On Aug 9, 2008, at 10:05 PM, Ted wrote: > I miss the D'Arsonval S-meters with the face edge lit by a #47 bulb.
But you want the kind with the arrow pointer. You know, we have been thinking about this all wrong! The *real* future for PowerSDR is with plug-in GUI components. That way we can construct a transceiver that looks any way we want it to! You can have a Magic Eye tube plug-in and then tie that to any indication function. I'm thinking that the Magic Eye tube would be AWESOME as an ALC indicator. And you have to have the massive edge-lit cream colored S- meter. There should even be a drop-in screen that shows a couple of 811s. As you transmit the cathode ray glow on the glass flickers in time with your modulation. If you are pushing the radio hard you can even see the plates start to glow deep red. Frequency read-out should be with nixie tubes and controlled by a National HRO tuning dial. The possibilities are endless! -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
