K3 Programming questions

[Barry McWilliams]

I've been playing with the K3 remote control commands.  I've enabled the
interface with a AI2; command expecting to see "FA" responses when I
change the VFO A frequency.  I do see the FA responses, however they are
not "continuous".  As I tune VFO A, there is a delay in the FA response
and there is not an FA response for each tuning step.  For example, I
see FA00007037110; followed by FA00007037160; with no intervening steps
such as ... 37120, ... 37130, ... 37140, etc.

Also, I don't see responses to pressing the RIT or XIT buttons on the K3
front panel.

I'm using the latest level of the firmware, 1.66.  (By the way, the
software download from the web site works great!)

I'm probably missing some setting?  Any ideas?

Barry, WK2S
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[Dick Dievendorff]

Wayne's the expert here.  I believe the rig sends unsolicited "AI" data
(data that isn't in response to a command) about once a second if any  has
changed.  The programmer's reference section on AI says "within one second"
under the AI1 topic, I suspect that might apply to AI2 as well.

I'll try the RIT/XIT and send a separate note in a bit.

73 de Dick, K6KR




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Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Programming questions

I've been playing with the K3 remote control commands.  I've enabled the
interface with a AI2; command expecting to see "FA" responses when I
change the VFO A frequency.  I do see the FA responses, however they are
not "continuous".  As I tune VFO A, there is a delay in the FA response
and there is not an FA response for each tuning step.  For example, I
see FA00007037110; followed by FA00007037160; with no intervening steps
such as ... 37120, ... 37130, ... 37140, etc.

Also, I don't see responses to pressing the RIT or XIT buttons on the K3
front panel.

I'm using the latest level of the firmware, 1.66.  (By the way, the
software download from the web site works great!)

I'm probably missing some setting?  Any ideas?

Barry, WK2S
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[Simon (HB9DRV)]

Which makes sense - there's no point in overloading the user *and* the CPU
has other minor things to be doing (DSP, UI, CW decoding, ...).

Simon Brown, HB9DRV

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dick Dievendorff" <[hidden email]>


> Wayne's the expert here.  I believe the rig sends unsolicited "AI" data
> (data that isn't in response to a command) about once a second if any  has
> changed.  The programmer's reference section on AI says "within one
> second"
> under the AI1 topic, I suspect that might apply to AI2 as well.

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