I submit that the current Transmit Profile in SmartSDR should be repurposed and renamed "MODE PROFILE." Because it really should be a personality profile based upon BOTH the mode and purpose being used.
I would love to have the TX profile also save the RX EQ and other settings along with the TX EQ settings. But they should be slice and frequency independent.
Why would this help?
If I am operating CW, I would usually want my RX EQ set to enhance my CW receiver, not set to enhance a SSB signal.... If I am DXing on SSB, I would probably want my RX EQ set to enhance a weak SSB signal. and so on with my RAGChew SSB Profile.. I would want my RX EQ set to reduce noise and smooth out the rough edges of others on the round table. And when I am using RTTY, I probably will always want my TX Filter set to 300 Hz wide, and my RX Filter the same.
Others may say..."Just set a global profile for this" but this is useless if I click a spot for DX and then need a quick way to set these parameters up AFTER I have moved to the DX station's frequency. .... (A Global Profile would change my frequency and other parameters that I DON'T want to change.) If I have changed from a SSB frequency to a CW frequency, I must now manually reconfigure the RX EQ sliders and activate it. Then change the CW filter, turn on APF, and set AGC to "fast" and readjust it..... All to try to pick up a DX station on CW after trying to bust a pileup on SSB.
Now if I work the station and see a new one on SSB I must reverse the process all over again.... Change transmit profile, readjust RX EQ sliders to enhance SSB weak signals, set AGC to MED or SLOW, change RX filter back to 2.7 (because currently, the rig will sometimes change to SSB but NOT change the filter, which remains at 100 from CW or 300 from RTTY) .....
If I am tuning accross 40 Meters looking for DX and come across the guys on my 40 Meter Rag Chew frequency, I will hit the RAGCHEW profile, but I still need to readjust filter width, RX EQ, and AGC speed to match my needs for the rag chew...
Having all of these linked to the TX Profile, or the new MODE PROFILE would simplify things greatly. Yes, they could have these parameters linked to the various MODE selections, but there are differences in the way they would need to be set up whether I am rag chewing or DXing or doing weak signal on 6 meters, or digging a weak one out on noisy 160 meters. The TX profile seems to be the best place to link these parameters.....
Am I alone in this "gadfly" approach to hopping the bands and modes? or are there others who seem to spend more time adjusting these parameters that could be automated easily with a MODE PROFILE? But for whom a total Global Profile is overkill and not useful.
Let's hear some other ideas, folks.
Ken - NM9P
I would love to have the TX profile also save the RX EQ and other settings along with the TX EQ settings. But they should be slice and frequency independent.
Why would this help?
If I am operating CW, I would usually want my RX EQ set to enhance my CW receiver, not set to enhance a SSB signal.... If I am DXing on SSB, I would probably want my RX EQ set to enhance a weak SSB signal. and so on with my RAGChew SSB Profile.. I would want my RX EQ set to reduce noise and smooth out the rough edges of others on the round table. And when I am using RTTY, I probably will always want my TX Filter set to 300 Hz wide, and my RX Filter the same.
Others may say..."Just set a global profile for this" but this is useless if I click a spot for DX and then need a quick way to set these parameters up AFTER I have moved to the DX station's frequency. .... (A Global Profile would change my frequency and other parameters that I DON'T want to change.) If I have changed from a SSB frequency to a CW frequency, I must now manually reconfigure the RX EQ sliders and activate it. Then change the CW filter, turn on APF, and set AGC to "fast" and readjust it..... All to try to pick up a DX station on CW after trying to bust a pileup on SSB.
Now if I work the station and see a new one on SSB I must reverse the process all over again.... Change transmit profile, readjust RX EQ sliders to enhance SSB weak signals, set AGC to MED or SLOW, change RX filter back to 2.7 (because currently, the rig will sometimes change to SSB but NOT change the filter, which remains at 100 from CW or 300 from RTTY) .....
If I am tuning accross 40 Meters looking for DX and come across the guys on my 40 Meter Rag Chew frequency, I will hit the RAGCHEW profile, but I still need to readjust filter width, RX EQ, and AGC speed to match my needs for the rag chew...
Having all of these linked to the TX Profile, or the new MODE PROFILE would simplify things greatly. Yes, they could have these parameters linked to the various MODE selections, but there are differences in the way they would need to be set up whether I am rag chewing or DXing or doing weak signal on 6 meters, or digging a weak one out on noisy 160 meters. The TX profile seems to be the best place to link these parameters.....
Am I alone in this "gadfly" approach to hopping the bands and modes? or are there others who seem to spend more time adjusting these parameters that could be automated easily with a MODE PROFILE? But for whom a total Global Profile is overkill and not useful.
Let's hear some other ideas, folks.
Ken - NM9P
Ken - NM9P, Elmer
WH6HI - Pat
Pat WR1Z
Ken - NM9P, Elmer
But if you jump around a lot utilizing the spotting networks, and click on a spot which takes you to the DX station's frequency on a different mode, you cannot hit a Global Profile to set all your other parameters the way you want to because the Global Profile also changes your pan, slice and frequency.
Implementing a 'Mode Profile" would allow all of those operating parameters to be easily changed, independent of your frequency.
Basically, what I am asking is to shift a few of the parameters from the Global Profiles into the subset of "Transmit" or "Mode" Profile so that they can be changed as a group once I have already arrived at a frequency.
WH6HI - Pat
Pat
DrTeeth
I would like to be able to store mode profiles, so I could save all the RTTY sections of all the bands that I use (for example) and all TX/RX parameters. The idea being that I could run my 6300 as a RTTY rig, all filters, frequencies and everything else set up. Wanting a change of scene, I could load the PSK31 profile etc. Ken's ideas in the OP are so spot on I would like to 'like' his post x10.