My thoughts on this were to try to use an MCS2000 head translated to whatever format decided upon. They are about the only full keypad CH available in any numbers that are cheap and more advanced.
On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 2:04 PM Joe M. <
mch@...> wrote:
Would it be possible to use say a Spectra control head
or even an XTL CH and interface that with the X/9000?
I'm thinking have a CH that talks to the interface,
then the interface talks to whatever the radio is.
(IOW: a translater that uses the CH input
and programs the radio accordingly)
Some of those older CHs are dated and limited.
Joe M.
On 8/8/2022 2:55 PM, Dennis Boone wrote:
>? ?> So questions for all that are interested:
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> This wasn't exactly a question, but:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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".
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