Analog S-meter option in SmartSDR PLEASE !

Steve KD2OM,

S-units most certainly are a real measurement.  An S9 is equivalent to 50 microvolts.

As I've stated repeatedly in multiple threads, an S-meter should report only the peak voltage measured within the passband, nothing more and nothing less.  Any nonsense talk of "integrating the power in the passband" (as the Flex meter does, according to the Flex engineers) corrupts the very definition of an S-meter. Any S-meter reading should be directly correlate-able to a dBm (or dBμV) scale on the edge of the spectrum display, but the Flex S-meter reading clearly changes according to the width of the passband, and so consequently has no correlation with the dBm scale in the spectrum display, which is patently absurd, and which prima facie renders any given Flex S-meter reading meaningless.

For a perfect example of a correctly functioning S-meter, see Simon Brown's SDR Console. His S-meter reading directly correlates with the dBm scale in the spectrum display, and doesn't change simply because the operator changes the passband width.

And with that said, I'm done here. I've argued the S-meter point ad nauseum in the Flex community forum, and it's abundantly clear to me that Flex is never going to change their "integrating the power in the passband" mentality on the issue.  And given that glaring basic engineering flaw and a number of other exasperating Flex-related issues, I've moved on. I no longer own a Flex (I own the latest Anan now), so I'm no longer stuck with waiting (and waiting, and waiting) for Flex to ever do the right thing.

I'll see myself out, and best of luck to you all.

73, Mark K1LSB