That's great.
Makes quite a difference.
73 Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Burdick <[email protected]>
Sent: May 26, 2020 11:32 AM
To: Tom <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Durbin <[email protected]>; Elecraft Reflector
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Auto Information mode
I should have clarified: the K4 will exhibit 100% AI ("auto-info") control
and far faster update speeds.
Wayne
> On May 26, 2020, at 8:30 AM, Wayne Burdick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Tom,
>
> This will also be true of the K4.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
>> On May 26, 2020, at 8:27 AM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>> A little trivia: The AI mode in the Elecraft radios is far from
complete.
>> Only a small subset of commands are available.
>> On Yaesu radios, everything done on the radios is supported with AI
>> and you see orders of magnitude faster performance. In fact it is so
>> fast that you need to implement handshaking on the serial ports to
>> prevent slower computers from buffering the incoming commands. On a
>> Hexa Core I7-9800 CPU usage can hit 30% as it keeps up with all of
>> the commands coming in when you turn the VFO dial rapidly. The
>> resting CPU usage is 1% since no polling is occurring. The AI command
>> is great especially since most of the traffic is usually just the s
meter. So very good meter performance.
>> 73 Tom va2fsq.com
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