[Elecraft] k-pod data cable

[Wes Stewart]

Hi Fred (I have one of your books BTW)

Save your money.  When I said. "As I've written before", what I had said earlier 
was:

"I saw a similar problem.  Only tapping a button appeared to send the command to 
the K3 but the K3 failed to respond.  For example, I had my K-Pod set up to use 
a tap of F5 to invoke M1, where my call was stored.  Tapping F5 would result in 
"MSG 1" showing up in the VFO B space on the display but M1 was not activated.  
(Tony G6GLP) has also reported this problem.  Tapping M1 on the K3 works every 
time."

Read the last sentence.  Additionally, there are other messages in Bank 2 so 
something should have been sent.

But this thread and others---IMHO of course---exposes a missed opportunity.  
Instead of this Mickey Mouse way of writing a limited number of macros, that 
have to be sent to the K3 and stored, only to be executed by a K-Pod over a 
dubious interface, the macros should simply be saved in the K-Pod in the first 
place and sent via USB and/or RS232.

Wes  N7WS

On 1/16/2017 3:43 PM, Cady, Fred wrote:
>   2) I have Macro 13 (tap F5) set to activate MSG 1 (SWT 21)  As I've written
> before, many times, tapping this button resulted in "MSG1" displayed on the
> radio but no message was transmitted.
>
> Remember there are two banks of memories.  I'll bet the Macro label is MSG1 (which is displayed when the macro is executing) but you are in one of the banks that doesn't have the message programmed into it.  To switch banks, hold the REC key.  Unfortunately that is a toggle so you can't hold it in a macro and have to be in Bank 1 or Bank 2 deterministically.
>
> Cheers,
> Fred KE7X
>