On 1/4/2021 12:09 PM, Teton Amateur Radio Repeater Association (TARRA) wrote:
You are close. There is a DTMF command that will activate the RS-232 connection:
Good point, I missed this.
The other thing I am curious about, once the controller programmed, is there that much that you really need to keep doing a full programming for??? You can make changes by DTMF commands.
Once you have computer access to the CAT1000 you can download the 8 files that contain all the programmed information. You can then run a DOS program called CAT.EXE to display all of the settings. There is an option in CAT.EXE to print out a nice document that shows all the programming information. The problem is that it wants to direct the document to the LPT port. Most people no longer have a printer that connects to an LPT port, so you need to run a DOS program that directs the printout from the LPT port to a text file.
73, Joe, K1ike
