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Hardware, Cabling, Installations / Re: Com Port Usage - Remotely Programming Yaesu 857D, Chirp,HRD, Etc.

« on: 2017-03-14, 04:17:07 »

Hi Kevin,

Page 17 of the RRC guide gives you the pin connections of COM2. Your radio manual should give you the details of the com port on the back of the rig.

If your cable can plug straight in to the COM2 socket on the RRC then you can probably use it between the RRC and the rig.

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Hardware, Cabling, Installations / Re: Com Port Usage - Remotely Programming Yaesu 857D, Chirp,HRD, Etc.

« on: 2017-03-14, 04:03:03 »

Hi Kevin,

I don't think you need any special cables or dongles to do this. I have a TS480 and this is exactly how I do my setup. In this scenario you will only have to make a cable to go from RRC radio COM2  to the serial port on your rig. Perhaps others that have your radio might offer an opinion.

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Hardware, Cabling, Installations / Re: Com Port Usage - Remotely Programming Yaesu 857D, Chirp,HRD, Etc.

« on: 2017-03-14, 03:30:22 »

Hook up your RRC control to your PC via the supplied USB cable. If you haven't done so before your PC will install a bunch of microbit drivers and after a time your device manager will have some new COM ports.

In my case I get

RRC 1258 COM0 (COM16)
RRC 1258 COM1 (COM13)
RRC 1258 COM2 (COM6)  Let's use this one as COM2 is normally unused.
RRC 1258 COMExtra (COM14)

Yours may be different but the important thing to note is each RRC COM port is mapped to a PC COM port.

Make up a cable to connect your rig body to COM2. There's plenty of detail in the RRC guide and your radio guide about the connections.

Remote in to your RRC control and configure COM2 for the correct mode, baud, bits, parity. Also set "Use USB Com Port as COM2" to yes.
Remote in to your RRC radio and configure COM2 for the correct mode, baud, bits, parity.
It should be obvious that the settings for both RRC boxes should be the same and they should match the serial settings in your rig.

Now the magic.

Leave the USB cable from RRC Control plugged in to your PC.

COM6 (in my case) on the PC is mapped to COM2 in RRC and COM2 in RRC is connected to your rig.

If you have all the above set correctly you will be able to open COM6 on your PC with whatever control program you want and manage your rig.

Harder to write than it is to do.

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Feature Requests / Feature request - VOX

« on: 2017-02-16, 09:26:13 »

I am using a Kenwood 480SAT with RRC SW 2.90 with Samsung S5 and RRC-NANO 1.5.1.

Connected via bluetooth in the car the nano makes a really cool accessory for drive time HF operation but the PTT is a problem.  I don't know how the TS480 manages the configuration but it would be really nice to have VOX with nano. I tried setting up VOX via RRC-control but the configuration did not stick when I then connected via nano.

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General / Re: App Trial Period Has expired

« on: 2017-02-13, 22:13:03 »

Hi,

I forgot to keep track of the demo period for RRC-NANO and it expired late last week. I purchased the license over the weekend but understand the registration in such cases is a manual process.

Could you please check the license for VK3ALB 35e0?

Thanks

It is now working. Thank you.

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General / Re: App Trial Period Has expired

« on: 2017-02-13, 06:37:30 »

Hi,

I forgot to keep track of the demo period for RRC-NANO and it expired late last week. I purchased the license over the weekend but understand the registration in such cases is a manual process.

Could you please check the license for VK3ALB 35e0?

Thanks

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Feature Requests / Feature request - tuning

« on: 2017-01-06, 09:42:48 »

I am using a Kenwood 480SAT with RRC SW 2.90 with Samsung S5 and RRC-NANO 1.5.1.

I find the VFO function a little too fast to tune by finger which means it is difficult to tune one step only. Is it possible to have a step up/down button either side of the VFO dial?