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General discussion forum / RemoteRig at WW1USA

« on: 2015-02-12, 03:30:54 »

Just thought folks would like to know - WW1USA, a recurring special event commemorating significant events in World War 1, has used RemoteRig equipment extensively in our last 2 events - December 27-28, 2014 and February 7-8, 2015.  For both events, the RemoteRig setups included a IC-706 using a pair of RRC-1258MkIIs and a FT-857 using a RRC-1258MkIIs and the PC-Client.  Between the two events, over 1500 contacts were logged on the two stations.  We worked some pretty deep pileups with both stations.  Both stations worked flawlessly for the 31-hour duration of each event.

For more information about WW1USA, see our website at www.WW1USA.org.

Herb NZ0F
QSL Manager for WW1USA

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General discussion / Problem Reading COM port - RRC-Micro

« on: 2014-11-24, 00:48:36 »

I'm setting up my FT-857 to use with the RRC-Micro application.  I have successfully gotten the audio to work in both directions and can send it CAT commands, but I'm not receiving any CAT info back from the radio, i.e. it's unable to read the frequency which prevents HRD from starting.  I found another CAT control app that lets me send commands and have confirmed that works, but nothing seems to be coming back the other direction on the COM port.   I have a hunch it may be the aftermarket CT-62 cable I have so I've ordered a genuine Yaesu CT-62 cable, but want to be sure I haven't done something stupid in my setup. 

The CT-62 is connected to the RRC-Radio at COM2 and then plugged into the CAT port on the FT-857.  There are no other CAT devices connected and COM1 on the RRC-Radio is not connected to anything.   I've confirmed that the Radio is set to 9600 baud and have also tried 4800 and 38400.

The FT-857 remote head is connected to the radio - the only connections to the RRC-Radio are the mic, the speaker input from the headphone out of the FT-857 control head and COM2 to CAT on the 857.  If I remove the head and connect COM0, the radio powers itself on and off continuously as soon as RRC-Micro connects.

My other configuration info is below.

Thanks
Herb NZ0F

RRC-Radio Settings:
COM0 baudrate   64000
COM0 data bits   8
COM0 stop bits   1
COM0 parity   0
COM0 Program mode 3 char timeout   2
Use USB Com Port as COM0   0
COM1 mode   0
COM1 baudrate   9600
COM1 data bits   8
COM1 stop bits   2
COM1 parity   0
COM1 rts/cts   0
COM1 terminator (hex)   00
Use USB Com Port as COM1   0
COM2 mode   4
COM2 baudrate   9600
COM2 data bits   8
COM2 stop bits   2
COM2 parity   0
COM2 terminator (hex)   00
Use USB Com Port as COM2   0
COM3 mode (USB-COMFSK)   10
UDP cmd port   5063
UDP audio port   5062
SIP port   5061
Web server port   80
Telnet server port   23

RRC-Micro Settings:
COM 0 and 1 are set to inactive
COM 2 is set to Mode 3, COM2, no terminator, 40ms timeout.