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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">as i said to you before sam I have
gotten this to work with the acid code.<br>
it will not work for full cat control using a usb serial adapter i
had tried that myself.<br>
you need a real pc with a real serial port. I am using a pc with a
pentium 4 processor with a <br>
real serial port usb to serial just does not work at all.<br>
<br>
other wise it does work very well and you have to program the icon
706 a certain for it to work also.<br>
<br>
i have been successful with this. unless the code can be modified
to use the gpio on a raspi.<br>
<br>
usb to serial just does not work at all not with out modifying the
code.<br>
<br>
cat control is done via the icom ci-v protocol from with in
app_rpt.c<br>
<br>
<br>
ken n1dot<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 6/17/2015 2:11 PM, Sam Nabkey wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Sam Scofield is running the xcat. I was just trying
to run an icom 706 or a Kenwood tm700d. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Whenever you call a node a remote base, weirdness
happens to the usb adapter. It's just not workable in the bbb
or even later revs of acid.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This interests me... I will have to run some
experiments soon.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Which radios are you running and do you have any good
scripts you could pass on and maybe how you operate it as a
user? I'd appreciate any input.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sam NABJEY K8SN..</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 17, 2015 8:40 AM, "David McGough"
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kb4fxc@inttek.net">kb4fxc@inttek.net</a>>
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Sam,<br>
<br>
I haven't personally used the Syntor X-cat adapter. I looked
at their<br>
yahoo group and the documentation in the "files" section.
Otherwise, I've<br>
used rigctl to manage many different radios, with great
success. The first<br>
place to start is from the BBB shell prompt, with remote-base
support<br>
disabled in app_rpt. Once you get familiar with the various
rigctl<br>
commands, macros for access via AllStar are pretty easy--just
directly<br>
call the rigctl command from AllStar.<br>
<br>
I'm guessing you're using the CI-V interface method for the
Xcat? Are you<br>
using full VFO capability, or just changing the Syntor's modes
(AKA:<br>
channels)?<br>
<br>
If simply changing modes, I'm guessing some command something
like this<br>
will work:<br>
<br>
/usr/local/bin/rigctl -r /dev/ttyUSB0 -m 311 -s 19200 -c0x20 h
27<br>
<br>
-r /dev/ttyUSB0 #### serial interface to use...<br>
-s 19200 #### serial data rate (Xcat uses 19200, based on
the manual)<br>
-c0x20 #### CI-V address (Xcat is fixed at 0x20, from the
manual)<br>
h 27 #### "h 27" changes to memory channel channel 27<br>
<br>
<br>
"rigctl -l" will get a list of supported radio back-ends. I'd
recommend<br>
trying various Icom back-ends, hopefully finding something
that works<br>
100%.<br>
<br>
rigctl -l #### Get list of available back-ends<br>
<br>
"rigctl -m 311 -u" will get a list of supported features for a
given<br>
back-end, try this. Note that the "-m 311" uses the ic-706mk2g
back-end.<br>
<br>
rigctl -m 311 -u #### Get supported features for back-end 311<br>
<br>
<br>
I'll try to help further, once I understand more about your
setup.<br>
<br>
<br>
73, David KB4FXC<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Sam Nabkey wrote:<br>
<br>
> That's cool. Care to share some setup examples? I'd
love to see them.<br>
><br>
> K8SN<br>
> On Jun 17, 2015 6:51 AM, "David McGough" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kb4fxc@inttek.net">kb4fxc@inttek.net</a>>
wrote:<br>
><br>
> ><br>
> > Hi Sam,<br>
> ><br>
> > I'm guessing that you're trying to use the built-in
remote-base code in<br>
> > app_rpt?? If so, the only thing I can suggest at
this point is to use<br>
> > hamlib (the "rigctl" program), instead of the
built-in code.<br>
> ><br>
> > I use hamlib for several radios hosted by BBB's,
etc., and it works<br>
> > perfectly for me.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > 73, David KB4FXC<br>
> ><br>
> > On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Sam Skolfield wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > > Really too bad, I'm so close to success with
what is obviously one of<br>
> > very<br>
> > > few attempts at a frequency-agile BBB node.
Looking at the console with<br>
> > any<br>
> > > level of verbosity doesn't seem to reveal any
useful information.<br>
> > > Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I'll be
able to fix this any time<br>
> > soon.<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Sam Nabkey
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:sam.nabkey@gmail.com">sam.nabkey@gmail.com</a>><br>
> > wrote:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > > I wish I had time and more knowledge. ..<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > It's fun to try and figure it all out. .<br>
> > > > On Jun 16, 2015 5:06 PM, "Sam Skolfield"
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kj6qfs@gmail.com">kj6qfs@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > >> Hi Sam!<br>
> > > >> That's frustrating! Perhaps someone
can help us fix this bug? There<br>
> > has<br>
> > > >> to be more people that want to use
frequency agile remote bases than<br>
> > just<br>
> > > >> the two Sams....<br>
> > > >><br>
> > > >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Sam
Nabkey <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:sam.nabkey@gmail.com">sam.nabkey@gmail.com</a>><br>
> > wrote:<br>
> > > >><br>
> > > >>> This is one of the same issues I
experienced with the bbb code. The<br>
> > cli<br>
> > > >>> will be blowing can't hang up
errors at you while this is going on.<br>
> > My<br>
> > > >>> only recourse was to reboot.<br>
> > > >>><br>
> > > >>> I went to an acid version before
the changes were made to the channel<br>
> > > >>> drivers that was "fixed" to work
reliably on the bbb to get my<br>
> > remote to<br>
> > > >>> work.<br>
> > > >>><br>
> > > >>> Sam K8SN<br>
> > > >>> On Jun 16, 2015 8:04 AM, "Sam
Skolfield" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:kj6qfs@gmail.com">kj6qfs@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
> > > >>><br>
> > > >>>> David, I'm using a *1 xxxx
(xxxx being the node)<br>
> > > >>>><br>
> > > >>>>
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> > > >>>> Visit the BBB web page -<br>
> > > >>>> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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> > > >>><br>
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> > > >><br>
> > > >><br>
> > > >> --<br>
> > > >> KJ6QFS<br>
> > > >> Sam Skolfield<br>
> > > >><br>
> > > >>
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> > > >> Visit the BBB web page -<br>
> > > >> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/</a><br>
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> > > > Visit the BBB web page -<br>
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rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/</a><br>
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