I's been suggested to me by someone not on this reflector (shame), that the power control should perhaps be logarithmic - running in dB. That sounds like a good idea.
On 16/1/08 16:02, "David Ferrington, M0XDF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > Yes, I'm not complaining and Wayne has said there will be a low power tune > option coming. > > Wayne/Eric, perhaps it would be a good idea to maintain a public list of all > the enhancement requests, so people know whats been asked for? > This could be done at Zerobeat, but it would take a while to compile the list. > > > Anyway, a number of posibilities for Elecraft to consider at some future date: > 1) A Main Menu item to set power control coarseness > 2) A CONFIG menu item to set coarseness > 3) A MAIN MENU item to switch 'MON' from monitor to an alternative 'rate' of > power control and then a hold of MON would switch from fine to course. > 4) Then to satisfy those who want course more often than fine, a CONFIG item > to toggle PWR and MON-PWR so one is course and one is fine and you can choose > which one is 'normal' power. > > On 16/1/08 15:02, "Charles Fulp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > >> You are right David! >> If the knob went from 0 to 120 with 1 almost full rotation, I would >> think that was reasonable, but seems to me it is a LOT of cranking to go >> from 120 to 4 or 5, even for occasional fun changes... nicely precise >> though. >> >> a few presets would be very nice or tuning rate change for the power >> knob would be workable. >> >> I would not be surprised if something like that happens, knowing the way >> the engineers at Elecraft work. >> >> Plenty of little things that can be fixed, but it is miles ahead of the >> early (and my guess present) Orions, in user interface. -- An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, "Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do." -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745) _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
