Thanks to David's guidance, Freebeacon is now working fine in 700D mode on my RPi4 and Icom IC7100. The beacon is only operating part time but I'm hoping to get our club to look at a more permanent solution here in southeast Queensland.
I've done a few small mods to the Freebeacon program to make CAT control work though Hamlib and put the source code on a temporary website http://freedv.vk4ya.space (all running on the same Pi4 here at home). Its still work-in-progress, but who knows, it might be useful to take and do properly someday. There is bit of a bug that I've not fathomed out yet in the Hamlib Rig model selection. For example, my Icom IC-7100 needs the rig code 3070, but according to the Hamlib site https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib/wiki/Supported-Radios the code number should be 370. The command line option is '-u 3070' for the '7100. On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 09:29, Bob Wisdom <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Al, > Thank you for the link to your modified Freebeacon code as a repeater. I'm > certainly hoping we can get something going like that for our radio club on > HF, or maybe also on VHF - I'd love to try and show everyone FreeDV when > analogue was poor. I'm a bit behind with all the latest developments on > Codec2 having set up Freebeacon and played with FreeDV a few years ago, but > I reckon its a good time to remind everyone and myself of the benefits. > > David is also interested in bringing Freebeacon up to date and is already > looking at an update (acknowledgements to John VK3IC who started the > project). In the meantime I've had to divert investigations slightly as my > Kenwood TS590SG seemed to keep intermittently dropping the USB connection > to the RPi4 running Freebeacon and causing a program hang (issue 1 as > originally reported), so I've switched to an Icom IC-7100 for the USB link. > However, the Icom really needed CAT PTT control (the Kenwood used VOX). So > I've introduced a 'quick-n-dirty' hamlib CAT PTT into my local Freebeacon > code. > > Still looking into the Freebeacon 700D apparent 'no-sync' issue at the > moment, 1600 mode is fine. > > Unfortunately my standard of coding is not up to scratch, so when I later > merge a newer Freebeacon into my Hamlib enabled Freebeacon I suspect my > effort will be too poor to go back mainstream, (but I'll publish it on my > github). I've never used the hamlib API before. > Thanks for your support, much appreciated. > bob VK4YA >
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