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 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
