Mike and Bill,
Likely, a solution would need to be more user-specific. ATU is most relevant, but only one example. In my case I need ATU on/off as well as mode and maybe bandwidth, but others may need to switch antenna port, or, or, or. Examples: When I was before on 80m SSTV, VFO stays at Data_LSB; when I was on SSB, VFO stays either at USB or LSB mode; when I worked CW before, VFO stays at CW and narrow bandwidth. When I now select the any band via WSJT-X, it changes only frequency at my rig, but NOT mode, ATU, bandwidth et cetera. That is the reason why I am doing it the other way round and change all that at my rig. It is too much at risk. I nearly damaged my HF power amplifier a couple of times when after such a band change ATU was accidentally switched to the wrong state. When I am working FT8 all the day, I switch all band-VFOs of my FT-991 to Data_USB, and the ATU on/of for those bands needed. Then these settings are remembered by my FT-991 when changing band via WSJT-X. Only in this case it works. To bring it to work, one would need to have the possibility to save user-specific CAT commands per band (or even per JT mode and band), like it is in MMSSTV. Easiest would be to have in WSJT-X a table where one could specify such (optional) commands, which would be sent to the CAT in addition to the frequency change CAT command. Alternative could be to specify/save that into any .ini file. But from my point of view it would get too comprehensive if there would be within WSJT-X checkboxes for all these possible options (which would likely only be interesting for a few OM). I really don’t know if it’s worth to spend any more time on this. Likely only something which would be “nice to have”. But thanks for making some thoughts on this for me… 73 de DG2YCB, Uwe ____________________________________ German Amateur Radio Station DG2YCB Dr. Uwe Risse eMail: dg2...@gmx.de Info: www.qrz.com/db/DG2YCB Von: Black Michael via wsjt-devel [mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net] Gesendet: Sonntag, 13. Januar 2019 17:47 An: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Black Michael Betreff: Re: [wsjt-devel] User-specific CAT commands? Cuz' I was thinking off the top-of-my-head rather than looking at the code... I'll add the TUNER func and start gronking the YAESU manuals. Too bad there isn't a matrix somewhere is there? Mike On Sunday, January 13, 2019, 10:41:23 AM CST, Bill Somerville <g4...@classdesign.com> wrote: Hi Mike, sure, you can add the TUNER function for the FT-991, it should really be there already. Easy to add. It needs to be added to yaesu/newcat.c in newcat_{get,set}_func() as several Yaesu rigs that use them have the same ATU CAT commands. Once that's done a trawl through the Yaesu CAT manuals to find the rigs that have AC000 and AC001 is necessary to add the function to them. The tune facility is already there using the VFO option RIG_OP_TUNE, there is no "tune off" the AC002 is a start command, i.e. equivalent to a momentary action switch. Why do you think anything else is needed for that? 73 Bill G4WJS. On 13/01/2019 16:07, Black Michael via wsjt-devel wrote: I can add that capability. But I think we need both ATU On/Off and Tune On/Off So maybe TUNE 0/1 ATU 0/1 or TUNE 0/1 TUNER 0/1 One being a verb and one being a noun. So TUNE actually starts tuning and TUNER turns the automatic on/off Opinions? de Mike W9MDB On Sunday, January 13, 2019, 7:24:21 AM CST, Bill Somerville <mailto:g4...@classdesign.com> <g4...@classdesign.com> wrote: On 13/01/2019 13:08, DG2YCB, Uwe wrote: Hi Bill, I do not use the hamlib rigctl. Perhaps I should try it that way. But switching band via command line seems to be not really more elegant than just switching band directly at the FT-991 . Anyway, I fully agree, that this topic has only low priority in comparison with others. In my case having such an option would simply be quite useful. Just FYI see below FT-991’s CAT commands for ATU control: “AC000” means ATU off, “AC001” means ATU on, and “AC002” means start tuning (which is not relevant here). Adding “AC000;” or “AC001;” to the CAT commands for band or frequency change works quite well with my FT-991 for the purpose of switching the ATU on or off. Hi Uwe, you have misunderstood my suggestion. Hamlib rigctld is a rig control server, it allows multiple applications to access the same rig. What I was suggesting is that you can use rigctld to connect to your rig and then have WSJT-X connect to rigctld. WSJT-X will do rig control as before, the difference is that another application can now be used to send other rig control instructions to the rig as well. That other application could be the Hamlib rigctl command line tool that could tell your rig to enable or disable its ATU. The only part of this that is missing is that currently Hamlib only knows how to send the AC002 command to an FT-991 but it can be easily enhanced to also send ATU on/off commands (AC001/AC002). The command would look like: rigctrl -m2 U TUNER 1 to turn on the ATU and: rigctl -m2 U TUNER 0 to turn off the ATU. 73 Bill G4WJS. _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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