[WriteLog] Rig Control & PTT

[Jerry Flanders]

Buy one of the serial port manual switch boxes (and another cable to
connect from it to the rig). They are double-cheap at hamfests, but you pay
$20-30 at OFfice Depot type places.

They are big cnough to let you easily work inside to find the DTR/RTS lines
and solder a tap to it, and run the tap line out a crack/hole in the box.
In mine, I would have plenty of room to build the opto interface into it.

A bonus is that you can use the switch to provide serial port access to
another device when you are not hamming.

Jerry W4UK

At 12:03 PM 12/16/00 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Anyone know of a good way to split out the DTR (or RTS) signals on the rig 
>control serial port? My FT-920 doesn't support PTT on the rig port, but if 
>I could get to DTR or RTS on that same serial cable, I could route those 
>through an optoisolator to drive the external PTT on the rig. I suppose 
>there must be some sort of "breakout box" you can put in line with the 
>cable but not sure what it is or who carries it.
>
>Any ideas short of building my own custom cable?
>
>-Marty NW0L


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