Hi,
just received my GSOC for my X5105 today (FW 1.2 installed) but after a quick look in the manual and sorting the cabling (IF out and the standard X5101 comm cable) the GSOC turned out to be nothing more than an expensive waterfall display. I played around about 1 hour and found out a few things:
- frequency and mode change initiated from GSOC work
- if display works (but would also work with a cheap SDR dongle and HDSRD grabbing at 70MHz)
- GSOC does not recognize TX mode (if i hook up the mic on GSOC instead of X5105, GSOC switches to TX mode but no TX initiated on X5105)
- GSOC SWR scan does not work (though X5105 seems to turn off squelch during check initiated from GSOC but thats it) - SWR check on X5105 can be initiated via menue, but in that case the display stays on X5101
- Filters can be clicked but no change on TRX
- Queueing of CW or PSK stored messages on GSOC dont initinate tranmission on X5105 (did not hook it up to antenna, will check during next days if at least RX decoding would work)
- no menue for WLAN/BT on GSOC (but maybe I did simply not find it as I did not spend much time today)
So short summary of quick check so far: nothing beside frequency and mode change seem to work, probalby waterfall display works, will check with antenna during next days.
Hopefully I will discover more things but for now it seems to be only benficial if you own a G90 radio - for X5105, which has already all you need its just a pricey display.
73, Peter
