Hi Cassie

It looks like David has answered all. I am on the other side of the world so some sleeping delay involved. Some notes;

One trap you might fall into later and should just keep in mind is that the audio device in the 9100 is split left/right (ie stereo) between the main and sub bands. In general terms that means the top frequency display on the rig is main and the lower one is sub. The sub band in normal "non satellite" mode is RX only. I for example TX/RX on 30m whilst concurrenty RX only on 2mFM.?

In rig satellite mode however the sub band is the one that TX/RX's and the main is RX only. For satellite half duplex it is unlikely you'd use satellite mode, but one day you might want to run both 70cm and 2m for sats or even concurrently listen on HF for something. This will also tend to get confusing if you use a satellite tracking, operating frequency program to compensate for Doppler.

As mentioned, just keep in mind for later.

Regarding the non Icom response and bind/in use error. I have found (in Debian) that the GPS daemon (gpsd) often grabs the first USB port regardless. It actually happens before the daemon even starts and is to do with a socket allocation on finding an external USB device. Sorry I don't remember all the details. I assume you will eventually want to connect a GPS device. If not I suggest you remove gpsd from the installation as a quick way out. If you eventually need to (eventually) connect a GPS unit get back to me for assist. The other bind/conflict problem is the dialup modem manager. If you don't use a dialup modem, the easy workaround is to rename /sbin/ModemManager to /sbin/ModemManager.disabled. Yes there are nicer ways but that works.

I assume you changed the rigs serial speed from Auto to 19200? That along with setting dialout perms might also be the reason for no response.

When testing with rigctld in a separate shell/window there is no need to background the process. ie omit the ampersand (&) from the command end. (Backgrounding is what the [1] response line indicates) It's only really needed if you have inserted it early in the direwolf startup script. I cant really comment where that is on your system. The -vvv command option is a log verbosity thing so reducing that to (say) -v or even omitting might eventually be in order.

Cheers Bob VK2YQA

On 24/8/24 01:08, cdres wrote:

You both are just wealths of knowledge here. I will be apologizing at multiple points for what I see as very 'noob' questions. I am just so grateful to have someone know what I'm talking about. The? only person who had a strong sense of any of this project graduated last semester, so I have a lot to catch up on. For reference, the end goal of this project is to have this 9100 and computer set as a ground station for a cube satellite that will be flying with a TRX-VU radio board. Just to put things in perspective for you all. Now on to the updates...

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Referencing the section you posted below, a few questions.

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"When using the USB only connection the PTT goes in on the first serial port as an Icom CI-V command. The 9100 does not support RTS etc PTT signalling. The easiest way to handle that IMO is to install hamlib and run the rigctld daemon before starting direwolf. In my case I have the following in the dw startup;

/usr/local/bin/rigctld -m 3068 -vvv -r /dev/icom9100a -s 19200 -c 0x7c &?? "

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Forgive me if this is a really embarrassing question, but where would I add that line with the correct dev into the direwolf startup? I will install hamlib, too. once I figure out which version to download... I'll work on that this afternoon.?

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I did the dmesg and confirmed the radio is USB0 and USB1- so, would I use /dev/USB0 in the rigctld line?

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Going into the instructions on the 9.1.3, when I use arecord/aplay -l commands, it only shows two cards-

arecord -l

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Since I haven't actually finalized the direwolf config file, I won't try to run it quite yet. I'd like to make sure I get the PTT line correct and make sure I get hamlib installed in order to have that run appropriately.

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That's all I have at the moment... but I will be back in the lab this afternoon to try to hammer out something beneficial. Again, I appreciate your help, and you patience as I try to get caught up on what this all means.

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Thanks again,

Cassie

KJ5HMK

aplay -l:

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