Pardon the interruption, but while watching this interesting thread as a <gasp!> ex Product Development Manager with a <shudder> engineering/operations background, I have a little itty bitty, teensy weensy question on your proposed use case scenario:
|If I hear someone that is answering my CQ, but is off by 300 Hz from my "pitch" freq. then I can simply turn on |the RIT (or already start with it on) and hit the SPOT button.. NOW, this gives me the ability to QUICKLY turn |the WIDTH knob all the way down to 50 Hz KNOWING that the person answering my call is right in the center of my |Passband, and I'm not going to loose him as I narrow down. How does the radio choose the specific pitch to center up when there is more than one caller within your passband? Frequency? Level? Random? Do you expect the product to *choose the one specific station* that your mind chooses to "match pitch" to without a telepathy subroutine, or will you always be happy with the radio's choice? If not, then how do you tell the radio to center that *one specific caller* at that *one specific tone frequency* that you want? In the existing GUI, the functionality to cover this decision point is "twist the RIT knob". How do you propose to modify the GUI functionality to do what you want and get consistent results? Not being flippant, but I just wonder, from a product functionality development angle, if you have considered all the use cases scenarios for the requested feature. While I agree that, on the surface, the feature has merit on paper, the "real world" often brings "unexpected results" to perfectly viable use cases. I used to be in Automation. Funny thing about Automation... It always worked flawlessly. It only broke when it was given wrong or incomplete information by its users who assumed it would think for them. Lu Romero W4LT "Product Management is not a job for the faint of heart" ...Jim Layton, Harris Broadcast No virus found in this outgoing message Checked by PC Tools AntiVirus (6.1.0.25 - 6.14440). http://www.pctools.com/free-antivirus/ ______________________________________________________________ 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
