Spot on Guy. I ran into that mentality when working for a well known defense contractor on the 80's and 90's. They passed me two years in a row when raise time came because I was doing it. My bossett had no understanding of look up tables or even struct's in C language.
73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 13:29:56 -0400, Guy Olinger K2AV <[email protected]> wrote: >The real deal would be why the over-polling is necessary in the first place. > I'd guess it's done to service ALL the different rig types (not just >Elecraft and K3) with a single strip of code, instead of pushing those >constants at program startup based on the target or configured hardware. > >If it's not cheep code, then it's certainly not state of the art, nor at all >close. One always should have a constants library which carries the array >of values necessary to drive any hardware timing sensitive code. > >Where I worked at my last TWO places of employment, going back to an AT&T >school in 1976 (!), embedding target-variable constants in program code and >using code switches would get your code summarily rejected by a reviewer or >auditor, subject one to an auditor approved redesign and recode (with prior >effort flushed down the turlet), and have an effect on one's pay grade. >There was a brutal "standards are just that" attitude. Putting in the table >driven code costs some in the beginning, but saves huge in maintenance, and >a maze of switches eventually means recoding in its entirety. > >That's probably what we're really fighting with the HRD code. Otherwise it's >a simple table change that gets done in seconds, and then recompiled. > >73, Guy. > >On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Alan Sewell N5NA <[email protected]>wrote: > >> This is a problem not only for HRD but any software in which the AGC >> status is polled continuously. I frequently use CQ/X by NO5W and had >> the same problem. Chuck turned off the AGC polling in CQ/X and the >> problem no longer occurs. Of course, now the AGC status can't be shown >> in his remote interface. >> >> I sent Wayne, N6KR, a couple of log files from portmon back in July >> showing what was happening but so far I haven't seen any updates on this. >> >> 73, Alan N5NA >> >> > ------------------------------ >> > >> > Message: 39 >> > Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:11:21 +0100 >> > From: David Honey<[email protected]> >> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Sudden K3 AGC pop-off after adding P3 >> > To:[email protected] >> > Message-ID:<[email protected]> >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> > >> > Dan, >> > >> > This is a known issue with HRD used with the K3. It happens with me a >> > few times a week with my K3+P3. Reducing the polling rate of the K3 in >> > HRD may reduce the frequency of this issue, but it won't eliminate it. >> > The choice seems to be either put up it, or stop using HRD. Simon Brown >> > has handed over the reins of HRD development, so perhaps the new team >> > can devote some time to investigating and fixing this. >> > >> > vy 73 de David M0DHO >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------ >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> >______________________________________________________________ >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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
