Hi, Edwin. I also use Elecraft XG-1 and wholly satisfied S-meter in PowerSDR. These vastly best and truthful than japanese S-meters. Emulation bad S-meters IC, FT, TS - this self-deception and step to back.
SDR1k 1W + Home Made PA Pentium D 2.8GHz, Delta44, WinXP Pro SP2 -- Sergey RW3PS > After a couple of hours of putting together the Elecraft XG-1 kit I > finally calibrated my S meter setting the level to -73dBm and was > surprised to see that the readings were so much lower than that of my > Yaesu FT-847 that it seemed something was wrong. I checked the archives > here and it appears that I'm not the only one to notice a huge > discrepancy between the Flex-Radio and other transceivers. The general > consensus is that the FlexRadio has the most accurate S meter. > > I must admit that I expect my S meter to move every time I receive a > signal so it does seem a bit weird when I'm hearing weak stations and > the meter just doesn't budge. A few other hams who visited the shack > commented on the low readings and when I explained that I read that the > Flex had the more accurate meter my statement raised a few eyebrows. > > So, do we Flexers want our S meters to behave as they have for most of > our lives? Inaccurate but lively or accurate and sluggish? Perhaps it > would be worthwhile to submit a feature request that would address this > situation. Sort of an S meter emmulator. We can ask the designers to > take a few of the most popular transceivers and analyze how their S - > meters behave and have the FlexRadio emmulate it. One day I can set it > to Kenwood 870, or the next day a Yaesu FT-1000 or somesuch. > > I once calibrated my S meter to the signal of a local AM station so that > it would read +60 and I felt more comfortable since the readings were a > lot closer to my Yaesu FT847. Also note that when I tested my Yaesu > FT847 with the Elecraft XG-1 the reading came to +30! That was a real > shocker! Could there be a problem with the Elecraft putting out more > than it should? I don't believe I made any mistakes building the unit > but one never knows. > > What do you think? S meter emulation? Our radios should behave the way > we we're used to, shouldn't they? I'm hitting a guy with +20 and he's > hitting me with S7. It just doesn't seem right. > > Thanks for reading. > > Edwin Marzan > AB2VW > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20061214/60ca70dd/attachment.html > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
