[chirp_devel] VX2r progress

[Dan Smith]

> Hmm.  The main code needs a lot more comments.

Hmm. I disagree :)

> What is 'required_step' and 'fix_rounded_step' in chirp_common?

If you look at the two, required_step() is clearly returning the step
frequency required to hit the supplied frequency. Some radios do not
store the entire frequency because the sub-kHz amount can be implied.
The fix_rounded_step() attempts to determine that implied value and
return the actual frequency.

> In the VX2r we are allowed a step size of 9, which is not accounted
> for in these routines.  I have declared it in STEPS in vx2r.py, but
> this is not used by chirp_common.py or passed as a parameter.  So
> chirp barfs on 1.458 MHz, which is an AM station in one of my
> memories.

Yep, as it will for any of the radios. It's just never been something I
cared about, which is bad and lazy. Feel free to fix :)

> Whilst I'm at it, the memory name is limited to 6 characters, which
> is recorded in  rf.valid_name_length = 6, but then hard-coded in
> various other places.

Where is that? I use all 16 characters on my VX8 without any trouble.

-- 
Dan Smith
www.danplanet.com
KK7DS

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