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VE3WDM

K-pod issue....I think?

Good afternoon all, I was operating in the NAQP CW this weekend and the main reason I purchased the K-pod was for contesting. It was great to have the VFO right beside my keyboard and to have the advantage of sending contest macros from the K-pod meant less mouse work. The question I have is...I did notice on many occasions when pressing the "F" buttons to send a macro (e.g. VE3WDM and Mike ON or K3 functions such as spot or A/B ) the macro did not send. Sometimes it took pressing the "F" button 3 times. Other times it was first press and I noticed this on all the F buttons I was using which was F1,2 4 and 8. Has anyone else had this? My question to Elecraft (as I know they monitor the list) is....is there an issue with my new K-pod? It is very frustrating during a contest to send your call and have it not happen or your exchange and nothing and as said sometimes up to 3 tries. As well to want to spot a station and nothing happens or A/B and nothing happens.

Thanks

Mike Weir

VE3WDM
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Tony G6GLP

Re: K-pod issue....I think?

Hi Mike
I have the same in that not always but sometimes pressing say F3 the
display on the K3 shows MEM 3 but the function doesnt work. When I
mentioned it a while ago the suggestion was that it could be RF in the
shack from common mode current or similar. As yet I have not cured it or
managed to make it repeat every time. The search continues.

73 de Tony G6GLP

On 15/01/2017 20:40, Mike Weir wrote:

> Good afternoon all, I was operating in the NAQP CW this weekend and the main reason I purchased the K-pod was for contesting. It was great to have the VFO right beside my keyboard and to have the advantage of sending contest macros from the K-pod meant less mouse work. The question I have is...I did notice on many occasions when pressing the "F" buttons to send a macro (e.g. VE3WDM and Mike ON or K3 functions such as spot or A/B ) the macro did not send. Sometimes it took pressing the "F" button 3 times. Other times it was first press and I noticed this on all the F buttons I was using which was F1,2 4 and 8. Has anyone else had this? My question to Elecraft (as I know they monitor the list) is....is there an issue with my new K-pod? It is very frustrating during a contest to send your call and have it not happen or your exchange and nothing and as said sometimes up to 3 tries. As well to want to spot a station and nothing happens or A/B and nothing happens.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike Weir
>
> VE3WDM
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k6mkf

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I've noticed the same sort of thing. I discovered that the 'tap' of an F key needs to be firm - a bit more than just a tap. The 'hold' time seems to be >.5 second.

It took a bit to train myself to these timings, but now I don't notice the issue.

-- Mike Flowers, K6MKF, NCDXC - "It's about DX!"

> On Jan 15, 2017, at 2:41 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> I have not noticed it in a great deal of testing macros, etc., on the KPOD.
> Are you using the Elecraft supplied cable and not a common RJ45 cable? If
> not, you should make sure pin 1 in the cable is disconnected.
>
> Is it possible you have a bad connector that is intermittent.
>
> 73, Ron AC7AC
>
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> From: Elecraft [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Mike
> Weir
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2017 12:40 PM
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> Subject: [Elecraft] K-pod issue....I think?
>
> Good afternoon all, I was operating in the NAQP CW this weekend and the main
> reason I purchased the K-pod was for contesting. It was great to have the
> VFO right beside my keyboard and to have the advantage of sending contest
> macros from the K-pod meant less mouse work. The question I have is...I did
> notice on many occasions when pressing the "F" buttons to send a macro (e.g.
> VE3WDM and Mike ON or K3 functions such as spot or A/B ) the macro did not
> send. Sometimes it took pressing the "F" button 3 times. Other times it was
> first press and I noticed this on all the F buttons I was using which was
> F1,2 4 and 8. Has anyone else had this? My question to Elecraft (as I know
> they monitor the list) is....is there an issue with my new K-pod? It is
> very frustrating during a contest to send your call and have it not happen
> or your exchange and nothing and as said sometimes up to 3 tries. As well
> to want to spot a station and nothing happens or A/B and nothing happens.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike Weir
>
> VE3WDM
>
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VE3WDM

Re: K-pod issue....I think?

Thanks Mike I will try a longer tap.
73,
Mike
VE3WDM

VE3WDM

Re: K-pod issue....I think?

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Tony send me your macro I will try it see how it operates and see if we can solve this issue.
Email is ve3wdm@hotmail.com
73,
Mike

Wes Stewart-2

Re: K-pod issue....I think?

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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.

A few words about configuration before the inevitable queries are made. I have
previously expressed my unhappiness with the length and stiffness of the
supplied interface cable. IMHO, it's almost pointless to have a K-Pod if you
can't locate it further from the radio. I also questioned the warning against
having anything connected to Pin 1 on the radio end. It was suggested to me by
an Elecraft engineer friend that I might use the existing cable as a "Pin 1
breaker" and then extend the cable using a female-female RJ12 connector and a
standard RJ12 cable. So that's the setup.

My K3S has the power mod installed but it's on sabbatical so I've been using my
spare K3, which is unmodified. Hence I powered the K-Pod with a dedicated 12V
power supply.

The Pin 1 problem was previously described as a concern with having a wire
hooked to a pin on a PIC, which could be upset by noise on the wire. It's
looking to me like having any external wires connected to the PIC without
buffering and/or decoupling is a bad idea.

Wes N7WS

On 1/15/2017 1:40 PM, Mike Weir wrote:

> Good afternoon all, I was operating in the NAQP CW this weekend and the main reason I purchased the K-pod was for contesting. It was great to have the VFO right beside my keyboard and to have the advantage of sending contest macros from the K-pod meant less mouse work. The question I have is...I did notice on many occasions when pressing the "F" buttons to send a macro (e.g. VE3WDM and Mike ON or K3 functions such as spot or A/B ) the macro did not send. Sometimes it took pressing the "F" button 3 times. Other times it was first press and I noticed this on all the F buttons I was using which was F1,2 4 and 8. Has anyone else had this? My question to Elecraft (as I know they monitor the list) is....is there an issue with my new K-pod? It is very frustrating during a contest to send your call and have it not happen or your exchange and nothing and as said sometimes up to 3 tries. As well to want to spot a station and nothing happens or A/B and nothing happens.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike Weir
>
> VE3WDM
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