[chirp_devel] Elecraft KX3?

[Declan Rieb]

The new driver is almost-working to read (only) the Elecraft KX3 (and only basic memories.) But I’ve a few questions, and a problem:

Question: this radio’s memories contain data for TWO VFOs in each memory. I’m confident I can display the second VFO as mem.extra fields (frequency and mode) but is there any workaround way to get CHIRP to display both sets of fields in the normal display? Or possibly to preset the “display extras” menu item for the radio at startup?

Question: The driver's routine “get_features” shows up as being called 24 times(!)  I’ve put a LOG.debug inside to show that valid_modes has the appropriate values. I expected it to be called once. It’s not a problem to me, but it is a surprise. Is this normal?

Problem: Having set ‘valid_modes’ to be appropriate for the radio, when I try to use one of the more esoteric ones (“AM-S/LSB”) CHIRP complains that the value is not in a (default? canonical?) list of modes… that list is NOT the one that is shown as having been set in “get_features”! It looks to be one set in chirp_common.py. What have I done wrong?

This problem is stumping me. 

The debug is from an execution aborted after the errors. Memories 8 and 10 have mode ‘AM-S/LSB’!
Source is in the new “elecraft” branch on darieb/darchirp hub. It won’t pass any of your standard tests, yet.

Thanks in advance.



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Declan Rieb WD5EQY
wd5eqy at arrl.net

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