The New "Portsdown 2018" Software - Revision history

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During early February 2018, the new "Portsdown 2018" software was launched. This software retains the same transmitting functionality as previous software versions, but is intended to make control of the transmitter from the touchscreen a lot easier.

Main Menu

[[File:menu1.jpg|480px]]

Most of the main menu buttons bring up a sub-menu to allow selection of one of a number of options. The exceptions are the transmit receive and preset buttons.

The sub-menus have a maximum of 10 buttons as shown here

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-Most of the main menu buttons bring up a sub-menu to allow selection of one of a number of options.  The exceptions are the transmit receive and preset buttons.  The 4 preset buttons each store Modulation, Encoding, Output device, Picture Format, Picture Source, Frequency, Symbol Rate FEC, Band and Audio preference.  To store the current configuration, press "Store Preset" which will turn red.  If you then select any of the presets, the configuration will be stored by that button.  If you touach any other part of the display, the "Store Preset" command will be cancelled.  The Band and Attenuator functionality supports 5 direct transmission bands and 4 transverts.  Details here: [[Portsdown 2018 Band Switching]].
+Most of the main menu buttons bring up a sub-menu to allow selection of one of a number of options.  The exceptions are the transmit receive and preset buttons.  The 4 preset buttons each store Modulation, Encoding, Output device, Picture Format, Picture Source, Frequency, Symbol Rate FEC, Band and Audio preference.  To store the current configuration, press "Store Preset" which will turn red.  If you then select any of the presets, the configuration will be stored by that button.  If you touach any other part of the display, the "Store Preset" command will be cancelled.  The Band and Attenuator functionality supports 5 direct transmission bands and 4 transverters.  Details here: [[Portsdown 2018 Band Switching]].
 The sub-menus have a maximum of 10 buttons as shown here:
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 [[File:menu3.jpg|480px]]
-Menu 3 is intended as the configuration menu.  As time goes on, more and more functionality will be migrated from the Console Menu to the touchscreen, making use of the keyboard that has been included.  The keyboard is called up whenever text or numeric entry is required.  Although it does have lower and upper case, it only has a limited set of special characters.  Note that it is essential to use the Touchscreen Calibration facility before attempting to use the keyboard, as individual screen have significant variations.
+Menu 3 is intended as the configuration menu.  As time goes on, more and more functionality will be migrated from the Console Menu to the touchscreen, making use of the keyboard that has been included.  The keyboard is called up whenever text or numeric entry is required.  Although it does have lower and upper case, it only has a limited set of special characters.  Note that it is essential to use the Touchscreen Calibration facility before attempting to use the keyboard, as individual screens have significant variations.
 [[File:menu41.jpg|480px]]

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 [[File:menu1.jpg|480px]]
-Most of the main menu buttons bring up a sub-menu to allow selection of one of a number of options.  The exceptions are the transmit receive and preset buttons.  The 4 preset buttons each store Modulation, Encoding, Output device, Picture Format, Picture Source, Frequency, Symbol Rate FEC, Band and Audio preference.  To store the current configuration, press "Store Preset" which will turn red.  If you then select any of the presets, the configuration will be stored by that button.  If you touach any other part of the display, the "Store Preset" command will be cancelled.
+Most of the main menu buttons bring up a sub-menu to allow selection of one of a number of options.  The exceptions are the transmit receive and preset buttons.  The 4 preset buttons each store Modulation, Encoding, Output device, Picture Format, Picture Source, Frequency, Symbol Rate FEC, Band and Audio preference.  To store the current configuration, press "Store Preset" which will turn red.  If you then select any of the presets, the configuration will be stored by that button.  If you touach any other part of the display, the "Store Preset" command will be cancelled.  The Band and Attenuator functionality supports 5 direct transmission bands and 4 transverts.  Details here: [[Portsdown 2018 Band Switching]].
-The sub-menus have a maximum of 10 buttons as shown here
+The sub-menus have a maximum of 10 buttons as shown here:
 [[File:menu13.jpg|480px]]

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		+	Some buttons on the main menu and on the sub-menus are greyed out if they do not make sense for the other options selected. For example, the audio button is greyed out if H264 encoding is selected, as audio with H264 is proving impossible to implement at present.
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		+	Menu 2