[TenTec] BW and Eagle

[Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP]

You guys have been very active while I was asleep.

The WIN-TEST program does not have any way of sending user-definable
commands to the radio after it has been initialized, except of course band
and frequency commands.  It is not possible for the user to do anything
except point and double-click within the Band Map (which changes frequencies
within the band you are on) or to change bands by using the software's Band
Change buttons.

The BW=0 is what is missing during the initialization process.  That is what
I added to my driver when I took a shot at modifying the O2 driver.  But my
driver wouldn't work at all.  

I will describe the Band Map problem in a separate email and mark the
subject line as such.
Thanks for the effort John, Carl, Laurent, and anyone else who has helped.

73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)


-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of John Henry
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 12:24 AM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: [TenTec] BW and Eagle

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Re Carls inputs:
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John,

If the CAT program sends a BW of zero, that puts control back to the pot.  I
do that in my N4PY Orion program.  So each BW change, I follow it with a
zero BW.  So can you make the BW command actually be two commands with the
second one a width of 0?  I actually send "*RMF0 Cr"
after each BW setting.

Carl Moreschi N4PY
58 Hogwood Rd
Louisburg, NC 27549www.n4py.com

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See, this is how you do it. Carl is correct, a BW command of 0 gives the
control back to the front panel pot.
If I can find a way to do that in the Eagle INI file, I will add it, if not,
well, then it is something that Win-Test users will just have to understand,
use the CAT program to adjust the BW period, and you CANNOT use the front
panel from then on. I'll confer with the omnirig author and see if he has a
suggestion on how to handle this peculiarity in the Eagle.

Thank you very much Carl for bringing that to everyone's attention, and how
a professional developer handled this in his control program. If others did
the same, we would ALL make great progress in these idyosychrosies of the
rigs. Of course, I could add an option to always allow BW control via POT,
but that is oddd.

All, understand something odd.
The POT is decoded in voltage steps.
Each voltage step is assigned a bandwidth.
If you have a voltage step set that means 1200hz selected.
Then use the CAT program to adjust down to 200hz.
Then want to skooch the bandwidth a bit narrower by using the front panel,
and just touch it a bit ccw, well, you will go from 200hz to 1000hz,
confusing the crap out of you... .Is that what you want?
That is why we did what we did, using a pot, right or wrong. When you adjust
via CAT command, we forget the pot, when you send a BW of 0 via cat command,
we re-enable the pot.

Thanks, and 73,
John Henry, KI4JPL
TEN-TEC Engineering, a Division of RFConcepts LLC
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