[hpsdr] virtual serial utility for logging program?

[George Byrkit]

Ken,
You don't see it because you're looking at the problem backwards or inside-out!  You are
assuming that the hardware has a 'virtual serial port', which of course it DOES NOT,
because neither Metis/ Ozy, Mercury or Penelope/PennyLane have them, so of course Hermes
doesn't have one!

You should instead be looking at PowerSDR which provides CAT encoding, acting like a
virtual serial port supporting the Kenwood CAT protocol.  This is a well-known property of
PowerSDR, and allows logging programs or programs like Alex's BandMaster to control
PowerSDR and thus the OpenHPSDR radios.  It's too complex for KISS to be likely to ever
have that feature!  Then you use something like 'com0com' to create the virtual serial
cable.

And this same Kenwood CAT virtual support is how you would use PowerSDR with, say, a
SteppIR antenna, which needs to know what frequency you are tuned to if you want the
SteppIR antenna to automatically adjust to the tuned frequency.

73,
George K9TRV


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