On Feb 20, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Fred Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> […] Averaging tends to suppress noise and can make weak signals stand out 
> better.  Averaging would work in Tracking mode except that every time you 
> tuned ... even 1 Hz ... the averaging would have to start over.  Someone 
> asked about this not long ago, his spectrum "jumped" every time he tuned.

It does start over, but it doesn’t have to. It could keep the averaged data for 
the portion that used to be in the window and build up an average for the new 
portion. It would look odd for a moment, but operators would get used to it.

Yes, the programming is harder and I know the processor hits the wall at some 
point. But it would be worth it. With frequency bins, you could even save some 
averaging information on a scan change. Plus, as soon as Elecraft did this, 
every other bandscope would be obsolete.

My first rig was a borrowed IC-756. It was really nice, but losing the 
averaging on the band scope bugged the snot out of me every single time I 
turned the big knob.

wunder
K6WRU
CM87wj
http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)

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