Re: QMX Feature Request - field “tune” mode
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Hi all
I do think?W6CSN's request is fulfilled by the SWR feature in the hardware menu. However, it does need operational convenience improvements as Garrett KC3UNP says. It was already requested and on my list that the frequency and band should default?to the current operating parameters; then the left knob should adjust band and the right knob, frequency.?
Regarding a graphical sweep display: it is my eventual plan (but after other higher priority items) that all the graphical tools in the terminal screens (Image sweep, BPF, LPF, SWR sweep) should also be available in miniature form on the LCD; remember?we only have 8 characters to use for custom graphics but it is nonetheless possible to make a quite usable display from this. Some readers may recall, dare I say it, this QSX video? that demonstrates some code I wrote for that. It just needs to be adapted?and incorporated into QMX.?
On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 8:53?AM Garrett kc3unp < kc3unp@...> wrote: I find that the SWR feature under the hardware tests menu works very well for tuning (and power level of that SWR test is configurable in the setup menu to boot!), though it’s a bit tedious to access for your frequency in question, even if you’ve been in the menu just a minute ago. It would be great to have a shortcut from the operating screen. For anybody doing band switching, I suspect it’s more used than the presets or the A<>B functions (the latter of which has tripped me up a few times)
. Moving the GPS menu item out of the way in the hardware menu would help a bit for starters, but the functionality also suffers from pulling only off of VFO A frequencies, defaulting to a band you’re not operating in, and sometimes resetting your VFO frequency (possibly the worst culprit is the 60m band) when you back out of it.
But it works great both for manual tuning needs as well as triggering an auto tuner, since it’s not a sweep by default. That function has been fantastic, just has some usability quirks at present.?
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