aethersdr / aethersdr/AetherSDR
Request for Antenna Genius TX/RX Split Support in Your SDR Software
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I hope this finds you well. I'm a user of your SDR software on the Mac & Linux . I run both a Flex 8600 and a Flex 6600, each with a Power Genius amplifier and tuners. All seven of my antennas feed through the Antenna Genius before reaching the radios, so I can't use the radio's direct 1/2 ports for antenna selection. In the official Flex software on Windows, the Antenna Genius settings let me assign different antennas for transmit and receive per band. I can receive on an antenna that hears much better but has too high an SWR to transmit safely, then switch to another for transmit. The Antenna Genius was built specifically for this rapid TX/RX switching between optimized antennas, which is its main feature. Your AGXL settings only show a single Bands list per antenna with no separate TX and RX columns, so I lose that capability entirely. Selecting 1 or 2 on the radio just switches to a dead channel since everything routes through the Antenna Genius. Is there any chance you could add this split TX/RX per-antenna support? Thanks so much for all your work on the software. 73, N8BM
Marvin Wade.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the AGXL settings and the Antenna Genius integration in the AetherSDR codebase. Compare the current single Bands list with the separate transmit and receive antenna assignments described in the issue. Done means AGXL can represent and apply distinct TX/RX antenna choices per band for the supported radios.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
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- cpp
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- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
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- Over a week
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100