Re: QMX logging - feature?
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Could qso logging, like the elecraft rigs, ever become a thing on the QMX / + radio. Or is the EPROM just not large enough ?
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Just thinking it would mean one less thing to have to pack..?
I don't know which Elecraft Rig you are referring to specifically. But for example: - Elecraft KX2 has a 32K EEPROM chip
- Elecraft?KX3 has a 64K EEPROM chip
- Elecraft?KH1 we don't have a schematic but the logger is stated to be able to record "32 kB of recorded TX text" (32,000 characters) - presumably the other 768 are used by settings, or maybe they really meant KB but not kB and whoever wrote the web page didn't know the distinction between k and K, maybe settings are stored in their microcontroller which also has some EEPROM like an ATmega328 does, I don't know!
- QMX has a 128K EEPROM chip - 4x bigger than a KX2 and 2x bigger than a KX3.?
Currently QMX settings use a total of 1,497 bytes out of the 131,072 bytes in the EEPROM (1.1%). There's also a (little used) log file taking up another 6K (4.7%) so it means the QMX EEPROM is over 94% free, for our future dreams!
I specifically chose a large EEPROM chip so that we would have plenty of space for storing user-defined BASIC scripts, and for logging. I have not devoted ANY attention to it yet, but I dream of a far more sophisticated logging tool than just recording transmitted or decoded received CW. Of course this is future item, it will take time to get to it. I did design the QMX hardware with a lot of planned future capabilities.?
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