[Elecraft] Re: K2OOL Beta Testing - end of day report

Fri Mar 14 20:27:01 2003

Hi Wayne,

Well the work is paying off -  I'm now getting reports of people only
finding spelling errors, so we are getting close to completing the list of
bugs, and with a growing wish list.

Are you guys at the factory getting any feedback from the silent majority on
the usefulness/functionality? I've had a few people who just wanted to see
what what it was all about - they just downloaded it and sent me encouraging
notes, so it looks like I'm getting the functionality mostly right.

The AGC thing can be worked around I think, because I can check the
annunciator. At the moment, the program just stops and spews an audit trail
if there are any anomalies. However once I've picked up all the variations I
can make the program a bit more flexible.

Any comments on  BFO settings? I've had some queries on this. I've assumed
there is no way of retrieving that info without a probe on. I've been
thinking of allowing users to record the settings manually in the system, so
they will at least be recorded somewhere.

Another question - I'm posting testing news and new release messages to the
reflector. I just want to check that that is ok? I figured that if I keep it
to a max of 1-2 per day it won't annoy people too much.

Regards,

Tony
M3CJF
G7IGG

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Burdick" <[email protected]>
To: "Tony Wells" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 9:11 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] Re: K2OOL Beta Testing - end of day report

> Tony Wells wrote:
>
> > Lastly, one user has come up with a issue relating to an older firmware
> > release. K2OOL gets confused and stops if it encounters an out of date
> > response from the K2  when checking AGC. This may affect others, but I
do
> > need to see your K2dumps so I can work around the problem.
>
> Tony,
>
> Thanks for all the work you've put in on this.
>
> With regard to older firmware: I made several tweaks to the RS232 command
set
> between the first limited production release of rev 2 (2.01B) and the
latest
> (2.03D). So, I would expect K2ool to stumble upon more than one odd bit of
data.
> Of course the older the operator's K2 firmware is, the more likely they
are to
> be upgrading it, so I'm hoping K2ool will be able to report anything out
of the
> ordinary, then substitute some useful default value that the op can change
if desired.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
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