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Re: [TenTec] N4PY Pegasus software

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] N4PY Pegasus software
From: Alan Pike <alanpike@mac.com>
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Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 18:38:12 -0400
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Just figured it out!!!  Neat.
Alan
On May 1, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Lee WA3FIY wrote:

> Boy did I have fun today!    I saw in the release notes of Carl's latest 
> version of Pegasus 
> control software that he added color options to the panel.  Yawn.......who 
> cares?   Well....I 
> now care.    :-)    That is a very nice feature.  I doubt it makes the radio 
> work any better but it 
> at least looks like it should.
> 
> I did not care for the default color so I decided to see what I could come up 
> with that might be 
> better.  Long story short, I learned some things about working with custom 
> colors and now 
> have three really nice front panel displays.
> 
> I have a Pegasus, Jupiter and RX-320.  Usually I run the Pegasus as my 
> primary rig with the 
> RX-320 as second (sub) receiver.  That's a great combination by the way.  I 
> use the Jupiter 
> though when I run AirMail with the PK-232SC.
> 
> 'Can get confusing sometimes to this old goat.
> 
> Now my Pegasus version has a front panel that closely resembles the beige 
> color of the 
> Pegasus case and panel.  The Jupiter version has a soft blue panel 
> representing the blue 
> screen on the Jup.  (Black panel did not work so well as it washed out some 
> of the labels  :-)
> 
> Since the RX-320 does not usually have it's own panel on screen but shares 
> the Pegasus 
> panel, I decided to make it's panel stand out when I run it stand alone.  
> It's a nice eye 
> catching red.  Can't miss it!   :-)
> 
> As you can see, it doesn't take much to keep me occupied.  :-) 
> 
> Here are the setting I used:
> 
> I use Color2 in each case and have each control program loaded into it's own 
> folder so each 
> one can be configured independently of the others.
> 
> PEGASUS 
> RED - 240
> GREEN - 230
> BLUE - 200
> 
> JUPITER
> RED - 180
> GREEN - 200
> BLUE - 220
> 
> RX-320
> LO RED
> 
> Thanks Carl!!!
> 
> 
> Has anyone come up with other interesting colors?
> 
> 73,
> 
> -Lee-
> 
> WA3FIY
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