I totally agree. But the DDUtil solution isn't what some want and building your own widget would be the only other alternative.
-Tim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Jannuzzo Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 9:26 AM To: James Nelson; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] Flexedge Digest, Vol 22, Issue 22 And, if you build or program something yourself, you will have to maintain it and support it yourself. This is not a trivial task. You also will get only the features that you programmed or built, and nothing more. DDUtil is constantly expanding, and has the support of many Flex users and Steve Nance. Steve's support is invaluable. So, one can either try to reinvent a wheel and build a hardware/ Yaesu BCD converter, or you can ride the wave of CAT commands. -----Original Message----- From: James Nelson Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 1:13 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] Flexedge Digest, Vol 22, Issue 22 Hi guys, I use and recommend DDutil that I personally use for both my 5K & 1500, it is a masterpiece of cat data software from Steve K5FR that gives TOTAL control and diagnostic information. Once you run it I am sure you would not have CAT any other way. With external power meter, linear & palstar tuner and all my digi software this CAT system makes Flex a joy with both radios on the one PC that it can talk to without a change of settings. 73' James VK2JN ------------------------------ Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------ On 25/04/2011, at 2:52 PM, Chris Muir <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Brian, > > You wrote: > > On 25/04/2011 5:00 a.m., [email protected] wrote: >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:16:59 -0700 >> From: Brian Lloyd<[email protected]> >> To: Neal Campbell<[email protected]> Cc:[email protected] >> Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] FW: flexwire out >> Message-ID:<[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Neal >> Campbell<[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> > Hi Laurie >>> > >>> > Another option might be the microham Stationmaster. You could >>> > feed the CAT output from PSDR to a physical serial port and it >>> > can do a ton of automatic switching based on the cat info (and >>> > since its a widely used product with all types of rigs you can >>> > bet its seen a lot of different types of configurations. >>> > >>> > Its not cheap but its very professionally done. >>> > >> Yes. That appears as if it might be a better solution than the KCR2. >> OTOH, >> the KCR2 is reprogrammable (who is going to do that) and it has both >> high-side and ground-side relay drivers and not just parallel (BCD) >> output. >> But neither it nor the StationMaster have analog band-data >> output.<sigh> >> >> Still, this is a very good start. >> >> -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL > > I am also inclined to prefer picking up the band information direct > from the radio hardware. In my case a 1500. > With a schematic - or maybe even without - it should be possible to > identify the relays associated with the various PA LPF's. And "steal" > the various relay coil signals to drive an new set of external relays > or circuitry? Maybe after the warranty expires! In my case I want to > feed the information to my Tokyo HA-100Bdx linear which supports the > Yaesu analogue voltage scheme. Obviously it would need to be done > carefully, maybe with opto isolation. > > 73, Chris Muir ZL1BOE > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flexedge mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz > This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is > used for posting topics related to SDR software development and > experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software. _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software. _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software. _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
