Good points! I had forgotten about needing to get the radio to
re-read the mode info, ugh. In reality it might be worth taking this
approach just to solve the refresh problem.
An EXTERNAL to the radio ESP32 could provide CI-V to SB9600
translation plus be the basis for an Bluetooth or WiFi interface to
phone/tablet or head using app.
And ... ESP32 boads with RS485 support exist already for $21.57
(). It just so happens I have
two sitting on my self from a work project ... Damn them squirrels !
73's Skip WB6YMH
73's Skip WB6YMH
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On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 9:50 AM Dennis Boone <drb@...> wrote:
> Yea, but then you have to conform to the SB9600 protocol, yuck! For
> computer control you'd also need a SB9600 "gateway" or a rib and a
> serial port, again yuck.
Going back to Skip's comment, a couple of thoughts, devil's advocate:
1. But you don't have to find a hack/slash way to get your control path
out of the radio, because it's already there, and it's compatible with
the whole existing system.
2. One way to get the radio to notice new mode data set by the external
frequency agile control setup would be for the x9000cat-2022 to spoof a
mode change onto the sb9600 channel.
FWIW.
De
