--- In [email protected], "mikecol2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I with you on the Kenwood CAT commands. I just wish there would be a > standard for "set center freq" as compared to the normal "set freq" > command. Agreed. The 'AI' Kenwood CAT support that PowerSDR has recently introduced will not work well for SDR- it outputs the 'tune' frequency, not the IF offset frequency that you really want it to set the SDR receiver to. To take into account the IF offset will require additional surgery in the PowerSDR code. If I might suggest, I added 995x support to PowerSDR which takes all of this into account. Fully tuneable 160M-6M SDR that is interfaced to the PC via USB. Given that, I believe the next gen XTALL+ should utilize a USB based uC, utilize both binary and CAT command interface, and always appear as a virtual serial port to the PC. That offers the most versatility of all. I don't understand why anyone would consider using a I2C converter- our current UCs already do that. Making the PC interface USB is simply a matter of changing to a USB capable UC- it could either be AVR or PIC, for that matter. We already have a lot of code to control many DDS boards, and a upcoming Si570/AS9912 combination. All the pieces are there. -Reid- W0CNN
