Re: [ANN] Hamlib 1.2.5 released

["Patrick A. Ouellette" <pat@flying-gecko.net>]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 07:39:37AM -0800, Douglas Cole wrote:
> 
> On 2/27/06, Ricardo Saiz Villoria <rsaizv@yahoo.es> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I am trying to do exactly the same thing. I cannot drill the walls in my
> > apartment so I will leave my rig (yaesu 817) close to the antenna, with
> > its serial port and mic/spk connected to an old pentium.
> >
> > I have managed to make grig-hamlib work under debian 3.1 with my ft 817,
> > see: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1449631&forum_id=80395
> 
> I like the idea of Grig, but I think it requires running X and Gnome,
> which I had hoped not to do, since what I am going to be doing will be
> on a low bandwidth link, but I will give it a look and see if I can
> run it via an VNC session, I was hoping to get something going with an
> ncurses interface so that X did not have to be running...
> 

At the risk of sounding low tech, you could use a telnet/ssh session to
the remote PC and run rigctl to change settings.  Not the flashy
monitoring of grig or an ncurses interface, but it would get the job
done.

You still have to get the audio to and from the radio....

73,

Pat KB8PYM
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