[KX3] More Macro Buttons

[Joel Black-2]

I wonder if it would be feasible to have more macro buttons in a future F/W release. Perhaps using the one of the PF buttons to put the radio into “macro” mode and use the number buttons for the macros?

Just a thought. Don’t know if it’s possible or not.

73,
Joel - W4JBB
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[Jim Kutsch, KY2D-2]

I'd find this very useful too. If it was possible to set one of the PF buttons to a "more macros" feature, then not only 0 through 9 but essentially every other button and knob could be used to activate a different macro. It would just be necessary to push the PF key followed by the desired other button or knob.

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Subject: [Elecraft] [KX3] More Macro Buttons

I wonder if it would be feasible to have more macro buttons in a future F/W release. Perhaps using the one of the PF buttons to put the radio into “macro” mode and use the number buttons for the macros?

Just a thought. Don’t know if it’s possible or not.

73,
Joel - W4JBB
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[Don Wilhelm]

Here is my vote *against* having many macro buttons.
There is a problem with remembering which buttons play which macros.
A limited number is fine with me, but there is a break-even point when
you cannot keep track of them in your head and a 'cheat sheet' is
needed.  I just don't want to get to the point where that cheat sheet is
needed.
In general, I prefer to tap out the functions needed on the regular
buttons because I can remember what those do.  I have only a few
occasions when it is helpful to activate a sequence of buttons
automatically.
The only macro that I use is to go split and up 2. I can remember that
one easily.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/26/2016 9:01 PM, Jim Kutsch, KY2D wrote:
> I'd find this very useful too. If it was possible to set one of the PF buttons to a "more macros" feature, then not only 0 through 9 but essentially every other button and knob could be used to activate a different macro. It would just be necessary to push the PF key followed by the desired other button or knob.
>
> Jim, KY2D
>    
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Then what Jim suggested would use the one button you don't even use. I would use every single one of those new macro slots and more.
73, Ryan AI6DO

 
 
  On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 19:48, Don Wilhelm<[hidden email]> wrote:   Here is my vote *against* having many macro buttons.
There is a problem with remembering which buttons play which macros.
A limited number is fine with me, but there is a break-even point when
you cannot keep track of them in your head and a 'cheat sheet' is
needed.  I just don't want to get to the point where that cheat sheet is
needed.
In general, I prefer to tap out the functions needed on the regular
buttons because I can remember what those do.  I have only a few
occasions when it is helpful to activate a sequence of buttons
automatically.
The only macro that I use is to go split and up 2. I can remember that
one easily.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/26/2016 9:01 PM, Jim Kutsch, KY2D wrote:
> I'd find this very useful too. If it was possible to set one of the PF buttons to a "more macros" feature, then not only 0 through 9 but essentially every other button and knob could be used to activate a different macro. It would just be necessary to push the PF key followed by the desired other button or knob.
>
> Jim, KY2D
>   
>

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[Buddy Brannan]

Of course, having extras available doesn't mean you have to use them, or even set up a macro key as a "more macros" key. Heck, why not be able to set up both PF keys as "more macros" keys and have 20? Well, except perhaps for storage. The KX3 already stores up to 8 macros, but only two can be accessed from the PF keys. Well, OK, that isn't strictly true if you use Wayne's (or whichever clever person's) self-modifying PF key definitions trick as I have done. With that trick, my next trick is remembering where in the sequence I last left things. Anyway, as for me, I'd find it handy for accessing those menu functions I can't really access because they're not implemented in the morse UI.

Which reminds me. Anyone know what the programming syntax is for the battery charger in the KX3? I had a macro to turn the charger on, but it seems to not work anymore. :-( So I have a KX3 full of dead NiMH batteries.

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> On Apr 26, 2016, at 10:36 PM, Ryan Noguchi via Elecraft <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Then what Jim suggested would use the one button you don't even use. I would use every single one of those new macro slots and more.
> 73, Ryan AI6DO
>
>
>
>  On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 19:48, Don Wilhelm<[hidden email]> wrote:   Here is my vote *against* having many macro buttons.
> There is a problem with remembering which buttons play which macros.
> A limited number is fine with me, but there is a break-even point when
> you cannot keep track of them in your head and a 'cheat sheet' is
> needed.  I just don't want to get to the point where that cheat sheet is
> needed.
> In general, I prefer to tap out the functions needed on the regular
> buttons because I can remember what those do.  I have only a few
> occasions when it is helpful to activate a sequence of buttons
> automatically.
> The only macro that I use is to go split and up 2. I can remember that
> one easily.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 4/26/2016 9:01 PM, Jim Kutsch, KY2D wrote:
>> I'd find this very useful too. If it was possible to set one of the PF buttons to a "more macros" feature, then not only 0 through 9 but essentially every other button and knob could be used to activate a different macro. It would just be necessary to push the PF key followed by the desired other button or knob.
>>
>> Jim, KY2D
>>    
>>
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