Ron, a couple of things.  First of all, and this is probably obvious to most 
folks, but JJRadio supports a refreshable braille display as opposed to a 
braille printer, which I think of as a device that prints braille on paper.

Secondly, I've tried to come up with a way to do an audio pan adapter, and 
then realized it's best done by the scan feature already present in JJRadio. 
I think a pan adapter is truly a visual thing, and the best way to do that 
is with a braille display.  So, without a braille display, the pan adapter 
is useless in JJRadio, and will remain so as far as I can imagine.  However, 
the scanning feature will work nicely, because it allows you to pause the 
scan, look around, and then either resume  the scan or end it.  You can also 
save and recall scans, allowing you to define, and quickly recall, scans for 
the areas you wish to scan.

hth
--
Jim, KE5AL
-----Original Message----- 
From: Dr. Ronald E. Milliman
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 11:28 AM
To: 'Jim Shaffer'
Cc: 'For blind ham radio operators'
Subject: RE: JJRadio now supports the Flex 6300

Jim, again, just as an observation, you place almost total emphasis on
Braille output. I don't know how many of us have Braille printers, but I
suspect many more of us have speech output as opposed to a Braille printer
for outputting the program's information. If you symbolize signal strength
in terms of the number of Braille dots, how do you express signal strength
for screen readers?

Jim, once again, I highly commend you for your investment of time and
efforts in creating and providing your J J Radio program. It appears to be
an especially major benefit for blind access to the Flex transceiver.

Ron, K8HSY



-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Jim Shaffer
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 10:51 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: JJRadio now supports the Flex 6300

Don, a well thought out set of questions.

> 1. what kind of access do we have to the radios features such as
> controlling noise reduction, manipulating filters IF shift ect.

You can control the AGC speed and level, the low and high filter bandwidth,
the CW APF, autopeaking filter, the automatic notch filter, the noise
blanker and noise reduction.  You can control the filtering on the other
rigs as well, not just the Flex.

On the Flex, you can also define and adjust their tracking notch filters,
TNFs.  In brief, these are filters that maintain their position, and are
handy for filtering out fixed position birdies and carriers.

> 2. Can we adctually define a filter on the fly?

See above.

> 3. What kinds of things can't be done at this point that you see
> posibility for in the future.

Well, at present, JJRadio doesn't support saving/restoring multiple
configurations, and only supports one profile.  The Flex allows you to, for
example, save multiple configurations in profiles, and then load those
depending on what you want to do.  For example, you might have rag chew
settings that equalize the audio for quality, and then DX settings that
equalize the audio for maximum punch.

One thing I plan to do soon concerns how signal strength is shown in the pan
adapter.  Currently, the strength shown is relative to what's on the air at
the time.  I use the number of dots in a cell to indicate signal strength,
using 1 to 6 dots, 1 for the noise floor, and 6 for the strongest signal on
the band.  So, if you have a quiet band, you'll see perhaps a 6-dot signal
which is really very weak, or even just some relatively quiet noise.  I want
to change this so that more dots represent a truly stronger signal.  I hope
that made sense.

> 4. What kinds of things  (features) does the radio offer that you
> think we will never be able to take advantage of?

The pan adapter allows you to not only view what's happening on the band
now, but what has happened over a period of time.  I'm not sure how to
represent all that information in a useable form with one line of braille.
Even using multiple lines, with a one-line display, the information would be
out of date by the time you viewed it.
--
Jim, KE5AL


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