[hpsdr] SteppIR and Hermes

[Paul Fletcher]

I'm interested in this for another reason. I want to control an external 
tuner and I need to get the frequency out of the HPSDR box (not a computer 
as the computer will be remote).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vincenzo Capuano" <iz0rus at vgcsoft.org>
To: <hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 7:07 PM
Subject: [hpsdr] SteppIR and Hermes


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> The SteppIR antennas require to be connected to the CAT to know the 
> frequency in use and tune the antenna.
>
> With Hermes and PowerSDR that is fine as PSDR supports a CAT interface.
>
> But, I understand (or I haven't been able to find it) that cuSDR does not 
> currently have support for a CAT interface.
>
> To address this, I was thinking to write a simple CAT interface with a PIC 
> that reads the frequency from J15 in parallel with the amplifier/Alex and 
> puts the frequency on a serial port for the SteppIR controller to read it.
>
> A similar approach was used in the HELIOS 
> (http://openhpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=HELIOS) project that was 
> reading the frequency from the Atlas bus.
>
> I have a few questions:
>
> 1. Does Hermes provide the current frequency in use information on J15? Or 
> on another port?
> 2. Is there a better way to get this information?
> 3. Is this something somebody is already working on/planning to do it?
>
> 73,
> Vincenzo - IZ0RUS
>
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