Robert Pease wrote: > The key there was to have it change the courtesy beep based on signal. 1 > short beep for weak to 5 quick ones for strong.
User-interface wise, that seems backward. You want it "less intrusive" when signals are good, and "more intrusive" when the users need to know they're getting bad. A whole bunch of beeps (to me anyway) signifies what something like an "alarm" does. And you aren't wanting to "alarm" users who are strong. You want the weak ones to know. One short beep for "all good" as a courtesy tone, and a threshold where a "raspberry" or "bee-boop" or multiple beeps starts when users are getting wimpy, seems better to me. No need to have lots of "levels" of feedback to the users, either you're in good or you suck, then tweak the setpoint very accurately and be ready to move it around a bit during initial testing. Just thoughts... (Some of the above thoughts aren't original -- this is similar to what the Pacific Research controller for the Yaesu/Vertex repeaters will act like, all done, built in, on its own. I don't own one, and don't care to own either PR or Vertex repeater gear, but a friend has one, and after careful tweaking, his "raspberry" is pretty accurate.) Nate WY0X
