I wrote:
The way the remote control works makes this difficult (I was going to say impossible but I've just thought of a way to do it - maybe I'll get round to it).

I've just realised that it isn't possible. The numeric keys on the remote don't autorepeat. No matter now long you hold it down for it just sends the one code.

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Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)