Re: Yaesu ft847/100 control

From: Margaret Leber (xrxe.vbgljrmpoc@bradtech.co.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 19:49:01 EEST

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    Luc Langehegermann wrote:
    > Am Mo 16 Sep 2002 17:08 schrieb Douglas Cole:
    >
    >>Been a lurker for quite a while now , and have been learning lots about
    >>packet , but was wondering if anyone has done a gui/X based control proggie
    >>for the above radio's?
    >>
    >>I don't seem to have the brains to be a programmer and so am at the mercy
    >>of you folks who have ;^}
    >>
    >>I desire a Linux based program , as that is all I run at home , and I am
    >>willing to pay money for it if it is stable and X based .
    >>
    >>tia
    >
    >
    > Hmm... you could try using grig. Grig uses hamlib, and as far as i know,
    > hamlib supports both, the ft847 and the ft100

    Hiya Doug! Maggie from the AMSAT list here.

    Gee, I didn't know about GRig, although I have tried to keep up on
    Hamlib. Maybe I fell off the hamlib-developers list somehow.

    I do have a Java-based rig control program; the only interface module
    written for it so far is for the FT-847. I haven't had the opportunity
    to make it ready for release, which would have involved modifying it to
    use javax.comm to get to the serial ports on a Windows machine. Right
    now it just accesses the serial port that the radio is attached to
    though the file system, a trick that will only work on Linux or other
    *nixses, as far as I know.

    So...since you are on Linux too, Doug, I might make the code available
    to you to play with in its somewhat unfinished state. Looking at the
    GRig screenshot, I can see that it has some controls that my program
    does not. However, knowing the FT-847 CAT interface, I'm pretty sure the
    *radio* won't support any of the slider controls on the right hand side
    of the GUI. The JHamTune design is kind of the opposite; I'm trying to
    provide automated aids to operating the radio rather than making a GUI
    that does what the front panel of the radio does.

    For those who are interested, a screenshot and JavaDoc for JHamTune can
    be viewed at

        http://geocities.com/maggieleber/JHamTune/doc/

    Doug, for your reference, the GRig project page is:

        http://groundstation.sourceforge.net/?grig

    73 de Maggie K3XS, who is still looking for work,

       resume available at http://voicenet.com/~maggie/mslresume.html 

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