[TenTec] band stacking (was cooling the Orion)

[Martin Ewing]

I find the band stacking registers frustrating.  Why?  For my taste:

1. There should be an on-screen indication of which BS reg you have 
selected.
2.  It should be possible to set and lock the info in the BS regs.

For each band, I would like to be able to switch between a typical CW 
setting (freq, mode & filters), a typical PSK setting, and a typical SSB 
setting, etc.  (Actually, I would like the AGC settings, freq step 
settings, etc, to be included in the mode setup / BS regs.)

This can kinda be done now, but without locking & displaying the 
register setting, my setups get mixed up pretty quickly.

Switching between my normal CW, PSK, and SSB settings now is 
frustrating, because there is too much button-pushing and thinking required.

I bet this is not a big change to the firmware, if TT chooses to implement.

73, Martin AA6E

W4BQF penned:

>Maybe this will help some (I hope!):
>
>Push the '80' mtr button,
>Enter a freq, such as 3.505; set the mode, set the DSP filter,
>Push the '80' mtr button again,
>Ender a freq, such as 3.530, set the mode, set the DSP filter,
>Push the '80' mtr button again,
>Enter a freq, such as 3.875, set the mode, set the DSP filter,
>Push the '80' mtr button again,
>Enter a freq, such as 3.923, set the mode, set the DSP filter,
>Push the '80' mtr button again, but this time the freq, mode and DSP filter
>settings will recall the 3.505 information you previously stored. Now each
>time you push the '80' mtr button it will recall each of the freq, it turn,
>that you had set.
>
>However, lets say you had recalled the 3.530 freq information and you
>randomly tune around and stop on, say 3.545, and then decide to go to 20
>mtrs, when you finish on 20m and go back to 80mtrs, the rig will return to
>the frequency it was at when you QSY'ed to 20 mtrs. In other words,  the
>band stacking memories are active and will not keep the four
>freq/mode/filter settings permanently. When you leave a band and then come
>back to it, the settings that you had when you left that original band is
>what has been stored in the top band stack memory.
>
>It's  more complicated to write about than to actually use it.
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