[WriteLog] PTT THROUGH RADIO CONTROL (LITERALLY)

[David Hachadorian]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Schimelpfenig" <k7sv at adelphia.net>
To: <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:01 AM
Subject: [WriteLog] PTT THROUGH RADIO CONTROL (LITERALLY)


> My ICOM 746 and 756PROII radios will do PTT through radio control. 
> When I
> say that I don't mean it uses DTR or RTS on the same port as radio 
> control.
> I mean within the radio control command table there is a data block 
> that is
> described as "Exchanges transmit and receive (0=Rx, 1=Rx). This 
> means that
> simply by virtue of having radio control, you can key and unkey the 
> radio
> through Writelog and MMTTY. It's very handy with rtty and for the 
> voice
> keyer.
>
> Do any of you know if any of the other radio manufacturers provide 
> this
> feature as well?

The TS-850 does it, so probably all of the Kenwoods do.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ