Re: LF: Si570 oscillator

[M0FMT <m0fmt@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi all

Well you've got it about half right. There is absolutely no point publishing any Amateur radio microprocessor project with out at least printing the HEX code at very least. But when it gets down to it if you want to keep the coding to yourself then don't publish the project at all. What it is, is a narcissistic how clever am I project for the author who wants to sell a load of blown PICs that the user has absolutely no understanding of what he is building. Its of no use to anyone and my guess is that no one actually ever bothers to attempt this type of project. Hex code can easily be printed in the article and scanned by the builder and the converted to ASCII by character recognition software, simple.

Amateur radio is supposed to be about self training. I see very little self training in a project with virtually no peripheral components but a huge amount of processing power running pretty well non understood (to the builder) routines in a blackbox.

There's a parallel here with the "One new PC driven Data mode a week" syndrome as well.

73 es GL Pete M0FMT IO91UX

From: Andy Talbot <andy.g4jnt@gmail.com>
To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
Sent: Monday, 19 March 2012, 22:47
Subject: Re: LF: Si570 oscillator

When did RadCom publish anything with a microcontroller that didn't
have the .HEX code for download?  I don't recall any such project.

My own personal opinion is that anything published should have source
code made available, too.  But it is just-about  understandable that
some authors may want to keep some of their routines to themselves.
In which case perhaps a redacted source code listing ....?

As a minimum,  we ought to insist .HEX files are there for all.

Andy
www.g4jnt.com


On 19 March 2012 21:40, M0FMT <m0fmt@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> But its totally useless with out the HEX code for the processor. This is
>....

> in an article it so much hot air, who ever builds these things? A RadCom
> syndrome.
> 73 es GL Pete M0FMT IO91UX