[Skimmertalk] CAT control conflicts

[Pete Smith]

At 07:39 AM 11/15/2008, you wrote:
>I know that Larry/N6NC has already encountered this issue and addressed
>it by using a separate rx with its own dedicated COM port. I am way off
>such a scheme at present
>
>However I wonder if anyone else has addressed the matter differently?
>I'm using N1MM logger with the mH MK2R+ interface. Selecting the
>preconfigured virtual USB/COM ports for each radio in the SO2R set up (
>COM4 and COM6 as it happens) for Skimmer works just fine, but then of
>course CAT control is not available to N1MM. Paradoxically Skimmer's
>spots are sent to the N1MM bandmap via the dedicated telnet client, but
>of course the radios can't be QSYd to the spot as CAT is unavailable.
>
>I wonder therefore if anyone has worked out a way to use another of the
>virtual ports in the mH router software to dedicate to Skimmer, or
>perhaps some other solution such as sharing?

If you are running the latest Router you will discover that it provides two 
CAT ports for each radio - all you have to do is point Skimmer to one CAT 
port and N1MM to the other.  In limited testing, it seems to work very well.

73, Pete