Hi John,
I am still very much enjoying linsmith. I thought you might be
interested in my latest antenna project where I used linsmith to help me
get the matching components sorted out. I did up a quick webpage with
the antenna build details and a plug for linsmith!
I am still very much enjoying linsmith. I thought you might be
interested in my latest antenna project where I used linsmith to help
me get the matching components sorted out. I did up a quick webpage
with the antenna build details and a plug for linsmith!
Hi Lawrence...
Great to hear from you again! And of your continuing use of linSmith.
There are are some clouds on the horizon though (like the ones that
are really forming outside there's a large storm coming). Debian will
discontinue its support (rightly, I think) because of the old gnome
libraries which are still in use in the latest version. I suspect
other distros will follow.
So, I've basically re-written large parts of linSmith to not use those
libraries, use a newer version of the graphics canvas, and streamlined
some other issues. And ported to Gtk-3, which was long overdue. It's
working, but I'm trying to debug a somewhat exotic value problem which
appeared in the process. Strangely, I can't seem to debug near the
point of the segfault. Either it doesn't happen anymore, or it happens
at a different place.
I doubt a simple merge will be possible with all the changes.
Anyways, I just wanted to give you a heads-up that I haven't given up
on the project.
Cheers,
John
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Hi John,
I am still very much enjoying linsmith. I thought you might be
interested in my latest antenna project where I used linsmith to help me
get the matching components sorted out. I did up a quick webpage with
the antenna build details and a plug for linsmith!
http://ve7it.cowlug.org/6m-five-eigths.html
The slider controls for adjusting components in the matching system is
just magical to watch on the animated smith chart. The math doesn't lie!
3 days of fumbling with guesses for the matching network were quickly
solved using linsmith.
cheers
Lawrence Glaister VE7IT
Nanoose Bay, BC, Canada
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 06:49:39 -0000
"Lawrence P. Glaister" gspy@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Hi Lawrence...
Great to hear from you again! And of your continuing use of linSmith.
There are are some clouds on the horizon though (like the ones that
are really forming outside there's a large storm coming). Debian will
discontinue its support (rightly, I think) because of the old gnome
libraries which are still in use in the latest version. I suspect
other distros will follow.
So, I've basically re-written large parts of linSmith to not use those
libraries, use a newer version of the graphics canvas, and streamlined
some other issues. And ported to Gtk-3, which was long overdue. It's
working, but I'm trying to debug a somewhat exotic value problem which
appeared in the process. Strangely, I can't seem to debug near the
point of the segfault. Either it doesn't happen anymore, or it happens
at a different place.
I doubt a simple merge will be possible with all the changes.
Anyways, I just wanted to give you a heads-up that I haven't given up
on the project.
Cheers,
John