[hpsdr] S meter bug

[Scott Traurig]

Roland,

This is not a bug, this is by design.

See: https://apache-labs.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2463#p5373
"S-meter standard reference levels".

You might not agree with the design, however ;-)

73,

Scott/w-u-2-o


On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 2:20 AM, Roland ETIENNE <roland.etienne at free.fr>
wrote:

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> Hi all, and Doug W5WC,
>
> I have found a little bug with S meter when receiving above 30 MHz. When
> the
> S-meter is displaying S point instead of dBm, I noticed that the display
> jump from S4 to S0 when signals are < 124 dBm, and in fact the 20 dB less
> in
> VHF is missing:
>
>  if (num <= -124.0f) output = "    S0);
>
> should be:
>
>  if (num <= -144.0f) output = "    S0);
>
> (in console.cs lines 29288, 30706, 31011, 31226).
>
>
> Testing a new beacon here on 50 422 MHz was the opportunity to notice this
> problem!
>
> 73 and thanks for the job on the software, greatly appreciated!
> Roland F8CHK.
>
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