Drawing an S-meter

s-meter2

Now some graphics. This is supposed to be an S-meter. The length of the yellow bar shows the signal strength. The refresh rate is 10 frames per second, which means I am inquiring IC-7410 for the S-meter value every 100 mS.

I need to do some calibrations. The only available information from the instruction manual is that 0000=S0, 0120=S9, and 0240=S9+60dB.

CPU2

The CPU load drops significantly when the program is terminated.

With grig there is almost no change in the CPU load, so there is a room for improvement.

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