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Slice confusion in DX4WIN (and others?)

Duane_AC5AA
Duane_AC5AA Member ✭✭✭
edited May 2018 in FLEX-6000 Signature Series
Thanks to K0EOO I've gotten most of DX4WIN to work with SmartCAT and the 6500 as long as I remember the magic incantations.  However, there are still issues, and I don't know if it's related to using the Kenwood instruction set, SCat, or DX4WIN issues.  I suspect one of the two former ones.  If I happen to be using SliceB to work a station simplex, and then log it, or attempt to generate a spot for the cluster, it will automatically pick up Slice A's information (frequency, mode, etc.)  It should be looking at the slice that has focus - I wonder where the problem resides?  

This brings up a second question.  Does a list of recognized problems/issues/concerns exist that we can consult prior to listing a "problem" or "question?"  I scan the community for similar issues before writing one, but sometimes that can be hard to sort out.  

Thanks, everyone - great community here, and good responses!

Answers

  • Tim - W4TME
    Tim - W4TME Administrator, FlexRadio Employee admin
    edited March 2017
    All CAT enabled third-party programs are designed for VFO-A and VFO-B type radios, not multi-slice radios.  The SmartSDR CAT implementation follows this de facto standard by only operating on slice A (as VFO-A) and slice B (as VFO-B).  This is covered in the SmartSDR CAT documentation.

    We do not have an on-line list of reported or active defects. You just need to search the community and then ask the question or report the problem if you cannot find a reference to it.
  • k0eoo
    k0eoo Member ✭✭✭
    edited March 2017
    Hi Duane, Tim is said it all...  DX4WIN and all the other logging programs only see VFO-A for clicking on a spot and logging the band, Freq and so on....  I always keep VFO-A and VFO-B for the QSX freq on the band of interest so when I double click on a spot I get the right info set into the log....  Dennis, k0eoo
  • Duane_AC5AA
    Duane_AC5AA Member ✭✭✭
    edited May 2018

    OK, and this is "the way it currently is" for a "2-VFO" transceiver.  Those with rigs that fit this description, including the FLEX-6300 will probably have no issues with that answer.  However, the whole point of the 6500 and 6700 is that extra slices (either 2 or 6 of them) are now available.  I could be listening to (for example) a DXpedition on two different bands, with QSX for each, meaning all four of my slices are assigned.  Looks like the "other" band is suddenly looking better - how do I now, quickly, work and log him?  Either we need a quick method to reassign Slice(n) to VFO-A and Slice(m) to VFO-B, or some other method that more intelligently determines which slice is used for TX and which for RX.  Someone with a 6700 will have the same problem but in spades!  That's part of the beauty of a new paradigm in radios - new ways to use them that don't fit the old mold!  Now Flex could decide they're only going to mimic current radios in their instruction sets, but I think that would be a shortsighted answer. 



  • k0eoo
    k0eoo Member ✭✭✭
    edited March 2017
    I think Flex and others are giving all these ideas some thought.  I expect we'll be able to define what VFO/Slice gets logged  and so on in the future, I just don't know when that might be....  In the mean time I plan to use the other slices to monitor bands of interest and keep VFOA/B on the slice I'm currently working....  Its a bit awkward but its going to take time before the ROW gets hip to power of the slice, hi, hi....

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