Posted by
Lu Romero - W4LT on
Aug 08, 2011; 6:08pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/P3-Span-control-logic-tp6662585p6665292.html
I have a feeling that I have discovered a container of grubs
with this post.... I guess Don might be right... I should
divorce myself from thinking that Width=Span...
I agree with Joe-W4TV, et. al. regarding the relabeling of
the WIDTH knob to SELECTIVITY. The front panel is already
made... So that cant be changed. But the action is in
SOFTWARE... Can *THAT* be changed?
What is interesting is that I *LIKE* the "backward" action
of the width knob, several others do not... And I agree with
several posters that claim its the way I was "conditioned"
in my sordid past...
And I also agree that the SPAN works the way it works on a
Spectrum Analyzer... But Im not using a Spectrum Analyzer,
Im using a receiver that shows a snapshot of the area of
spectrum it is receiving (yes, that *is* the definition of a
SA...) But you all that have lived with SA's for your whole
careers (Im not a transmitter guy, Im a Post Production guy,
but I had to survive in Transmitter land for a few years)
have an predisposition to look at the P3 as a Spectrum
Analyser (it quacks like the same duck...), and I dont, so
we will agree to disagree on what this tool actually *is* to
a non SA conditioned user.
I can get used to anything, Im easy! But would it be so
gosh danged hard to give us the option of having either
knoob work it either way? Isnt this the "beauty" of
software defined radios?
Burger King tells me that I can "have it my way" as opposed
to McDonalds, where you get it *THEIR* way. Now, I dont eat
any of that crap anymore, but when I did, my burger choice
was always Burger King, because I could hold the pickle and
hold the lettuce, and at McDonald's special orders *ALWAYS*
upset 'em...
The world will not collapse because these knobs dont work
the way all of us want them to, and all of us will adapt one
way or another. I was just making a point that, gee,
wouldnt it be nice for ALL of us to have it *OUR* way?
If its not possible, or if resources and time are such that
it gets put on the low end of the development schedule, so
be it... But I feel good knowing the fact that Im not the
only user of this rig with a brain that came from the jar
with a label that said it belonged to Abby Normal; it would
be a "nice to have" thing. I dont think it is as important
to me as it was for the guy who hacked the radio's volume
pots to change what pot did what because he didnt like the
concentric volume pots the rig was designed with.
And while I could dive into my P3, X-Acto knife and
soldering iron in hand, and fix this myself (and screw up
every *OTHER* logical movement of that control), if it could
be done in a menu si I could choose, life would be so much
nicer for all of us, wouldnt it?
The problem then becomes: Where do we draw the line for
what can be customized and what cant? That is Product
Management's dilema, and not ours.
-lu-w4lt
K3 #3192/P3 # 1301
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