[Skimmertalk] CAT control conflicts

[Clive Whelan]

Thanks Pete. I guess I'm not using the latest version then. I'll take a 
look, thanks!

73


Clive
GW3NJW

Pete Smith wrote:
> 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
>
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