Re: P3 Beta software Bug?

Posted by Mike K2MK on Apr 26, 2014; 1:02pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/P3-Beta-software-Bug-tp7587926p7587946.html

Hi Alan,

I think you should go a bit deeper and read the data sub mode and the DSP bandwidth and have the transmit cursor agree more closely to how the operator is listening to signals. When I'm operating split in RTTY the last thing I want to see is a 2.7KHz wide red cursor cluttering up the screen. If you can't do this then there could be a menu option to adjust the red cursor width.

73,
Mike K2MK

Alan Bloom wrote

One change in the beta firmware is to make the width of the transmit
cursor in "Data A" mode equal to 2.7 kHz.  The reason is that in Data A
mode there is no way for the firmware to know what the actual bandwidth
is - it can be whatever is coming out the PC's sound card.  So rather
than assume narrow-FSK as in the old firmware, the new firmware makes
the cursor width equal to the SSB bandwidth.

Alan N1AL


On 04/25/2014 05:37 PM, Harry_Yingst via Elecraft wrote:
> I am new to having a P3 (with SVGA).
>
> I loaded the new beta and now there is a red background while in data mode
> Is that the Transmit cursor (I do not recall seeing it before)?
>
>
> I noticed on the VGA monitor the Red will go from Low intensity Red to High
> intensity Red when you change the Waterfall Colors form Default to Grey
> scale.
>