This thread has revealed the "dirty little secret" of ANY digital
microcomputer controlled radio: You give up some simultaneous functions
when you go to a serially controlled, clocked, and programmed control
routine. I had not thought about the independence of the controls of all my
analog radios before; but they are truly pretty independent processes. But
any radio with "soft" controls and encoders; all going back to some finite
delay programmed step software; is going to lack the ability to do
everything at once.
Thus, radios are going to be either of one kind or the other; and you will
have to live with the nature of control programming, and accept some minute
delay, until things settle down or an interrupt can be serviced in the
priority it was assigned by the program. Not a show stopper but a new way
of operating for some, I guess. Frankly, I am with the person who just trys
to send CW without turning over the coffee cup.
Interesting observations about the limits of digital based radios!
73,
Stuart
K5KVH
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