Has V3 fixed the 4 year old PTT in CW bug?

I wrote this some time ago. "I just checked for this on my 6600M running v3 and the radio mutes properly when the ATU is on. When the ATU is set to Bypass it does not mute."

And today Jan 2, 2020  the radio does not mute whether the ATU is on or off.  My 6600M appears to be possessed by demons, when will Flex take note of these problems?

Bill, thank you I hope so. 

I am using very large separate RX antennas on Top Band, and it appears to me that since the receiver is not muted during transmit, that my own transmissions are getting back into the radio at a very high level and possibly a slight processing delay, throwing me completely off when using a paddle.   

I will probably take the radio to the local shooting range if there is no fix promptly.
  
Flex should consider the possible impact to their sales if a basic issue is not dealt with in a timely manner.   4 years?  Not acceptable.

Whether my ATU is on (Success indicator), or bypassed, activating the MOX does not mute the audio in the CW mode on my 6700.

Allowing a 4 year old bug to continue through multiple software revisions does seem bizarre.  The odd way the Flex-6700 deals with opening a 2M slice has no fix (just a work around).  Maybe FRS has reached a limit to where certain problems just cannot be fixed or further improved; perhaps due to certain hardware limitations.

It would be great if FRS would provide some detailed insight as to what known bugs or improvements are being addressed by their programmers.

Lets keep things in focus here. The last update was Sept 17 2019. Flex will release at least 4 updates per year. In 2019 there were 5. I expect an update soon given the time from the last one. Who knows. The new contracts they are working on have nothing to do with how many updates there will be. Flex has explained this to us.

Flex is not likely to give much information about what they are working on. I have put together some  information that Gerald has given out over the last few years on this subject.
Flex has meetings every Monday to discuss projects, software, fixes. and timelines.  Many things that are on the production board, things they are working on right now could get bumped or stopped, moved ahead depending on many other factor's. In other words projects are always moving. They have to decide what can make it into a given release and what won't. And many times even they don't know what the next release will look like till it is almost ready to go out. This depends on development time, testing, re coding, then more testing. Depending on what it is the testing can take weeks or months.

If we look back at many of the release notes, you will count around 40 to 50 fixes each release. Sometimes lower.

Flex has learned from the past, that if they were to say,, we are working on A B and C for this next update but D G and C was done, people would say,,hey what about the things you said? what about what I think is important? That information remains to be kept internal. And Flex has the right to do so.
So as mentioned above, many things are in constant transition and many thing they hope for do not make it in the next update.
I know for some this is not acceptable. And use this as a way to sling mud at Flex.

According to the Fex engineers, the radio hardware is no were close to being exhausted in it capabilities. And just because Flex has not fixed your personal want's does not mean they can't fix it.

Lets hope!!

I have to backtrack a bit.  Going through all the settings, I just discovered that FDX was activated in my radio.

This certainly explains the racket when I had another slice open on the same band and I am sorry if I was harsh in my judgment.

I have now set a delay of 300mS (!) in the TX Menu (front panel control on 6600M) and I now have relative quiet between CW elements when sending by hand.   

It no longer appears to matter if the ATU is activated or not.   The radio sends a PTT signal to the amplifier when CW is sent, and releases it immediately and the Delay setting in the TX Menu seems to be added to this PTT signal, whereas other delay setting delay the start of transmission..  

This delay seems to be a workable solution for me, although the original issue is how I think things should work.   PTT=MOX with a quick turnaround back to receive. 
  

TF4M, I don't do CW much I admit so this is not much a problem for me. Glad you discovered that FDX thing. I know others have worked with the delay timing as well but I hope Flex will work on a proper fix for it soon as well.