I have a weather satellite ATP receiver that is controlled by a time switch this normally starts a mini disk recorder that runs for 15 minutes after the satellite is detected.
This works fine but of course I have to download the audio files from the mini disk before I can display them which is time consuming.
I have added a facility so that the time switch starts the computer with the Satscape program running hoping that the audio files would be recorded.
unfortunately for the auto recording function to be available a F3 keystroke is required after the program gets going which prevents automatic recording.
Is there any way around this?.
I see a very clumsy solution I could construct hardware that listens for the welcome to Satscape message and is hardwired to the F3 key on a special keyboard, this is the sort of thing we used to do in the 1940's we are supposed to do everything by software now!.
Back in 1972 with my Siemens 300 computer (10 MHz clock 256 Kb memory 16 bit) I could do this easily by writing a short subroutine but I have no idea how to do it running XP Proffesional on my AMD.
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