woodpecker
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If they've been adding more pointless "features" rather than just fixing the broken mess, there is a high probability they've introduced a load of new errors.
By announcing the September firmware release AOR have put themselves into a corner, they are under pressure to release something - or loose even more credibility - whether the "something" will be of any use and not just cosmetic changes, we will have to wait and see..
Mike
To this date there still isn’t any remote control commands list, that everyone was adviced to wait for before using the remote control. But they find time to do a beta hamfair release, it makes no sense. Looks a bunch of development hobbyists without any structural approach.
Hello,It was their choice to waste time on a IQ recording feature, it shouldn’t even be on the roadmap yet. First you fix what is broken, before you break other things. But having said that, they never considered the drift being a bug or whatsoever, they considered it a feature improvement and that kinda says all.
Since serial commands are unpublished, AOR may consider any serial command problems as low priority.
73 Eric
By announcing the September firmware release AOR have put themselves into a corner, they are under pressure to release something - or loose even more credibility - whether the "something" will be of any use and not just cosmetic changes, we will have to wait and see..
Mike
It was their choice to waste time on a IQ recording feature, it shouldn’t even be on the roadmap yet. First you fix what is broken, before you break other things. But having said that, they never considered the drift being a bug or whatsoever, they considered it a feature improvement and that kinda says all.
Correct - the most fundamental things have to be working 100%, why on earth the current way forward is the direction they have taken no one has answered for me, and I have asked several times, it's always skirted around. Sticking to the basics from a Dev/QA perspective it's also the easiest approach without introducing some other issues with a new feature.
I'm going to throw it out there, I could be totally wrong, I suspect they are on the back foot because of the Icom ICR30.
Make no mistake they are smart engineers with a strong track record of quality (for the most part) - something has gone horribly wrong in the whole release/approach to correct the issues in a timely manner. I'll take it further, several should never have been there in the first place.
So no updat today then looks like OCTOBER now
As predicted.
Months on and they haven't fixed the basic bugs and got remote commands working, maybe they've given up and abandoned it.
built
I think you'll love it. It's also built like a tank, very solidly constructed. The GPS also activates in just a few secs, even indoors, no minutes long waits.
Good
Hello
Well, another week another update - literally verbatim from the email on the firmware update status when asked - I know it's not definitive as usual but passing it on regardless;
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" You may probably get the updates later in this week or even next week."
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Maybe its safe to say, i believe it when i see it.
Have the unit now - amazing, and it just works as it should. Firmware update was so fast I literally blinked and the update was completed.
No hesitation in recommending the Icom ICR30 to anyone. I will add any comments in Icom threads as the weeks progress.