From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Margaret Leber Subject: Re: Yaesu ft847/100 control Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:49:01 -0400 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D860B7D.5000706@voicenet.com> References: <200209160808.22938.n7bfs@qwest.net> <200209161801.47199.lx2gt@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Luc Langehegermann Cc: n7bfs@qwest.net, linux-hams@vger.kernel.org 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 -- -----/___. _) Margaret Stephanie Leber / "The art of progress / ----/(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie / consists of preserving/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _ ` _AOPA 925383/ order amid change and / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ FN20hd / change amid order." / -/ (_/ ' K3XS .-/ .-/ ARRL 39280 /___ --A.N.Whitehead ___/ /____ICQ 7161096_(_/_(_/__AMSAT 32844____/