On 12 Sep 2001, at 6:33, Eric Rosenberg wrote:
>
> Here's a thought for you home-brewers or INRAD, who seems to
> come up with lots of innovative stuff!
>
> A nice feature of some other radios (Icom comes to mind) is that
> with ONE cable from the computer, you can:
>
> 1 - control the radio
> 2 - key the radio (PTT)
> 3 - send CW to the radio
>
> With the Omni 6+ I believe you can only do item #1
No, the Omni VI and VI+ serial port commands include PTT control.
>
> The answer may be an interface card for items #2 and 3 (and adding a
> 4th...an FSK signal) that is electrically connected to the radio's
> DB-25 in one of two ways:
>
There is already an FSK port in the Omni VI and VI+, but I do not
see how an FSK input helps with CW keying.
73,
Jan Ditzian
KX2A
kx2a@arrl.net
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