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Kenwood TS-480 BPQ32 and VARA HF configuration help

 

Yes I forgot to mention that PTT CAT should work in your setup too.
Now go to VARA Settings->Soundcard and see that something like USB Audio Device is chosen.
There is also a Drive level slider, inctease, until your rig shows output when pressing TUNE.
In Windows PC you also have level adjustment for "Speakers" USB Audio Device, set it near MAX .
Use then VARA Drive level to set ALC=1/3
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Jouko OH5RM
 

Jouko
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I did had performed your recommendations and also in the radio the MIC data volume has been set to 9, the maximum.
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I have been reading the radio manual and what I understood is that the RTS needs to be high on the DB9 CAT port so the radio switches to the data port MIC.
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In WSTJ-X for it to work properly that's a setting that needs to be activated as the screen shoot provided, is there a command for RIGCONTROL to achieve this?
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I was reading BPQ32 documentation it states that RIGCONTROL commands are legacy and it will continue to be active for backward combability but I cant find anywhere all the available commands on the documentation.
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John
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Is this documentation for radio with its own internal sound card:
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This will switch the modulation source to Soundcard when a Sound Card modem sets PTT and return it to the AUX connector when PTT is dropped. With the ICOM rigs, if you want to select a different input when the sound card is not selected, you can add MIC, AUX or MICAUX after?PTT_SETS_INPUT. So if you are using the MIC connector for an SCS Tracker and the AUX for a PTC you could have

RIGCONTROL COM8 19200 ICOM IC7100 88 ?PTT_SETS_INPUT?MICAUX

Normally the radio should be set to accept input from the hardware TNC before running BPQ.

Some Kenwood radios use a different CAT command (TX1 instead of TX) to select USB input. If this is the case use the DATAPTT command. You may need to experiment to see if you need DATAPTT instead of or as well as PTT_SETS_INPUT with these radios.
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If want to rise the RTS in the CAT port for the radio can I use the PTT_SETS_INPUT, can you provide an example?
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Thanks
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Heber NP4JN
 

So I have good news, IT'S WORKING!
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Adding the command RIGCONTROL the option of DATAPTT that I found used for radios with internal sound card like the Yaesu FT-991A did the trick!
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This is the working config for the Kenwood TS-480 with VARA HF and BPQ32:
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;------------------------------------------- ?VARA HF PORT -------------------------------------
PORT
?ID=VARA
?PORTNUM=5
?DRIVER=VARA
?CONFIG
? ADDR 127.0.0.1 8303 PTT CAT PATH C:\VARA\VARA.exe
?RIGCONTROL
? COM3 19200 KENWOOD TS480 DATAPTT
? 10.1476,USB
?***
?BW500
ENDPORT
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Thanks to all who helped in this journey on reviving an old HF radio to life!
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Heber NP4JN
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