[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I mean, think about it: Here you have a piece of modern computing hardware, > and you are straining your eyes to "average" a fast moving flicker of > numbers on a display. You are going to "die-hard" before you let Dan talk > you into using the computer for the job intended. By golly you are going to > stare your eyes until they fall out of your head before you will have the > programmer change that display! Why? Well, simple, because that's the way > the display was YESTERDAY, and damned if it going to change TOMORROW! This > seems so odd, in light of the concept of an SDR, but there you have it > anyway. Some of us are just going to latch onto a "feature" here and there > and stick to it. Just Hams at work, I guess... > > -Da K6KDK > Is it the refresh rate, the dBm or the fact that other people want to keep it even if you don't that is getting to you, I wonder?
Personally, I prefer the dBm meter to the S meter and, in fact, given the wide variation of calibration for different radios have often thought that the S meter should be banned. The trouble is that some people slavishly follow that meter. I remember that I got a report of 509 once, on 2M CW, from a station. On asking why '0' signal, he said that the S meter on his FT290R wasn't moving, so it must be a zero 'S' report... I think someone has offered a work round which, hopefully, would remove the flickering digits from your eye line, but why do you want to remove the option for others, I wonder? My idea of banning S meters is very probably a minority view and people are entitled to keep their S meters, no matter how inaccurate or calibrated differently from everyone else they may be. At least with dBm it should be about the same value from radio to radio, allowing for the accuracy of the measuring equipment of course. If it's the flicker that bothers you, maybe someone could offer a 'slugged' output that slows the change down? I remember going back to analogue voltmeters because of the fact that the display kept altering on a digital meter as I looked at it, whilst doing tests on protection circuits between 132 kV substations, where the resistance of the circuit was important in calculating what the settings should be. However, I know that digital multimeters are very popular with some people. It's just a personal choice, I wouldn't try to tell another engineer which type of meter he should use, just because it didn't suit me. Dave (G0DJA) _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
