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out of date by the time you viewed it.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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