Jim,
congratulations on this work, really "cutting edge" for bats.

Can you tell anything about the mode of signals on the pan adapter? or might
you be able to do so if you scanned it much faster?

Of course frequency gives away probable modes but wonder if you can tell CW
from RTTY or digital modes?

great work!
Tom Fowle WA6IVG

On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 04:38:25PM -0500, Jim Shaffer wrote:
> Some of you know I bought a Flex 6300 rig around the first of August.  Since 
> then, I've been working on accessible software for it, using my JJRadio 
> program.  I now can say I have the Flex working pretty well with JJRadio.
> 
> I implement the pan adapter differently than I did the scanning pan adapters 
> for the Kenwood rigs.  The pan adapter is an integral part of the Flex 
> radios, and I have it working quite well with my 40 character braille 
> display.  It's great to be able to go to a band and use the pan adapter to 
> find signals or clear spots.  I update the pan adapter display every two 
> seconds, which seems good enough.  While not as good as a visual pan adapter 
> and waterfall display, it does work well with a braille display.  I show the 
> signal strength at the corresponding frequency by the number of dots in the 
> corresponding cell.  You can have the pan as wide as you want, and I 
> interpolate to get a frequency close to the signal that exists.  If, for 
> example, I listen on the broadcast band, I can set the pan left side, or low 
> frequency to 540, and the high one to 940, 540 + 400 kHz, and you can see 
> the relative signal strengths for the stations between those points, and 
> jump to the station by pressing the corresponding routing key on the braille 
> display.  Jaws generates a mouse click at that point when you do that.
> 
> The Flex has really sharp filtering, and the selectivity to it is unmatched 
> by any other rig I've had.  Also, on CW, you can set the low and high cutoff 
> frequencies, just like you can with the Kenwood rigs on SSB.
> 
> The 6300 has two slices, and that's all I support at this point.  I treat 
> each slice pretty much just as if they're VFOs A and B.  However, you can 
> listen to both at once, and that's really handy for split DXing.
> 
> I have more to do with it.  I don't have any of the equalization facilities 
> programmed in yet, nor the FM repeater stuff such as CTCSS.  However, I do 
> have enough that the rig is useful and fun to use.  Also, I have not put 
> this latest version out on my web site, as I'm not comfortable releasing it 
> yet, and want to put more into it before I do.  However, if anyone out there 
> has a Flex 6000 series radio, and would like to try it, I'd be happy to send 
> you a copy to see how it works for you.
> --
> Jim Shaffer, KE5AL
> Pflugerville, TX
> www.jjshaffer.net
> www.pgramblers.com 
> 
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