[Elecraft] Troublesome Macro #1 (First in a series)

Byron Peebles nz3o.us at gmail.com
Mon Jul 2 20:41:05 EDT 2018


I am having trouble with the following Macro on a K3S and P3/SVGA.

BN10;DE500;MD6;DE100;FA00050313000;DE100;#CTF+00050315000;DE100;#SPN000043;DE100;

The delays are just there to slow things down, right?  No impact otherwise.

What happens is the Macro executes, but when it completes, the P3/SVGA 
switches the Center Frequency back to the previous band and the band the 
radio is on is correct but the SVGA display differs from the P3 itself 
by quite a bit.  For specifics, I test the Macro by switching to 28MHz 
band.  After execution, the P3 shows the 28MHz center frequency but the 
SVGA shows 74Mhz, or thereabouts.  - If I change the SPN, the center 
frequency varies. Suspicious.

What I am trying to accomplish is this:

Change bands(6m), Set Mode(Data), Set VFO-A Frequency (50313), Set P3 
Center (50315) and P3 Span (4.3)

The idea is to have the audio bandwidth of FT-8 on the SVGA display (in 
this example).

What obvious mistake am I missing and forgetting?  Thank you.

73, Byron

Note the results are the same whether in a Macro button or some the test 
command line. The results are fine when the command is broken up.  I do 
know about delays in command execution, especially band changes, and it 
does work better when you are already on the band.



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