[Elecraft] Fwd: [FlexEdge] Field Day, Focus and Contest Skins?

[Brett Howard]

Good show kind sir!  This is exactly what I was thinking of when I was
trying to come up with how it would need to be coded.  

Really looking forward to mine shipping!

~Brett (N7MG)

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 21:19 -0700, Alan Bloom wrote:
> > Many also didn't like the slight lag in turning the knob and seeing
> > the signals.  As you tune the knob on the K3 the signals kinda drop
> > out and you have to stop your QSY then let the signals come up out of
> > the noise again and then dial into it...
> 
> That is probably caused by averaging.  I believe that with PowerSDR,
> whenever you tune the K3, the old spectrum is still present in the
> averaging memory and you have to wait an averaging time constant or two
> to see the new spectrum.
> 
> > I hope that the P3 is a lot faster and the signals stay visible 
> > while fast QSYing.
> 
> The P3 automatically re-sets averaging (and peak hold) whenever the K3
> frequency changes.  So you see an un-averaged signal immediately after
> tuning and then the signal smooths out as the averaging memory is
> refreshed.  But at least the signal never goes away.
> 
> Alan N1AL
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 12:57 -0700, Brett Howard wrote:
> > I should add though that they so loved the ability to click around on
> > stations just like they can with their N1MM band map that they usually
> > kept causing themselves the problem.  They'd swear off using PowerSDR
> > and said I'm just going to leave the focus on N1MM and not worry about
> > it anymore but they'd keep seeing something they'd want to go after
> > and the point/click ease was just too attractive.  Many also had
> > issues with the right click to go between pan mode and point/shoot
> > mode.
> > 
> > Many also didn't like the slight lag in turning the knob and seeing
> > the signals.  As you tune the knob on the K3 the signals kinda drop
> > out and you have to stop your QSY then let the signals come up out of
> > the noise again and then dial into it...  I hope that the P3 is a lot
> > faster and the signals stay visible while fast QSYing.  I don't
> > remember being able to do a whole lot of that when I saw it in Seaside
> > but there weren't a lot of signals all over just the 4 that were in
> > the recorder...
> > 
> > ~Brett (N7MG)
> 
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