LF: Re: Opera v1.3.3 - a disaster

["Gary G4WGT" <g4wgt@tiscali.co.uk>]

LF,

Mike G3XDV wrote :-
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This is just a text error & the software will not transmit above
137.800kHz

Of course it will if you use a DDS or similar, rather than audio
drive.
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Mike.....It would have been good if you had extracted the whole of the 
sentence I wrote.... Note the reference to DDS users..... :-
This is just a text error & the software will not transmit above 137.800kHz 
but users of DDS frequency control may accidentally select an incorrect 
drive frequency beyond the upper band edge.
73, Gary - G4WGT.






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Dennison" <mike.dennison@ntlworld.com>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 6:03 PM
Subject: LF: Opera v1.3.3 - a disaster


> On 7 Mar 2012 at 14:04, Gary G4WGT wrote:
>
> > Please will note that on Opera v1.3.3 the frequency listing for 137kHz
> > Op8 shows 137.6 to 138.0........It should be 137.6 to 137.8
> You are joking, right?
>
> Are you seriously suggesting that Op8 is compatible with the QRSS60
> DX window at 137.777?
>
> I am not even sure I want to struggle to decipher Op8 by eye in
> amongst genuine QRSS transmissions in the very long-established
> QRSS3/10 window at 137.700 +/- 50Hz
>
> Who makes these decisions? They certainly don't seem to have any
> regard for established (and widely published) bandplans.
>
> And what happened to Op32 in this new version? It seems to have been
> arbitrarily dropped.
>
> The Opera activity on 137 was declining, though I was active daily.
> They have just lost me as a user.
>
> > This is just a text error & the software will not transmit above
> > 137.800kHz
> Of course it will if you use a DDS or similar, rather than audio
> drive.
>
> > On no account must you transmit above 137.800kHz as you will be out of
> > band.
> Or on top of other established modes (which you will not be able to
> detect) as you will annoy people.
>
> Sorry, Gary. I know you are only the messenger, but this make me
> absolutely furious.
>
> Mike, G3XDV
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