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<p class=MsoNormal>With Excalibur shipping soon, I started thinking about
integrating a Thunderbolt GPS disciplined oscillator into my station. There
is some good software that lets you manage that device, Trimble’s
TBoltMon and a really nice app called Lady Heather by Mark S. Sims and John
Miles (KE5FX). However, since I have custom software (written in
C#) that controls my station, I wanted to integrate the Thunderbolt into that.
I intend to monitor 10MHz accuracy, drive another LED display (in a modified
SB-634 station console) with GPS disciplined UTC, a *<b>really</b>*
accurate ID timer, automatic maidenhead grid locators for logging, integrate it
into KISS, etc. etc. I couldn’t find any existing C# code for
the TSIP protocol so after a quick e-chat with Mark and John, they graciously
gave me permission to derive a C# TSIP packet processing class from their work
and publish it to the Ham and SDR communities.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The application that tests this class is similar to TBoltMon
and is in Alpha condition; very much a work in progress. I’d
appreciate any comments or thoughts on how to improve it. Please Email me
off list to keep the noise down until it’s ready for general release.
It supports Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt-E models (although I don’t
have an E model to test with). It requires VS2008 to compile and the zip file
contains source only; binaries are not available yet.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>You can download it here: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://alvargi.50megs.com/HPSDR/TBoltControl.zip">http://alvargi.50megs.com/HPSDR/TBoltControl.zip</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Dan (N7HQ)<o:p></o:p></p>
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