K3 Macro Suggestions

[Lee Trout]

Wow, two comments now telling me the power button puts the K3 in a sleep
mode.  Really?  Thanks guys - I never thought of that.

Like most hams, I don't turn off the transceiver when I leave the shack for
a half hour, so, at least for me, the "sleep" macro would be rather handy.

It's OK if some find an idea silly; everyone has an opinion.  What I fail to
understand is why that opinion compels them to post a sarcastic comment that
contributes nothing but unnecessary clutter on the reflector.

Lee, (K9CM)
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[David Gilbert]

With no intent to be sarcastic, and in light of K6KR's comments about
certain things not being saved during power off, why don't you simply
use 'TEST" and "LOCK" to essentially disable the K3 while you are away
from it?  There isn't going to be an appreciable power drain in receive,
and off the top of my head I can't think of anything else you'd gain by
some sort of sleep mode.  I don't think this is an obvious situation
where one button press is better than two.

Dave  AB7E


Lee Trout wrote:

> Wow, two comments now telling me the power button puts the K3 in a sleep
> mode.  Really?  Thanks guys - I never thought of that.
>
> Like most hams, I don't turn off the transceiver when I leave the shack for
> a half hour, so, at least for me, the "sleep" macro would be rather handy.
>
> It's OK if some find an idea silly; everyone has an opinion.  What I fail to
> understand is why that opinion compels them to post a sarcastic comment that
> contributes nothing but unnecessary clutter on the reflector.
>
> Lee, (K9CM)

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[wayne burdick]

Hi Lee,

There is at present no way to put the K3 into "sleep" mode (i.e. a  
reduced-current mode from which the rig could be "woken up" with a  
serial port command). Good idea, though.

If you want to minimize current drain: turn the sub receiver off, set  
LCD BRT to 2, switch to 40 or 20 m (where the fewest relays are  
energized), bypass the ATU, switch to antenna 1, turn ATTN, PRE, and  
NB off, and set AF GAIN to minimum.

Fortunately the K3 only draws about 1/3rd as much current as most  
desktop transceivers even when it's "awake."

73,
Wayne
N6KR

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[Brett Howard]

What advantage do you see in a sleep function over that of the power?

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 12:58 -0400, Lee Trout wrote:

> Wow, two comments now telling me the power button puts the K3 in a sleep
> mode.  Really?  Thanks guys - I never thought of that.
>
> Like most hams, I don't turn off the transceiver when I leave the shack for
> a half hour, so, at least for me, the "sleep" macro would be rather handy.
>
> It's OK if some find an idea silly; everyone has an opinion.  What I fail to
> understand is why that opinion compels them to post a sarcastic comment that
> contributes nothing but unnecessary clutter on the reflector.
>
> Lee, (K9CM)
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[M0XDF]

Good idea Wayne, can someone work out the macro for that?
:-)
73 de M0XDF, K3 #174
--
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is
writing a book. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator and writer
(106-43 BC)

On 29 Oct 2009, at 17:30, Wayne Burdick wrote:

> Hi Lee,
>
> There is at present no way to put the K3 into "sleep" mode (i.e. a
> reduced-current mode from which the rig could be "woken up" with a
> serial port command). Good idea, though.
>
> If you want to minimize current drain: turn the sub receiver off, set
> LCD BRT to 2, switch to 40 or 20 m (where the fewest relays are
> energized), bypass the ATU, switch to antenna 1, turn ATTN, PRE, and
> NB off, and set AF GAIN to minimum.
>
> Fortunately the K3 only draws about 1/3rd as much current as most
> desktop transceivers even when it's "awake."

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