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Open implementation of the Quansheng UV-K5/K6/5R firmware
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[FEATURE] VFO priority, so one will be muted if there's signal in another frequency #51

Open sergeibit opened 2 months ago

sergeibit commented 2 months ago

I'm trying to listen to multiple frequencies by scanning/hopping between them by using the dual VFO.

One of them there's a continuous stream (Airport ATIS), while others have signal only on demand (e.g, by someone pressing PTT).

I would like to suggest some kind of "channel priority" or "VFO priority", so "lower priority" channels are muted automatically if there's signal in a "higher priority" channel.

Scenario example: VFO 1 is scanning/hopping a list of frequencies. VFO 2 is demodulating the ATIS channel. Then, VFO 1 detects an upcoming signal in the Tower channel The radio then switch to VFO 1 (i.e, ATIS channel will play) When the VFO 1 signal is gone, it comes back to VFO 2 at the fixed frequency.

Please, understand: the problem is not dual VFO scanning.

The problem I'm trying to solve is stop demodulating a continuous signal in one VFO if a signal is detected in another frequency, and demodulate that frequency instead, even if there's still signal in the another frequency.

It could be useful in a scenario like the one I have, but also for emergency or other important frequency monitoring.

If there's not a way to do it currently, do you think it's something possible to be implemented by software? I mean, the hardware allow something like that?

Thank you very much.