I'm not against it and I thing it would be great.?
As a personal goal I would still like to pursue some verion of a project that is a full featured touch interface with front panel programming, VFO, scan, large alphanumeric names based on regular fonts with per channel PL/DCS programmability. Basically a low-band Yaesu type unit. These things are just too high performing RF wise not to be explited to the maximum, in my opinion. Of course, that leads to things becoming much more tedious, custimized, probably much more cost and custom?work. Probably more of a personal project.
Just getting a handle on the basic TX/RX and signalling controls of it is the key. From there the options are unlimited.
On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 1:55 PM Dennis Boone <drb@...> wrote:
?> So questions for all that are interested:
This wasn't exactly a question, but:
I'll point out that for the X, one of the very handy things about having
an Xcat is that you don't need to unbutton the radio to fish out its
code plug unit.? Even if you're not doing VFO, it's a far easier reflash
over serial.
For either the X or the 9000, the "RSS" is a lot easier to interact
with, since it's not constrained to suitcase programmers, slow DOS
machines, weird text-file driven unix command line tools, etc.
What I'm roughly suggesting is that for both the Xcat-2022 and the
Xcat9000-2022, one potentially nice operating mode to preserve is "load
the code plug, then use the native control heads".
