ab2tc wrote:
>
>
> Adding a new command for a dBm report would not break any existing
> software. A resolution of 1 S unit or 5dB is really unsatisfactory.
>
>
Changing the functionality of the BG or SM commands so they could provide
greater resolution *would* break software, which is what I was saying. But
while I can see that having software access to the dBm reading could be
useful for antenna measurement purposes, given the vagaries of propagation I
would have thought that a 1 S-unit resolution was perfectly adequate for
normal purposes. I cannot see how it would be more useful to be told I am
S6.5 rather than S6 or S7, or even S5 or S8! Whatever the reading is it is
going to be different 20 seconds later anyway.
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