[RTTY] USB DIGI KEYER II
Torben Kahr
oz9ga at kahrius.dk
Mon Nov 19 18:05:00 EST 2012
The uH Router is working OK with MacloggerDX and Mac OS X 10.7.5
I tryed it today. I will try it with cocoaModem later.
73
Torben OZ9GA
Den 19/11/2012 kl. 20.58 skrev Kok Chen:
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> On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
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>> Why, then, is there a Mackintosh (OS/X) section in the uHam drivers download page?
>
> Isn't that just the FTDI (serial port) driver?
>
> MicroHAM uses a packetized "Keyer Protocol" to encapsulate everything (rig control, FSK keying, CW keying, etc) into a single 230 kb/sec serial stream. You can find a short description of what is needed to communicate with the MicroHAM interface here:
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> http://www.w7ay.net/site/Applications/Router/Contents/keyerprotocol.html
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> To send just a single FSK character, you need to embedded the Baudot character into a correctly formatted packet of 16 bytes (20 bytes if you want to key a second radio). Likewise, each byte of rig CAT control takes 4 bytes, etc.
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> Router (on Windows) and uH Router (my program for the Mac) does this packetizing for you. (I believe RUMped/RUMlog also has means of talking directly to the "Keyer Protocol" interface.)
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> uH Router is only used by MacLoggerDX and cocoaModem on Mac OS X. Further, since I use Mac OS X 10.6 on all of my development machines, uH Router may or may not work on Mac OS X 10.7 and 10.8.
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> 73
> Chen, W7AY
>
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Torben Kahr
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