Anyone using the Secondary CAT Serial Port in Commander to interface with Acom's 600S, 700S, or 1200S solid state amplifiers?

Steve, N5EP

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Anyone using the Secondary CAT Serial Port in Commander to interface with Acom's 600S, 700S, or 1200S solid state amplifiers?

+ I use the Secondary CAT port to interface with my SPE 2K-FA, emulating the Kenwood CAT protocol. Which CAT protocols can the Acom amps monitor?

73,

Dave, AA6YQ

The manual for the 1200S has a table on page 22 listing Elecraft, Icom, Kenwood, and Yaesu.

Sounds like I just need to make up a custom cable for the amp's DB15 connector.

73,

Steve, N5EP

+ AA6YQ comments below

The manual for the 1200S has a table on page 22 listing Elecraft, Icom, Kenwood, and Yaesu.

Sounds like I just need to make up a custom cable for the amp's DB15 connector.

+ That's exactly what I did. Configure the Secondary CAT port to follow the Primary. I recommend using the Kenwood protocol.

+ You can use Commander's Messages window to monitor what's being sent to the Secondary CAT Port:

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73,

Dave, AA6YQ

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Hi Dave

I'm curious as to why one would want do that versus using the program that comes with the Expert Amplifiers?

t u 73 Dwight NSS9I

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I'm curious as to why one would want do that versus using the program that comes with the Expert Amplifiers?

+ How would that program track the transceiver frequency with Commander running and connected to the transceiver's CAT port?

+ Since the SPE application is passive -- it just monitors CAT commands -- one could use a port splitter application to allow both the SPE application and the Commander to access the transceiver's CAT port. That approach requires starting and running new additional applications, compared to simply using Commander's Secondary CAT port

73,

Dave