I am all for a "translator". I mentioned this elsewhere.
What about the "09" control head? Are they useful? Cheap enough? Plentiful?
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On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 03:04 PM, Joe M. 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:
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".
*asbestos suit*
De
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