[TenTec] Re: [Orion] Orion Issues or Not - kinda long

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

Grant Youngman wrote:
> More explanation?
> 
> Do you mean that a complete sweep consists of 500 samples and that the sweep
> cycles at 1 full sweep every 2 seconds? 
> 
> And your second point is that T_T simply wiggles the display in between
> times to fake us out??  You may be right, but the first question I'd have to
> ask is what are you missing in your measurement? (I'm sure the answer will
> be nothing ... But that doesn't answer the question either) :-)
> 

Here's the problem. An "instant" display of channel activity would only be
usefull in a digital or FM environment. If a sample is 10ms (100 per second)
asuming a given signal would show up at all in 3 samples, then there is 
a less than 1 in 30 chance that a signal would show up at all. So when the
sweep is done, a timer would need to be started for each sample found.
A good time would be 5 seconds. If the timer expires without being reset
to 5 seconds by a sample with something there, it would be shown as blank.

This would give you a better idea of what is hapening on a band because of
the scanning. 

A real time display would have to be a simultaneous display of each "channel"
which would cost far more than anything a ham could afford. Although a scanned
display, with a short enough refresh and hold time would work. I just don't
think it would be of much use telling you what's occupied.

Geoff.

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