[Elecraft] Tech passing us by - was Re: Mouse-n-Click QSY

[Don Wilhelm]

Harry,

So use only 8 of them on your K-Pod - the other 8 can be used as 
self-programming (just don't use the buttons relating to 
self-programming buttons on the K-Pod unless you want to confuse 
yourself by not knowing which state they are in).

The point is that 8 was sufficient in the past, I am just curious why 
expanding the number to 16 would be a problem.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 2/16/2017 1:28 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote:
> I am well aware that there are 16.
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> But since they are all assigned to the K-Pod they are no longer useful for self reprogramming Macros.
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>       From: Don Wilhelm <donwilh at embarqmail.com>
>  To: Harry Yingst <hlyingst at yahoo.com>; "elecraft at mailman.qth.net" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>  Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 1:23 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Tech passing us by - was Re: Mouse-n-Click QSY
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> Limited Macros ???
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> Just a bit of information:  The number of macros was 8.  It was
> increased to 16 to support the number of buttons on the K-Pod.
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> Just because the K-Pod buttons can access the macros does not mean that
> those macros are dedicated to the K-Pod.  The fact that they are stored
> in the K3 allows them to be assigned to buttons as well or called up by
> an external source other than the K-Pod.
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> 73,
> Don W3FPR
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> On 2/16/2017 11:50 AM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote:
>> On the K3 the limited number of macros and how the K-Pod uses all 16 of them leaving none left over for other purposes.  As I understand it a bit of that is due to the microcontroller having limited programming space but if that's the case then the K3s should have used a more modern chip that had a larger space and possibly a new replacement board available to the older K3 to update them (something I thought that the K3 was supposed to be 100% future-proofed but with apparently not).
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