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CAT command for the Spot


 

Is there a CAT command for the SPOT function?? I tried the tune command from the FLEX command list and nothing.? Trying to set up something in FLRIG to control my antenna tuner.?? Also can the SPOT or TX level be controlled by CAT?


Thanks
Ryan
KK6DZB


 

There is currently no HamLib control for Spot. The command does not seem to exist in rig 2. What commands from the Flex ZZ list do you want to add?

Jim
N2ADR


 

I have once made a "GUI rig controller" and this is how I implemented
emitting a "TUNE" using hamlib:

a) set power to desired value
b) change mode to FM
c) activate PTT

at the end of "TUNE" I then do

a) deactivate PTT
b) change mode to previous mode
c) set power to previous value

For each step, there is a hamlib command, while there seems to be none
for just emitting a carrier.

Am 08.12.2022 um 22:18 schrieb jimahlstrom <jahlstr@...>:

There is currently no HamLib control for Spot. The command does not seem to exist in rig 2. What commands from the Flex ZZ list do you want to add?

Jim
N2ADR


Michael Black
 

Hamlib knows nothing about audio so cannot, by itself, generate any audio.
Rig in FM or CW should generate a carrier as opposed to USB/LSB with a suppressed carrier.

Mike W9MDB

On Friday, December 9, 2022 at 02:15:30 AM CST, Christoph v. W¨¹llen <dl1ycf@...> wrote:





I have once made a "GUI rig controller" and this is how I implemented
emitting a "TUNE" using hamlib:

a) set power to desired value
b) change mode to FM
c) activate PTT

at the end of "TUNE" I then do

a) deactivate PTT
b) change mode to previous mode
c) set power to previous value

For each step, there is a hamlib command, while there seems to be none
for just emitting a carrier.

Am 08.12.2022 um 22:18 schrieb jimahlstrom <jahlstr@...>:

There is currently no HamLib control for Spot. The command does not seem to exist in rig 2. What commands from the Flex ZZ list do you want to add?

Jim
N2ADR


 

yes, but hamlib lacks a "TUNE" functionality (just emitting a carrier) and
temporarily switching to FM (or AM, for that matter, but with less power) and activating PTT
gives you right that. So in my "Rig controller GUI", whenever I hit the
"TUNE" button, the reported sequence of events (all possible with hamlib)
is emitted.

The original post wanted to by-pass hamlib and directly send a CAT command (many rigs
*do* have such a command), and I wanted to show just a "compatible" procedure.

Yours,

Am 09.12.2022 um 15:37 schrieb Michael Black via groups.io <mdblack98@...>:

Hamlib knows nothing about audio so cannot, by itself, generate any audio.
Rig in FM or CW should generate a carrier as opposed to USB/LSB with a suppressed carrier.

Mike W9MDB










On Friday, December 9, 2022 at 02:15:30 AM CST, Christoph v. W¨¹llen <dl1ycf@...> wrote:





I have once made a "GUI rig controller" and this is how I implemented
emitting a "TUNE" using hamlib:

a) set power to desired value
b) change mode to FM
c) activate PTT

at the end of "TUNE" I then do

a) deactivate PTT
b) change mode to previous mode
c) set power to previous value

For each step, there is a hamlib command, while there seems to be none
for just emitting a carrier.

Am 08.12.2022 um 22:18 schrieb jimahlstrom <jahlstr@...>:

There is currently no HamLib control for Spot. The command does not seem to exist in rig 2. What commands from the Flex ZZ list do you want to add?

Jim
N2ADR










Michael Black
 

Hamlib does have a "TUNER" function but it depends on the rig supporting it.

U TUNER 1
U TUNER 0

Mike W9MDB

On Friday, December 9, 2022 at 09:27:19 AM CST, Christoph v. W¨¹llen <dl1ycf@...> wrote:





yes, but hamlib lacks a "TUNE" functionality (just emitting a carrier) and
temporarily switching to FM (or AM, for? that matter, but with less power) and activating PTT
gives you right that. So in my "Rig controller GUI", whenever I hit the
"TUNE" button, the reported sequence of events (all possible with hamlib)
is emitted.

The original post wanted to by-pass hamlib and directly send a CAT command (many rigs
*do* have such a command), and I wanted to show just a "compatible" procedure.

Yours,



Am 09.12.2022 um 15:37 schrieb Michael Black via groups.io <mdblack98@...>:

Hamlib knows nothing about audio so cannot, by itself, generate any audio.
Rig in FM or CW should generate a carrier as opposed to USB/LSB with a suppressed carrier.

Mike W9MDB










On Friday, December 9, 2022 at 02:15:30 AM CST, Christoph v. W¨¹llen <dl1ycf@...> wrote:





I have once made a "GUI rig controller" and this is how I implemented
emitting a "TUNE" using hamlib:

a) set power to desired value
b) change mode to FM
c) activate PTT

at the end of "TUNE" I then do

a) deactivate PTT
b) change mode to previous mode
c) set power to previous value

For each step, there is a hamlib command, while there seems to be none
for just emitting a carrier.

Am 08.12.2022 um 22:18 schrieb jimahlstrom <jahlstr@...>:

There is currently no HamLib control for Spot. The command does not seem to exist in rig 2. What commands from the Flex ZZ list do you want to add?

Jim
N2ADR










 

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 10:39 AM, Michael Black wrote:
Hamlib does have a "TUNER" function but it depends on the rig supporting it.
I will add this to Quisk.?

Jim
N2ADR


 

Thank you for the responses. ?I should have been mor clear in what I want to accomplish. ?I need to be able to activate the spot function which sends out the carrier and at the same time activate the rts or dtr pin from a serial port. ?I have a small circuit built and connected to the rts dtr pins that activates the tuner to go into ¡°tune¡±. ?I had this setup in my ddutil on windows where via macros I could combine the two outputs together and believe I can do this in flrig. ?It would be great if this could be done natively in quisk but didn¡¯t think that was likely. ?


 

Hello Ryan,

The simplest way to do this is to just press the Spot button and have it assert RTS. This is easy from your own hardware file. That is why Quisk has hardware files.?

Jim
N2ADR


 

Jim. ?This is what I wanted to hear thank you. ?I am not sure how to do that but will start looking.