Enhancement Request: Jump to Next or Previous Peak on Bandscope

[baitisj]

When in bandscope, use the * key to jump to the next peak that is at least two S units above the average noise floor. Likewise, use # key to jump to the previous peak.

[nicsure]

The scope is in early development and further controls like this are not added yet.

[baitisj]

Am aware. That's why I thought it might be useful to suggest something, as a possible future goal.

[nicsure]

The controls I was planning on were (including your suggestion)

Up/Down: move centre frequency by set step Blue: Move to strongest signal */#: Move to next significant signal forward/backward Red (short press): Exit scope Red (long press): Exit scope and change VFO to current centre frequency PTT-A: Monitor current centre frequency PTT-B: Monitor next significant signal Flashlight: Monitor previous significant signal Number Keys: Enter new centre frequency

[baitisj]

Love the control plans! I'd just like to put in a thought here -- a pitch, perhaps, for a really "different" idea: Consider a design that revolves around the idea that you use a band scope to navigate frequencies, rather than frequency input? Every radio supports frequency input etc. What would be really cool is a radio that, by default, takes advantage of band scope as a major point of operation. For instance,

• in memory mode, it could graph the signal strength graph associated with a subset of the currently programmed memory channels.
• in VFO mode, by default, a signal strength graph would be shown along the edge of the screen
• In each case, the the currently selected frequency could correspond to a blinking bar.

Once the arrows are used to scroll, say, 3/4 of the way through current bar graph, it could be refreshed and current frequency re-centered. This too could be forced by pressing a "force update" (perhaps long-press blue?) button.

I know we're far out in NicFW but I think it would be cool to think about how to make a radio that has such a nice display truly shine in terms of functionality to take advantage of this display.