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FLEX-6000 Signature Series – Maestro User Guide

Tapping the Panadapter reveals plus and minus magnifying glass buttons located in the upper left

corner of the Panadapter. Tap these buttons to zoom the Panadapter in or out. Zooming out (-)

will double the bandwidth presented in the Panadapter while zooming in (+) will halve the

bandwidth. The frequency at the center of the Panadapter will remain the same after each change

in bandwidth, except in the case where the Active Slice Receiver is not in the center of the

panadapter. In this case, the panadapter will be re-centered on the slice before the zoom

operation.

For more precise control of the zoom, touch and drag anywhere on the frequency labels located at

the bottom of the Panadapter.

Dragging the frequency labels to the right zooms in, dragging to the left zooms out. With this

method, the frequency at the point where your finger was located will remain stationary in the

Panadapter.

Next to the plus and minus buttons located in the upper right corner of the Panadapter display, you

will see the B control. Tapping this control changes the zoom level so that the entire band that

contains the Active Slice Receiver is displayed on the Panadapter. Tapping the control again returns

the Panadapter zoom to its previous level.

Next to the B control, the S control performs a “zoom to segment”. When activated, the

Panadapter zoom is adjusted so that the segment (CW/Phone) of the band that contains the Active

Slice Receiver is displayed on the Panadapter. This control is available as part of the set of controls

that can be mapped to function buttons. See section 33.4, Function F1-F6 Tab for more details.

When zooming out of a Panadapter there are certain points where the amount of data needed to

create the display must be doubled. As this occurs more noise will be included in the FFT bins

comprising the display which will cause a noticeable increase in the noise floor. The reverse occurs

when zooming in on a Panadapter. Each time one of these thresholds is crossed, either zooming in

or out, the noise floor will increase or decrease by about 3 dB. If the displayed spectrum after the

zoom operation exceeds the width of band pre-selectors in the FLEX-6500 or FLEX-6700 the radio

will switch to wideband mode, which causes the radio to open the Bandpass Filters to their

maximum bandwidth. When this occurs, any Panadapters using that antenna will display

in the top right corner to indicate that they are in wideband mode.

Note: The FLEX-6300 is always in WIDE mode and will not show this indicator.

Just to the left of the WIDE indicator is an indicator that shows if the preamplifier is active and if so,

at what level. A complete description of the preamplifier control can be found starting in section

25.9, Using the Receiver RF Gain/Preamplifiers.

If the Panadapter is on a Transverter (XVTR) band, an indicator appears to the left of the

preamplifier indicator. A complete description of how to set up the Maestro for transverter

operation can be found in section 27, How to Configure Transverters.

FlexRadio Signature FLEX-6000 Series User Manual

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