As a result of feedback from a number of interested amateurs, version 1.07y is now available. This is of particular interest to the US community, as this firmware now incorporates the ability to selecte either the Extra or the General Class licence band limits for the out-of-band detection.
It also fixes a minor anomaly. I had overlooked the fact that in the US you are allowed to operate on the lowere 10kHz of 160m, unlike us in Europe, but I had omitted to adjust the 160m lower limit in the previous versions, this is now fixed.
Another suggestion, this time from Jan, WI3CK, concerned the CW/CWR modes. If you wish to accurately tune a CW signal it is useful to have the same pitch in both of these modes, which involved switching between them to adjust the frequency. With the existing MODE selection method that was somewhat tedious. His suggestion was to use the FILTER button to switch back to CW from CWR. This is now incorporated with an option switch to disable this and operate as before if you do not wish to use it.
The selection of the Extra/General licence class band limits is not something that would be performed very often, and so it made more sense to relocate this option from the User Configuration to the Service module. This also has the benefit of ensuring that it does not get accidentally changed. As a result this new version will cause a checksum error on initial load, please save your existing calibration and user settings before you load this version.
The revised User Manual for this version incorporates both a quick reference guide as well as 'cheat-sheets' that you can fill in with your calibration and user settings. As before, this is NOT an official update, merely my custonisation of this little gem. You can get it by sending me an email to: adrian04@cytanet.com.cy and I'll be happy to send you the load file and the new User Manual.
73, Adrian, 5B4AIY