P3 firmware 0.36 experiences?

[Craig Smith]

I'm considering installing the 0.36 P3 firmware, but am not in the habit of
using beta versions of the K3 firmware, which is required for total support
of 0.36.  I do not use HRD or have any other known response/latency issues.
Also no immediate plans to use the function key implementation of QSY
tap/hold.  Release notes indicate that these are the main improvements in
0.36.
My question for folks who have tried it is:  Are there any other benefits of
0.36 that I would notice or enjoy?
Thanks and 73    Craig   AC0DS

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[k5oai]

You didn't mention which version you are using?
My P3 originally had version 0.33

I upgraded to 0.36 because it asl included these 2 items found in version:
MCU 00.34 / 8/24/2010

* Eliminates rare screen freeze after transmit.

* The amplifier relay clicks less often.

I had had an occasional screen freeze after transmit.

After the upgrade to 0.36 I no longer have the problem.

GB & 73
K5OAI
Sam Morgan

On 9/20/2010 8:44 AM, Craig D. Smith wrote:

> I'm considering installing the 0.36 P3 firmware, but am not in the habit of
> using beta versions of the K3 firmware, which is required for total support
> of 0.36.  I do not use HRD or have any other known response/latency issues.
> Also no immediate plans to use the function key implementation of QSY
> tap/hold.  Release notes indicate that these are the main improvements in
> 0.36.
> My question for folks who have tried it is:  Are there any other benefits of
> 0.36 that I would notice or enjoy?
> Thanks and 73    Craig   AC0DS
>
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[Bob Cunnings NW8L]

I'm using 0.36, and like you have no need to use the function key
implementation of QSY tap/hold. However, I do run LP-Pan/PowerSDR
concurrently with the P3 at times and the 0.36 serial port changes
have eliminated some problems I was experiencing in that case. But
beyond that, nothing else noticed or enjoyed.

Here's another un-original idea: how about static band edge markers on
the P3? These would be vertical red lines on the spectrum display to
demarcate the ham bands. I like having these in the PowerSDR display
when hopping around the band, to have a rough idea of my position
relative to the bottom of the CW band. Sure, there is a numerical
readout of cursor position, but panadaptor tuning is supposed to be an
unabashedly visual experience, right? At present I use the VFO B
marker for this purpose, parking it at the lower band edge. This is
particularly useful when CENTER has been held and I'm surveying the
band by changing the center frequency using the QSY knob.

Bob NW8L

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Craig D. Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I'm considering installing the 0.36 P3 firmware, but am not in the habit of
> using beta versions of the K3 firmware, which is required for total support
> of 0.36.  I do not use HRD or have any other known response/latency issues.
> Also no immediate plans to use the function key implementation of QSY
> tap/hold.  Release notes indicate that these are the main improvements in
> 0.36.
> My question for folks who have tried it is:  Are there any other benefits of
> 0.36 that I would notice or enjoy?
> Thanks and 73    Craig   AC0DS
>

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[Don Cunningham]

Bob,
I like your idea of "static band edges", but would like to add for Elecraft
consideration,  band edges settable by our license class so we can remember
our own "band edges" assigned on some bands!!  Would solve this old guy
having to look constantly at a current frequency list to see if I can
operate there, hi.
73,
Don, WB5HAK

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[John Ragle]

  From another old Geezer...

     The solution to the band edge problem is to upgrade to Extra
Class...just think of all those extra Hertzls!

John Ragle -- W1ZI

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On 9/20/2010 11:11 AM, Don Cunningham wrote:
> Bob,
> I like your idea of "static band edges", but would like to add for Elecraft
> consideration,  band edges settable by our license class so we can remember
> our own "band edges" assigned on some bands!!  Would solve this old guy
> having to look constantly at a current frequency list to see if I can
> operate there, hi.
> 73,
> Don, WB5HAK

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[Don Cunningham]

I know, John, but I'm just a stubborn old geezer, and my mind wants to
believe that my Advanced class license just reassures me that I had to take
a "real" exam, with schematics, to get it, hi.  Truth more likely is that
I'm just too lazy and don't see much benefit to me the way I operate.  75
meters is my worst to remember, for some reason.  Just a thought, but surely
red lines on P3 would stop me from making an error.
73,
Don, WB5HAK

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[David Pratt]

In a recent message, Bob Cunnings <[hidden email]> writes
>Here's another un-original idea: how about static band edge markers on
>the P3? These would be vertical red lines on the spectrum display to
>demarcate the ham bands.

Not a good idea, Bob, unless the band edges can be user programmable.
The band edges are not the same for everyone.  Let's not complicate the
issue; there are more pressing priorities.

73 de David G4DMP



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