[WriteLog] Wrong Frequency (Sub Band) Logged with IC756

[Ric Plummer]

ICOM has an architectural ( as in computer architecture ) deficiency in all
of it's interface
protocols. This is, specifically, the computer can not read the state of the
radios split mode.
The computer can set and clear it, but it has no idea weather it is in split
or not.
This is the reason WL has special features for ICOM split and how it deals
with this terrible blunder
on Icom's part.
I love the PRO, but this is a real problem for computer control.
Having said that, let the computer control the split, in an absolute sense,
and it will log the frequencies the computer has put there, split or
otherwise. Now, it still isn't perfect, but if the split is set from the
computer it's OK, if you manual change it, it still has some issues, but I
haven't fully characterized them yet.
Read the help on ICOM Force Split and give some of this a try

Ric KV1W

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Pixton" <jpixton at shentel.net>
To: <barry at mxg.com>; <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 20:40
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Wrong Frequency (Sub Band) Logged with IC756


> Barry,
>
> I think this is a fault with the 756proII, not with Writelog. When I
> manually set a split, the radio reports out the frequency of the active
VFO
> (which ever one I have selected) and does not report to Writelog that it
is
> really in split mode (I see no command to just read the state of "split").
> So a qso gets the same frequency logged for Rx and Tx because as far as
> Writelog is concerned that is true. Now when I tell Writelog to command
> split, now writelog knows that it has to read the frequency from both vfos
> and that they are being used for the same qso and it records the
> frequencies correctly.
>
> So it is operator choice. Set split manually and correct the Rx freqency
or
> let Writelog set the split.
>
> Jerry, W6IHG
>
>
>
>
> At 11:54 AM 8/3/2003 -0500, barry merrill wrote:
> >With ICOM756PROII, whenever the Sub-Receiver is Active,
> >the wrong frequency is logged by WriteLog 10.40J,
> >in both the Transmit and Receive Frequencys.
>
>
> >The Sub Receiver Frequency, instead of the actual TX
> >frequency, is logged in Transmit and Receive, and
> >this caused real logging errors, putting valid QSOs
> >on the wrong band.
> >
> >Is their a correction/option to record the transmit frequency
> >instead of the Sub Band Receive frequency?
> >
> >
> >And is there a way to make the SETUP==>Display Format>> Transmit
Frequency
> >always one? Setting it and then SAVE CONFIGURATION does not retain the
> >enablement when the same wl file is reopened.
> >
> >
> >Barry, W5GN
> >
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