My sBitx
I bought my sBitx because of a video where it claimed to be a CW Dream Machine. I bought only the? board since I already had the other components in my shack. If you use a keyboard for cw then you might declare it dreamy but if you prefer using paddles or a straight key, like myself, it was less than that.
The latest 64 bit version 4 software update made things a lot better.? Sometimes it will miss a leading character but so much better than before. It would be nice if at least the straight key mode could be interrupt driven and bypass the encoding, decoding stuff and go straight to keying the radio. I have no problem using an external keyer.
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Aside from those issues I have become fond of editing the software for my own personal needs. Unfortunately this became a problem with software updates as it would wipe out all my efforts. So, I asked ChatGPT to write a program that looked through the lines of code for changes I made that were marked with //ak2b.
i.e
pi@sbitx:~/sbitx $ ./findak2b src/sbitx_gtk.c
?? ? ? ? {0.066,0.082,0.361}, ? ? // COLOR_BACKGROUND//ak2b
?? ? ? ? {0.690,0.075,0.353},? ? //SPECTRUM_BACKGROUND//ak2b
? ? ? ? {FONT_FIELD_LABEL, 0.388, 0.717, 0.968, "Mono", 14, CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_NORMAL, CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL},//ak2b
? ? ? ? {FONT_CW_RX, 0, 1, 0, "Mono", 14, CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_NORMAL, ? ? ? ? CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL},//ak2b
? ? ? ? //line below added above int y = f-y; //ak2b
? ? ? ? console_cols = console_cols -6;//ak2b
? ? ? ? int y = f->y; //ak2b
? ? ? ? field_move("SET",686,screen_height - 140 ,45 ,45);? //ak2b
? ? ? ? field_move("CW_INPUT", 5, screen_height - 140, 75 , 45);//ak2b
? ? ? ? field_move("SIDETONE", 5, screen_height - 90, 75, 45);//ak2b
?? ? ? ? //oled_toggle_band();//ak2b
?? ? ? ? focus_field(get_field("#step")); //ak2b
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At some later date I might ask Chat CPT to insert these lines into the updated files. For now though I’m going to set back and marvel on how easy that was. ChatGPT even gave me the command to compile the code.
The amazing thing is I know little about c programming, let alone Linux!
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There are times with this radio that have been very frustrating but when I put it away in the closet it is not long before I pull it out again because my 78 year old mind has thought of other ways to mess with this radio. You just can’t do that with an Icom!
