[WriteLog] Two ICOM's on one port

[Jerry Pixton]

Mike,

Are we getting a little carried away. As you say - all you need is an 
"address". Icom radios are the only ones that have an "address" which 
allows them to run on the same single wire buss. Yaesu and Kenwoods do not 
have addresses and interface to a standard RS232 serial port. Different 
architecture. You can not combine them.

Jerry, W6IHG

At 12:51 PM 9/25/2003 -0400, mikekirchoff at msn.com wrote:
>This is an interesting discussion.  It is clear to me that it can be done as
>however DX4WIN has done it, it is not at all limited to "ICOM only" or any
>other single manufacturer and the use of an CT-17 is not necessary either.
>The program only requires the radio type and address and the "port" location
>for each of the two radios. It other words, all of you who own the Yaesu's
>or whatever could put two radios on the same port as us minority owners of
>two ICOM's.  Even (this is probably a heresy or something) if one wanted to
>put a Yaesu and an ICOM on the same port, it seems that one could.
>
>I have 6 serial ports on my PC and they are all used (not all for ham
>radio). It sure works well, but for the record, I still wouldn't use
>anything but Writelog for contests even without what would be a very nice
>feature.
>
>73,
>
>Mike, W2OO
>
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