Good evening everybody,
I know this is probably not very high priority to anyone since the v3 source code is front and center right now.?
I still wanted to ask to see what I could get though. I have been using my sBitx v2 for POTA activations. In those activations I use two modes right now, CW and FT8. FT8 works, even with the issues, well enough that I have been having fun with it. I know the v3 software will make a ton of difference here so I am not chasing that any further right now.?
The problem comes with CW... I love everything about the radio...except the audio recovery time in CW. No matter what setting I change, the audio on receive takes long enough that I lose the first "dit" or "dah" of the first letter of a call sign...a lot. To the point that I have been inserting a "dah" when I copy an "A" and it is almost always a "K" and the same goes when I hear an "M"...it is probably a "W" with the "dit" missing. I have asked here a couple of times, but I am not good at communicating with text in email as I have gotten answers that don't solve the problem. No matter where I set the AGC, it all sounds the same, except off where the audio level drops significantly and I have to deal with loud stations manually. This still doesn't fix the problem with the missing character though as I thought it was because the AGC "builds up the audio" from the receive being turned back on after transmitting. It is like you slowly turn up the volume when it switches to receive and you have the AGC enabled and nothing I do will affect this time delay. I tried changing the CW DELAY setting and it too seemed to do nothing at all. No matter what value I put with it, they all do the same thing. Receiver recovery after transmit is slow and I dont know how to fix it.
What am I doing wrong? All I want is that first character... lol. I love the radio and enjoy using it, but I have to have call signs repeated a lot because of this time spent switching to receive from transmit. If it was 100ms I would think I would get the first character more of the time. I can understand missing one occasionally when someone is quick on the key trying to break the pileup, but it is ALOT... I am really hoping that someone has solved this and can guide me to a solution here.
I am really looking forward to seeing what comes of the v3 software too, I like the layout from what I have seen in the photos shared in the group so far.
Thank you all!
David
WK4DS
WK4DS