[Elecraft] New K4 beta software release (R32.B1)

[Wayne Burdick]

K4 beta release R32.B1 is now available. 

This release corrects a problem with TX DVR message play, where interrupting playback could sometimes disable microphone audio. (Just in time for the next big SSB contest....) I'd like to thank our intrepid Field Test group as well as our software team for finding and fixing this challenging bug.

There are also a few other bug fixes, as well as some new or enhanced remote control/macro commands.

Full release notes appear below.

73,
Wayne
N6KR


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====================== R32.BETA1 ========================
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November 14, 2022


===== BUG FIXES =====

- TERMINATION OF DVR MESSAGES no longer causes occasional loss of mic audio.

- REPEATER OFFSETS are now correctly applied to VFO B when in SPLIT.

- IMPROVED EEPROM DATA VERIFICATION.


===== FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS & MACRO USERS =====

- DUPLICATE "TX;" COMMAND while in transmit mode no longer exits transmit.

- ADDED "EE0;" command to reset all radio state and menu parameters to defaults, with the exception of factory calibration data.

- ADDED "TQX" GET COMMAND (extension to "TQ" TX status query):  If the GET query is "TQ;", then the K4 is considered to still be in transmit mode during the S-meter holdoff time (300 ms), even though receive audio can be heard. If the GET query is "TQX;", then the S-meter holdoff time is not considered to be part of the transmit state. This allows an application to find out more quickly when actual RF transmit has ended, which may result in a more responsive user interface (when playing DVR messages, for example).

- ADDED "AG$+nnn" (AF gain increment/decrement).

- ADDED "VC" command to properly handle configuration of per-mode coarse tuning steps. "VT" command also improved to correctly handle A/B VFO swaps, etc.

- IMPROVED "#HWFC" command to allow modification of waterfall color mode for both panadapters on the external monitor.