WARNING: Alpha! Not even BETA! I just would love some feedback, from a small number of people, I am not ready to release it officially...?
Are there any?super-brave souls who could try out this ALPHA firmware, 1_00_015 candidate which I labelled version 00000000 (I shall call alphas 8 numbers, for identification). The link is:
Note that when you install this, it will automatically perform a factory reset, because I did a lot of re-arrangement to the EEPROM to fix some mapping issues and tidy up.?
I am mostly interested in whether or not there's an improvement to the CW keying glitches, and to the CW sidetone latency. I admit I am nowhere?near as good at CW as a lot of you are, I trundle along at 16wpm. So I cannot easily tell if the sidetone latency is still an issue and my mistakes are more frequent than glitches too.?
This is the full list of changes SO FAR (not final), which is mostly a bunch of bug-fixes. A nice one is that it now remembers the frequency by band. Not returns you to the center frequency (by default FT8 frequency) when you change band.?
Bug fix: Another attempt to improve CW timing glitches.
Removed unused S-meter step parameter.
Remembers frequency by band.
Re-arrangement of EEPROM config - automatically performs factory reset on upgrade to 1_00_015.
Bug fix: if you tuned below 3.2MHz it locked up; now added minimum 3.2MHz frequency to avoid this out of range issue.
Bug fix: PTT output port wasn't enabled; now PTT output is enabled
Bug fix: When in Japanese band limits mode, message sending did not work.
Bug fix: It allowed you to send CW messages when you're in Digi mode!
Bug fix: Some of the Message presets got truncated, due to an EEPROM page boundary issue.
Bug fix: when message editing, pressing the left button on a space didn't move right (if the space was really a null).
Bug fix: substantial reduction in keying to sidetone latency, and sped up sidetone amplitude shaping 10x.
Bug fix: when message editing, on exit of a long message it didn't scroll back to the beginning by itself.
Moved CW-R parameter to the System config menu, alongside Sideband selection
