I can understand where Wayne is coming from- bad eHam reviews are sure
to follow if people who don't know how to use these controls are given
access to them.
Scott, N9AA
wayne burdick wrote:
Don,
It was my decision to remove them, for the reasons given below. It's
trivial to add them back in, but debatable as to whether it's a good
idea. I'm open to discussion. Perhaps we could put them back in along
with cautions in the manual.
Please send me a description of how you would use the controls, i.e.
the qualitative effects you have in mind or specific decay values
you've used before, etc. I'd like to evaluate how your needs differ
from the nominal settings already present.
Here's my reasoning for removing some of the controls:
1. Months of field testing revealed that our testers -- despite a wide
variety of operating styles -- barely ever changed any of the settings
except flatness and hold (hang) time.
2. Some combinations of settings can end up being very confusing,
except for the advanced and/or experimentally inclined operator who
can recognize the side effects. This has been endlessly played out on
some of our competitors' rigs. I had sought to avoid such difficulties
once it became clear that there was such a small range in use by our
testers.
3. Some settings can compromise the performance not just of AGC, but
that of other functions, as well (e.g., DSP noise blanking and AGC
pulse detection/removal).
73,
Wayne
N6KR
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