Elecraft P3 High-Performance Panadapter Manual User Manual

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If a station answers, you may:



Press Esc. That stops the transmission and

clears the transmit window. You can then

type a reply that will be transmitted

immediately or when you enter CR or ^T,

depending upon the transmit mode you

have selected (see Transmit Mode: CR, ^T,
VOX

on page 26).



Start typing your reply. This automatically

cancels further beacon transmission but

does not interrupt the beacon message

while it is being transmitted. Your reply

will be transmitted immediately after the

beacon message. You do not need to initiate

transmission.

Using Macros

Macros are used to automate a sequence of control

setting and button pushes on the K3 so that they

may be accomplished with a single entry on the

keyboard. For example you may want to create

macros to shift the K3 into a particular mode on a

specific frequency or band by a simple one or two

key entry on the keyboard. You can create and enter

up to 50 macros of up to 124 characters each. They

are stored in non-volatile memory so they will not

be lost when power is cycled. These memory

locations are independent of the message memories.

You can store 50 messages and 50 macros at the

same time.

Entering Macros

Press

Ctrl-Alt-M

to open the macro entry window.

The process of entering the various windows,

assigning a key used to recall the macro and editing

macros is identical to that used for text messages.

See Text Message Entry, above. Note that to enter

the text message entry window you pressed

Ctrl-Alt-

but you must press

Ctrl-Alt-M

to enter the macro

entry window.

Sample Macro:

Assign a macro memory to the F1 key (see
Assigning a Recall Key

on page 27) and enter and

save the following macro (see Editing a Message

on page 27):

FA00014970000;MD6;FA00014070000;DT3

Now pressing F1 on the keyboard will send the

above macro to the K3 setting VFO A to 14.070

and the mode to DATA, PSK31.

NOTE: When creating a macro, pressing

will place the K3’s current frequency

(including RIT) into the macro in the form of

an FA command. For example, if VFO A is

set to 7.123 and

is pressed while entering

the macro,

FA00007123000;

will be inserted

into the macro string.

For more information about writing macros, refer to

the K3 Programmer’s Reference available on the

Elecraft web site at

www.elecraft.com

or the K3

Utility

help screens.

Screen Capture

There are two ways you can capture a bitmap image

of the P3 display:
1. Use the P3 Utility program with a computer.

With your computer connected to the P3 and

the P3 Utility Program running, click on the

CAPTURE IMAGE tab

2. Write a bitmap directly to a thumb drive

plugged into the

KEYBOARD

jack on the back

of the P3 as follows:

1. With the thumb drive plugged into the

KEYBOARD

jack, tap

M E N U

and then

turn the

SELECT

knob to SVGA

menu.

2. Tap the

SELECT

knob enter the

SVGA sub-menu and turn the

SELECT

knob to Ubmp.

3. Tap the

SELECT

knob to start the capture.

The time required to capture the image varies

according to the resolution you have set. If you

want to abort the capture, tap

NOTES:

While most thumb drives are supported,

some will not work. You’ll have to test

the drives you have on hand.
The .BMP files are named in sequential order

starting with 00000001. The time stamp on all

captured files is fixed. It does not indicate the

actual time of the file capture.