<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi Ken,<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">When it comes to CAT encoding, PowerSDR is very feature rich. Thank you Bob, K5KDN, Bill, KD5TFD and the folks at FlexRadio. The only thing I would add to George's comments is use either VSP or VSPE as your port mangler (manager). IMHO, both are superior to com0com.<br></div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">73,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Dan N4XWE</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> George Byrkit <ghbyrkit@chartermi.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> hpsdr@lists.openhpsdr.org <br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, October 16, 2012 1:43 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [hpsdr] virtual serial utility for logging program?<br> </font> </div> <br>
***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****<br><br>Ken,<br>You don't see it because you're looking at the problem backwards or inside-out! You are<br>assuming that the hardware has a 'virtual serial port', which of course it DOES NOT,<br>because neither Metis/ Ozy, Mercury or Penelope/PennyLane have them, so of course Hermes<br>doesn't have one!<br><br>You should instead be looking at PowerSDR which provides CAT encoding, acting like a<br>virtual serial port supporting the Kenwood CAT protocol. This is a well-known property of<br>PowerSDR, and allows logging programs or programs like Alex's BandMaster to control<br>PowerSDR and thus the OpenHPSDR radios. It's too complex for KISS to be likely to ever<br>have that feature! Then you use something like 'com0com' to create the virtual serial<br>cable.<br><br>And this same Kenwood CAT virtual support is how you would use PowerSDR with, say, a<br>SteppIR antenna,
which needs to know what frequency you are tuned to if you want the<br>SteppIR antenna to automatically adjust to the tuned frequency.<br><br>73,<br>George K9TRV<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>HPSDR Discussion List<br>To post msg: <a ymailto="mailto:hpsdr@openhpsdr.org" href="mailto:hpsdr@openhpsdr.org">hpsdr@openhpsdr.org</a><br>Subscription help: http://lists.openhpsdr.org/listinfo.cgi/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org<br>HPSDR web page: http://openhpsdr.org<br>Archives: http://lists.openhpsdr.org/pipermail/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org/<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>