[Elecraft] Auto Information mode

[Wayne Burdick]

Tom,

This will also be true of the K4.

73,
Wayne
N6KR


> On May 26, 2020, at 8:27 AM, Tom <elecraft.list at videotron.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> A little trivia:  The AI mode in the Elecraft radios is far from complete.
> Only a small subset of commands are available.
> On Yaesu radios, everything done on the radios is supported with AI and you
> see orders of magnitude faster performance.  In fact it is so fast that you
> need to implement handshaking on the serial ports to prevent slower
> computers from buffering the incoming commands. On a Hexa Core I7-9800 CPU
> usage can hit 30% as it keeps up with all of the commands coming in when you
> turn the VFO dial rapidly. The resting CPU usage is 1% since no polling is
> occurring. The AI command is great especially since most of the traffic is
> usually just the s meter.  So very good meter performance.
> 73 Tom va2fsq.com