Voice macros

On phone — SSB, AM or FM — the Phone Macros group appears above the transmit controls. Each macro is a recording from your microphone that the console plays into the transmitter while keying it, so you can call CQ for an hour without saying a word.

Recording

1. Open Tools → Console Settings → Macros and scroll to Phone Macros.
2. Watch the microphone meter and the status beside it: Ready means your mic is open. Mic unavailable means the microphone is disabled or blocked; fix it in Audio setup first.
3. On the row for F1 (or any key), type a label if you like, then click Record. The status reads Starting mic… and then Recording F1.
4. Speak your message and click Stop.
5. Click Play to check it, or Erase to start over.

Recordings are saved in this browser on this device only. They don't follow you to another computer, and clearing the browser's site data removes them.

Two sliders apply to every macro:

• Macro Monitor Volume — how loudly you hear the macro in your own speakers while it plays. At zero the panel shows a warning so you know why it's silent.
• Macro Repeat — the pause between repeats, 1.0 to 10.0 seconds.

Playing

In the Phone Macros group, each recorded macro is a button labelled with its key and your label (or Macro 1, Macro 2, …). Click it, or press F1 to F5, and the console keys the transmitter, plays the recording and unkeys. The playing macro's button turns green.

Hold Shift while pressing the function key to repeat the macro every Repeat interval — the usual way to run a CQ. Press Esc to stop, either mid-message or between repeats.

The same group carries its own Macro Mon and Repeat controls so you can adjust them without opening settings.