[Elecraft] Now that the K-Pod is shipping, we could use your help with useful macros

Bill Frantz frantz at pwpconsult.com
Mon Jul 11 19:12:39 EDT 2016


I hadn't thought of that use for the macro. I was thinking of 
when I'm tuning the band, probably in CW or SSB mode, and come 
across a signal that looks like it is RTTY. This macro makes it 
easy to set up to decode the RTTY.


The complementary PSK macro does the same for PSK and the other 
DATA A encoding modes.

PSK MD6;DT0;PC035;AG000;IS 1450;BW0230

Go to Data mode and then Data A. Set output to 35 watts. Turn 
audio gain to zero. Set filter center to 1.450 KHz and bandwidth 
to 2.300 KHz

This macro sets up for computer PSK, MFSK etc. modes and opens 
up the filter so the whole waterfall can show signal in the 
computer decoding program.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 7/11/16 at 1:45 PM, gm3sek at ifwtech.co.uk (Ian White) wrote:

>This is a nice macro, but it's mostly a patch for a long-standing
>firmware bug - namely that, on returning to a data sub-mode on any
>particular band, the IF center frequency and bandwidth have often been
>changed to something quite inappropriate.
>
>This is because the K3 firmware failed to include the center frequency
>and bandwidth among the data sub-mode parameters that are memorized
>per-band. As a result, those settings are always being overwritten by
>the last settings used on some other band - quite possibly for some
>other, unrelated data sub-mode.
>
>Many years have passed since Elecraft acknowledged that this was an
>oversight... but it never was fixed, so the same problem has propagated
>into the K3S, and very probably into the KX3 and KX2 as well.
>
>
>73 from Ian GM3SEK
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
>Bill
>>Frantz
>>Sent: 11 July 2016 18:28
>>To: Elecraft Reflector
>>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Now that the K-Pod is shipping, we could use
>your
>>help with useful macros
>>
>>There was a bug in my RTTY macro. The latest version is:
>>
>>RTTY: MD6;DT1;IS 2210;BW0040
>>
>>Goes to Data mode and then AFSK A. Sets the filter center to
>>normal (2.21 KHz) and the bandwidth to 400 HZ.
>>
>>Old version was:
>>
>>>RTTY: MD6;DT1;IS 9000;BW0040
>>
>>73 Bill AE6JV
>>
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