[K3] No RSP for some K3 commands

[Alexander Sack]

Hello Folks:

Simple question, when you send the Antenna Selection command (ANn;), I
notice that the K3 does not respond with any status code of whether it
succeeded or not.  Is this by design or just a bug?

uC 4.25
d1 2.71
d2 0
fl 1.14
dr 0

I would think it should return the current a status code explicitly OR
the current antenna selected (which then would allow an application to
test for success, etc.).

73

-aps (KC2ZSX)
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[wayne burdick]

"ANn;" is a "SET" command. To see what the status is, you'd use the  
"GET" version ("AN;").

Another possibility is to put the K3 into autoinfo mode by sending  
"AI2;". After that, anytime you change the antenna selection either by  
sending "ANn;" or by tapping ANT on the rig itself, an "ANn;" response  
will be generated. This is true for many other commands as well. The  
programmer's reference goes into much more detail.

73,
Wayne
N6KR

On Apr 16, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Alexander Sack wrote:

> Hello Folks:
>
> Simple question, when you send the Antenna Selection command (ANn;), I
> notice that the K3 does not respond with any status code of whether it
> succeeded or not.  Is this by design or just a bug?
>
> uC 4.25
> d1 2.71
> d2 0
> fl 1.14
> dr 0
>
> I would think it should return the current a status code explicitly OR
> the current antenna selected (which then would allow an application to
> test for success, etc.).
>
> 73
>
> -aps (KC2ZSX)
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[Alexander Sack]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]> wrote:
> "ANn;" is a "SET" command. To see what the status is, you'd use the "GET"
> version ("AN;").

Understood but that is a separate command sequence.

> Another possibility is to put the K3 into autoinfo mode by sending "AI2;".
> After that, anytime you change the antenna selection either by sending
> "ANn;" or by tapping ANT on the rig itself, an "ANn;" response will be
> generated. This is true for many other commands as well. The programmer's
> reference goes into much more detail.
>

Wayne, thank you.  I for some reason missed the AI commend in the
first paragraph of the reference.  Mea culpa.  Let me investigate this
mode before I ask my second set of questions!  :-)

73

-aps (KC2ZSX)
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[Alexander Sack]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Alexander Sack <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> "ANn;" is a "SET" command. To see what the status is, you'd use the "GET"
>> version ("AN;").
>
> Understood but that is a separate command sequence.
>
>> Another possibility is to put the K3 into autoinfo mode by sending "AI2;".
>> After that, anytime you change the antenna selection either by sending
>> "ANn;" or by tapping ANT on the rig itself, an "ANn;" response will be
>> generated. This is true for many other commands as well. The programmer's
>> reference goes into much more detail.
>>
>
> Wayne, thank you.  I for some reason missed the AI commend in the
> first paragraph of the reference.  Mea culpa.  Let me investigate this
> mode before I ask my second set of questions!  :-)
>

Small update;  Wayne that does fix it.  Oddly enough, it sends "ANn;"
twice as a response.

-aps
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