Amen, Guy! I was shocked to receive an email from Wayne on a... Sunday... on Mother's Day no less! Well, it was late afternoon, so I guess it was OK. ;-) Another one came in very late at night.
I suppose you can tell I was a new customer at the time (KX3 #0130) and didn't know any better than to not be surprised. Now I keep the Kool-Aid pitcher close at hand. You bums got me hooked. On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV <[email protected]>wrote: > That's right. My CWT has gotten a little "spastic" since 4.51. Saw that > right away with 4.51 in pre-beta. But I'm not going to monkey with the > settings any more until Wayne publishes the fix. > > 4.51 was an absolutely splendid overhaul of AGC that fixed stuff that no > one could correlate with anything, and added marvelous clarity to multiple > signals with a lot of AGC action. Seems that in DSP log functions that > there was a least significant digit "noise" any time AGC was active. So > now anything that was internally calibrated or tuned to the specific > behavior of the old AGC now has lost the programmed "fit" that made the > function sharp. The AGC had its shoe size change and now some of the old > function "boots" don't fit so good any more. > > Pretty sure they have had the same list of "loose boot" functions since > pre-beta testing. They need time to work on them, and it's been vacation > time. I'll live with the spastic CWT until they get it fixed. The move to > 4.51 was because a lot of people wanted what was being talked about by beta > and pre-beta users of 4.51, but didn't want it unless it was production. > > Folks who really need the text decoder for CW should use some of the later > PC programs which are able to do stable copy down into the noise and keep a > page of text in front of you. In the last few years code copying software > has crossed a threshold into a realm of performance that challenges the > best human copy. That kind of software can never fit into the tight > processing budget of a specialty processor in a portable HF rig. At least > not with anything currently under manufacture at less than premium military > prices. > > But Wayne will get to it. He has a list. > > Elecraft has a fix ratio on reported problems that is several orders of > magnitude beyond any other manufacturer of ham radio equipment. Without a > doubt, the relatively tiny Elecraft is on a par with companies famous in > the commercial world for customer responsiveness, like SAS Institute, the > largest privately held software company in the world with over 10,000 > employees. SAS does it by spending very serious big-time budget bucks on a > huge technical support department where a lot of the staff have the same > kind of high end educational and experience backgrounds as the R&D folks > who design the things. Many of the design changes COME FROM tech support > at SAS, sometimes with the coding changes, based on an accumulation of > customer needs gleaned out of the tech support calls. > > I don't know how Wayne, Eric and company do it. My gut guess of whether a > company the size of Elecraft doing a seriously technical product can do > Elecraft style support, upgrades and improvements, frankly, is that they > CAN'T do it. And that is STILL my best guess, that a company Elecraft's > size just DOES NOT have the critical mass to pull it off . They really > don't, not if they go home after 8 hours and get on with a private life. > Takes people who would rather go to work than a ball game, and wake up in > the middle of the night with a new idea or a solution to a problem. Or > read the reflector with their blackberry sitting on the throne on vacation, > and in the middle of the night. You folks be good to these guys and treat > them with some deferential respect. They surely have earned it. > > Back to the main topic > > Wayne is working on it. > Wayne is working on it. > Wayne is working on it. > Wayne is working on it. > > Oh, did you hear? > > Wayne is working on it. > > 73, Guy. > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Fred Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > With 4.51, the operation of CWT seems to have changed [possibly in my > > mind and not in the radio :-)] The indicator follows band noise > > somewhat erratically regardless of where I put the CWT threshold which I > > think is the same as the CW decode threshold. On a signal, it will > > center and follow the signal as I tune. I used to have it set so only > > strong noise pulses would make it appear until I was on a signal. I > > don't know if it is related to the CW decode or not, but I'm wondering > > if it is just me. I don't use the CW decode feature. > > > > 73, > > > > Fred K6DGW > > - Northern California Contest Club > > - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012 > > - www.cqp.org > > > > On 7/11/2012 8:48 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote: > > > CW decode will be improved in the next release of K3 firmware. > > > Meanwhile, try using a lower AGC threshold and a narrow filter > > > bandwidth. > > > > > > 73, > > > Wayne > > > N6KR > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > 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
