I wholeheartedly agree. This behaviour has always irked me. 73 Stephen G4SJP
On 18 May 2011 17:27, Guy Olinger K2AV <olin...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > They're not likely to see this, rolling up to Dayton, but rolling the > s-meter up scale as you roll the RF gain back is making a digital > radio behave like an analog radio just to keep from all the complaints > that it's broke because it doesn't act analog. The designer knows > full well that we tolerate changes very poorly, even changes that are > huge improvements. Remember that the analog S-meter was a voltage on a > bus that controlled gain all over the RX. When you manually reduced > the gain, that changed the resting voltage on that circuit and > "buried" any movement less than that voltage. Hence the familiar > covering up of voltage changes for signals less than the increased > threshold. > > If one has chosen "absolute" s-meter performance which is already > un-analog, it would be nice to see the input level regardless of the > RF gain setting, and perhaps just slow "plink" only the top segment > that would be "covered" with the analog convention. > > 73, Guy. > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire <r...@cobi.biz> wrote: >> Sometimes we're just too picky about that "S-Meter". Many years ago (almost >> before my time) a number of receivers had no meter but instead calibrated >> the gain control in S-units (or the S-unit's ancestor, the "R-unit"). If you >> wanted to see how strong the signal was, set the gain for a comfortable >> volume and check the position of the knob. Of course 99% of us reported >> signal strength "by ear" and didn't need a "calibrated" knob, Hi! >> >> I'm not entirely sure today's rigs are an improvement, at least in the area >> of receiver gain control. They are, however, much more "automatic" and with >> that comes limitations. I'm a heavy user of the ATTEN, Preamp and RF gain >> control in any receiver. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
