Are BAND MARKERS Somewhere in our future ?

Why? By that time the program is written all hams will be granted Amateur Radio Extra Class licenses and there would be no need for band segments. I applied for mine and I got one. You can do the same if you know which side of a pencil you use for writing.

Ken, I keep up with FRS and I don't think that anyone else has proposed that. I know that FRS radios have different band plans for countries that they sell to. When you open SmartSDR it said the region that is it set for. I know what you are saying and I believe your idea would be a good one; then you know if you are operating within your bands limits. However, I hope the current license operators know the band edge for their license privilege. Or is this is not being though by the guaranty pass in so many hours? Or, go for tech to extra in one sitting? By the way, you can open it for suggestion and let's see how many like your idea? If enough think is good, the next thing we have to do is pay for their work by integrating it into a future release. Finally, my last comment was meant for todays HAMS?

ken, ck out: http://community.flexradio.com/flexradio/topics/band_plans 73

N5FD - Bruce Some only care about the bottom 25 kilohertz anyway. So if one learns the lower limit on the standard bands only the WARC bands need attention. There is a unkown marker at the low end on 18 MHZ band so not problem. With the Flex radios one can see the modes in action by the waveforms on the panadapter e.g. interrupted signals vs, "double **** rtty" etc. Much clearer on a waterfall. So the band plan is visible for the most part. I go for the bottoms of each band -- perhaps that makes me a "bottom feeder". I'm OK either way either for or against band edge markers.But lean against clutter The nice frequency readout makes it easy to know ones own frequency to several decimal places.

When I first thought of this functionality, the idea of just tinting the background slightly with a color coordinated by license class or allowed mode.