.... which you also don't need if you have a clean audio chain with reasonably flat response and you don't drive it into clipping!
73 -Jim NU0C On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 23:10:32 -0400, Bill Pence wrote: >Well, other than the 'fake it' frequency control options to keep the tx >audio in the middle of the passband... > >On Mon, Oct 8, 2018, 11:09 PM Jim Shorney <jshor...@inebraska.com> wrote: > >> >> It is a myth that you need CAT for digital modes. In fact you don't need >> it at >> all. >> >> 73 >> >> -Jim >> NU0C >> >> >> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 02:29:30 +0000, Shane Stroud wrote: >> >> > CAT... because that's kinda the point with most digital modes these >> days. And it's an FT-847, not 840. >> > >> >________________________________ >> >From: Alan VK2ZIW <bea...@unixservice.com.au> >> >Sent: Monday, October 8, 2018 6:41 PM >> >To: WSJT software development >> >Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Yaesu FT-847 >> > >> >Hi all, >> > >> >Why do you need CAT control at all? >> > >> >What's really needed is a rig with Stability. >> > >> >Any rig with a digital VFO will do. >> > >> >My 2c. >> > >> >Yes, I have an FT-840 and it's OK. >> > >> >Alan VK2ZIW >> > >> > >> >On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 10:54:42 -0400, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote >> >> FT-840UNI would be OK. âEarlyâ or âNoGetâ would require the user >> >> to >> know more about whatâs going on with these devices. >> > >> >> >> >> >> >Karl Heinz - K5KHK >> >> >> > >> > >> >> >> > >> >> On Oct 8, 2018, at 10:52 AM, Black Michael <mdblac...@yahoo.com<mailto: >> mdblac...@yahoo.com>> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> What can we call these earlier rigs to make the apparent in the riglist? >> >> >> > >> >> FT-840EARLY ??? >> >> Or >> >> FT-840UNI (unidirectional) >> >> FT-840NOGET >> > >> >> >> > >> >> Or any better idea? >> >> >> > >> >> de Mike W9MDB >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> On Monday, October 8, 2018, 9:47:05 AM CDT, Karl Heinz Kremer < >> k...@khk.net<mailto:k...@khk.net>> wrote: >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> This also seems to be the case with my early Yaesu FT-840 - it can >> receive CAT commands, but does not report anything back. >> > >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> Karl Heinz - K5KHK >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 10:44 AM Black Michael via wsjt-devel < >> wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>> >> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> What version of WSJT-X are you using right now? >> >> >> > >> >> Looks like we need a new rig entry for the earlier serial #'s and I can >> build you one for testing. >> >> >> > >> >> de Mike W9MDB >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> On Monday, October 8, 2018, 9:34:22 AM CDT, Shane Stroud < >> shanestroud1...@hotmail.com<mailto:shanestroud1...@hotmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> I have discovered that the early serial numbered models of the Yaesu >> FT-847 had unidirectional CAT. Basically, the software can send >> frequencies and modes to the rig, but the rig cannot respond. This applies >> to serial numbers through about 8GXXXX. Mine is an 8EXXXX series. >> >> >> > >> >> In any version of WSJT, under any operating system, the rig will set >> frequency and mode, then error out because it cannot respond to polling. >> >> >> > >> >> I'm not sure if this needs fixed in WSJT or in hamlib, but other hamlib >> programs seem to work with the rig without issue. >> _______________________________________________ >> >wsjt-devel mailing list >> >wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> >> >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >> >_______________________________________________ >> >wsjt-devel mailing list >> >wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> >> >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >Alan >> > >> >Evil flourishes when good men do nothing. >> >Consider the Christmas child. >> >> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >Alan Beard Unix Support Technician from 1984 to today >> >70 Wedmore Rd. 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