Great set of links, Jim! Thanks.
Hope it'll help the guys who are still using old radios.
Yuri
-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Brown
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 2:59 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL Contest Changes for 2017-2018 - Sept QST p91
On 7/27/2017 6:16 AM, Yuri wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that nowadays to interface your rig to the computer would be
> faster and easier than to write this e-mail.
Not necessarily easy, but definitely better. Also, a better contest logger
might help. Here's an excerpt for your rig from doc for N1MM Plus.
I don't know if he's still around, but there used to be a guy (maybe more than
one) building CI-V interfaces from an old QST article and selling them on the
internet or at hamfests. They worked fine. Google found these on the first page
http://www.blackcatsystems.com/usbciv/usb_icom_ci-v_interface.html
http://www.qsl.net/g3vgr/civ.html
http://www.g4zlp.co.uk/unified/IcomCAT.shtml
https://www.amazon.com/Interface-Cable-IC-706-Works-Desktops-Laptops/dp/B008MTQZCS
Over the winter, I bought cables to program a Kenwood TH-F6A and Kenwood
TM-D71A (think that's the model number) on EBay from a ham in San Jose.
They are reasonably well built and work fine. Here's his listing for a CI-V
cable.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FTDI-USB-Icom-Programming-Cable-CAT-CI-V-CT-17-/152476328846?hash=item23804c238e:g:rOcAAOSwpINZZWN0
73, Jim K9YC
7.20. IC-751/751A using address 1C hex
+ There are several limitations caused by the lack of some
CI-V commands. VFO select and split commands are not
supported. This will prevent the program from controlling
the radio split and reading or programming VFOB frequency.
SO2V mode should not be attempted and VFOB's Bandmap and
Entry windows can be closed.
To communicate with the radio, the baud rate, CI-V Transceive, and number of
bytes of frequency data must be set correctly. This is set via a DIP switch on
the Icom UX-14 interface board. Using the DIP switch S1 location in the
beginning of the manual (page 11 has the DIP switch positions reversed) set S1
to the following:
1-------------6
On - Off - Off - Off - Off - On
This will set the baud rate to 9600, the length of the frequency information to
5 bytes, and turn CI-V Transceive OFF.
If the radio contains the Piexx UX-14 CI-V board, set the DIP switches per the
Piexx manual for the same configuration
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