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

[Cady, Fred]

Although it doesn't guard against accidentally holding KPod F1 or F2, another thing you can do is assign your recursive or self programming macros (now Macro 1 and Macro 2?) to be activated by a hold of PF1 and then make another macro say Macro 16 that holds PF1 (SWH45).  That does use up another of the 16 total macros but now just tapping Kpod F8 will toggle between split and non-split

Cheers,

Fred KE7X


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From: Elecraft <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws at triconet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 5:21 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Tech passing us by - was Re: Mouse-n-Click QSY

I have two re-programming macros, Split + 1 and No Split in Macro 1 and Macro 2
respectively. in my K3S. In the radio these are assigned to PF1.  Hold PF1, go
to Split; hold it again, cancel split.   Now, to avoid disasters, using the
K-Pod, I must program both tap and hold of PF1 and PF2 respectively to split and
cancel split.  So there are four functions tied up to do what I can do with one
button push on the K3S.  To get back to one button, I've put radio PF1 on K-Pod
PF3. Confusing, no?

IMHO, to fulfill its promise, the K-Pod should hold the macros and send them to
the radio.  They should be programmable in the K-Pod via USB.

Wes  N7WS


  On 2/16/2017 12:12 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote:
> Easier said than done; Hold the tap too long and it messes up the reprogramming macro.
>
> It should not be a problem for Elecraft to expand the macro area to hold more macros,providing they had the foresight to use a chip with a larger programming space.
>
> Point is there is room for improvement and either they keep up or they will be passed by.
>
>
>
>
>        From: Don Wilhelm<donwilh at embarqmail.com>
>   To:elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>   Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 1:43 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Tech passing us by - was Re: Mouse-n-Click QSY
>
> 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.
>>
>> But since they are all assigned to the K-Pod they are no longer useful for self reprogramming Macros.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>        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
>>
>> Limited Macros ???
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 73,
>> Don W3FPR
>>
>> 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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