[chirp_devel] Receive only channels

[Dan Smith]

> It always was the wrong word anyway. Except for the very few handsets
> that really can transmit and receive simultaneously, mostly it is not
> duplex, it is simply "split".
> 
> Google dictionary.
> du·plex
> "(of a communications system, computer circuit, etc.) allowing the
> transmission of two signals simultaneously in opposite directions"
> 
> The key word is simultaneously.  

Of course, but the decision to all it "duplex" was to mirror what most
radios (and their manuals) call the function.

> Personally I would re-structure the GUI to have a TX and RX frequency
> and drop the entire duplex section, make an TX frequency of 0 be "no
> transmit". That would be a large change though and might just be my own
> personal preference :-)

That preference would confuse like 90% of the users who are used to
programming a receive frequency and offset.

> Can't you simply change the text in the GUI and leave the the token (or
> whatever moniker the language you write in calls it) as "off"  

Of course, but then we'd have None, Off, *and* NO_TX to explain to people :)

--Dan

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