I really like wfview, thank you for your effort. I would like to have a few suggestions:
The frequency is difficult to read - for example 14.245680. Please add a decimal point. 14.245.680 is much better. The best is 14.245.68, as it is on Icom radios.
The speed of the waterfall is a little bit high. Would it be possible to add waterfall speed setting?
Double-click tuning on the waterfall - one-click is better and more precise.
The frequencies above the waterfall should have the same number of decimal places. Now: 3.515 - 3.52 - 3.525 - 3.53. Better is: 3.515 - 3.520 - 3.525 - 3.530.
I do like using the single click as a frequency marker when hunting noise and interference without actual wanting to select the frequency to hear the noise.
Maybe keep the short click and add long one click to change to new frequency selected.
Thatās a good point too. We can also do things like control-click and shift-click. Probably also āright-clickā.
When we do Release 2, we will have some interesting things to consider with the waterfall and spectrum plot, including what we are calling āoverlaysā, which might be:
Passband indication
Memory locations
temporary āI clicked hereā markers
DX Spots
Satellite transponder / telemetry locations
Maybe other things. Itās a chance to re-work all the code and features of the waterfall. And so, we would definitely look at ways to mark a spot, so to speak.
Oops, I hadnāt even noticed the single click to note a frequency! I had been going to suggest that you could add a frequency marker that follows the mouse pointer but maybe I donāt need it now
Definitely agree on the waterfall frequencies needing to be consistent - Iāve got 1, 2 and 3 decimal places at the moment which does make it harder to read
I did see this idea where they had like a bandplan across the bottom. Settable to IARU regions. Maybe as overlay if didnāt kill waterfall performance
Ad 2: Adjusting speed of WF on the radio does not affect wfiew.
Ad 3: Double click with a mouse is quite precise, but touch display is another story. I use also RS-BA1 and there is one-click. Nice and easy. I didnāt realize the frequency readout in the left bottom corner after one-click. Maybe it could be there without clicking. When the mouse is in the spectrum window, there is an actual frequency position in bottom left. And one-click can be QSY.
You asked what OS and radio I use - Win10 and IC-705
The waterfall speed is governed by the radio, wfview simply displays what the radio is sending, so changing the waterfall speed on the radio ādoesā affect wfview! The speed is controlled by the MENU/2 speed button on the display (FAST/MID/SLOW).
I just tried this on my IC705 with wfview connected over WiFi and changing the waterfall speed on the radio definitely changed the speed of the wfview waterfall. I have also verified this on my IC9700 and IC7610.
you are right. There are two settings of WF speed. I tried EXPD/SET - Waterfall Speed and there is no change. You tried MENU/2 - SPEED and it is OK. Iām still learning
You can always run a screenshot program from your OS. And you can uncheck āEnable WFā to pause the dispaly. But no, I have not provided a button to save the waterfall as an image. An interesting idea. Maybe we could assign a keystroke for it in our next release.
N1MM program has an excellent Spectrum display function. However, it only works with a USB connection to the IC-705. Neither the Icom Remote utility nor wfview provide waterfall data for other programs. N1MM has the ability to read this data via UDP broadcast. Is the development team considering sharing WF data for N1MM?
To add this functionality to wfview is considerably easier as VSELink has to perform FFT on the incoming data, whereas all we need to do for wfview is package the received spectrum data into an XML file and forward it to the necessary port.
