the program to
browse on the web for a bit then I switched back I had to switch it back to
Run": The N1MM+ program automatically switches from Run to S&P whenever you
QSY by more than a user-adjustable frequency tolerance. If you
inadvertently or intentionally moved the tuning knob on the radio while you
were off doing something else, that would switch the program from Run to
S&P.

If you want to start running on a new frequency after going off and doing
something else, simply press the F1 (CQ) key. In addition to sending your
CQ message, this automatically switches the program from S&P to Run mode.

"The CQ Repeat function has no pause ... The Repeat Time setting does not
do anything ...": I'm betting that you are using the CAT1ASC macro with KY
commands to send CW. This CW keying method is not supported by N1MM+. It
works, sort of, but there are several features of N1MM+ that do not work
properly, or at all, with this method. One of these is that the CQ repeat
time has to be set long enough to include the entire duration of the CQ
message plus the pause between messages, not just the desired pause time as
it would with a supported keying method. Try a really long repeat time,
then experiment with shortening it until you get a reasonable duration of
the pause between messages - but recognize that every time you change CW
speeds, you will have to adjust the repeat time as well.

"CW speed control does not work": If you are using the KY command method,
that's correct, it doesn't. That's one of the program features that do not
work with this unsupported keying method.

There is a list of shortcomings of the KY command method of CW keying from
N1MM+ in the N1MM+ documentation. Go to n1mm.com, click on Documents > 2.
Digging Deeper, then select Chapter 5.1 Serial Parallel and Sound Card
Interfacing and on that page select section 3.2 Choosing your CW Method -
or just go directly to <
http://n1mm.hamdocs.com/tiki-index.php?page=Serial+Parallel+and+Sound+Card+Interfacing&structure=N1MM+Logger+Documentation#Choosing_Your_CW_Method>.
If you can live with all of these, fine. If you want to use N1MM+ and you
cannot live without one or more of the features in the list, you will have
to do what it takes to implement one of the supported CW keying methods.

73,
Rich VE3KI