Hi Pete,
I was thinking you're still working
with tubes...;-)
73, df5qg
Christian Groeger
M0FMT <
[email protected]>
schrieb:
>Hi all
>
>This is an open letter to all
PIC based designers form a frustrated
constructor.......
>
>"....
>
>
>As
with all construction articles that contain a Micro Processor chip is that
the one vital ingredient to make it is the HEX code. It is as vital as the
0.01 mF decoupling capacitor that goes across the Vcc to
ground.
>
>It is IMHO and most guys I have spoken to
over the air that a construction article that has a PIC in the BOM is so much
wasted paper. The Radcom being a typical magazine that delights in publishing
the schematic of a PIC based project but doesn't publish the Hex script. My
guess is the so called editors have no construction experience and do not
understand the significance of what they are publishing. I think peoples
hearts sink when they look down the BOM and see 16F84 or what
ever.
>
>The people who look at these sorts of articles are
constructor like me not Code designers otherwise they wouldn't need a
construction article at all, because they would be busily designing there own
code .... wouldn't they. I have a G3--- friend who is a great
constructor. Nothing in his shack is commercial ready made. He has a prodigious
output of excellent TX and RX designs, keyers and SDR projects, nothing with a
PIC. I have encouraged him to take advantage of the facility to be found in a
PIC based project but he considers them black magic. Because of the RADCOM
and other mags that trot these PIC based projects out with little concern if any
one actually builds them they are referred to as space fillers of little
interest and are intensely frustrating. This sort of incomplete article can
be an ego trip for the writer with the publishing editor oblivious to what
is in the big blank square in the middle of the schematic.
>
>So
this mail is an appeal to you and all other PIC based designers please, please
publish the HEX code. It doesn't take much space on a page and simple for
someone to scan the code and use word recognition software to convert it along
with a bit of manual editing if necessary. Otherwise I would say don't
bother publishing your designs.
>
>Sorry for the venting but just
going through yet another "Oh B*!$$er it's got a PIC in it" article that looked
promising.
>
>73 es GL Pete M0FMT
IO91UX
