[Elecraft] Auto Information mode

[Tom]

That's great. 
Makes quite a difference.
73 Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> 
Sent: May 26, 2020 11:32 AM
To: Tom <elecraft.list at videotron.ca>
Cc: Andy Durbin <a.durbin at msn.com>; Elecraft Reflector
<elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Auto Information mode

I should have clarified: the K4 will exhibit 100% AI ("auto-info") control
and far faster update speeds.

Wayne


> On May 26, 2020, at 8:30 AM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
> 
> 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



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