Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ky2d-2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!ky2d-2!ai2q From: ai2q@ky2d-2.UUCP (Alex) Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Subject: Re: More HF radio questions Message-ID: <51@ky2d-2.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 12:29:46 EST Article-I.D.: ky2d-2.51 Posted: Sat Nov 9 12:29:46 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 09:25:11 EST References: <1091@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: KY2D-2 Packet Radio Gateway, Little Silver, NJ Lines: 47 > Some time ago I posted a question to get some help in choosing an HF rig. > I received quite a lot of negative feedback about Icom product quality > (but very little on performance!). Of course, if the rig spends half of its > life in repair shop, super performance won't make you happy... > > Nevertheless, I have one more question on the Icom IC-735: it is supposed to > have a 1200 Bd serial port. The brochure doesn't tell what you can do with it; > one would assume that you can at least control the frequency, maybe some > other operating parameters via it. > > I then asked the local Icom dealer, and he didn't know. Then I asked Icom > European HQ, and the didn't know either. WHO KNOWS????? Are there any IC-735 > owners here? Have you ever really used the serial port? Can anyone call Icom > America to find out? > > Having received so much negative feedback on Icom, I started reconsidering > a Yaesu FT-757GX. Any comments on its performance? *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Aside from the pros and cons of japanese-made rigs (I have a Ten Tec Argonaut and an old pair of heathkit Twins - the SB401/SB303), the inclusion of aserial I/O port allows control of the rig from a remote. A recent article in QST Magazine outlined a short BASIC program for doing this with the new Yaesu FT757GX xcvr. (I've actually been toying with acquiring one of these so I could rig it up with my Model 100 lap-portable). The feature was written by Kjell Strom, SM6CPI and appears on page 38 of the October 1985 isse. The article also references the following publicat- ions: QST, July 1984, p.34, Low Cost Computer Control for the ICOM IC-720; QST, August 1982, p.19, control of an ICOM IC-701; QST, May 1981, p. 30, re IC-701; The 1985 ARRL Handbook for The Radio Amateur, 62nd Edition, C. Hutchinson (ed), ppgs. 19-24, Fig. 26; and Compute! Magazne, August 1982, J. Butterfield and J. Law, VIC Communications: the RS-232 Interface, p. 99. So there! I hope this is of interest and I would be quite interested in learning how others are making out with similar systems of control. My ideal system would allow the MiniMUF program to pre-set the rig at the appointed hour for either AMTOR or packet transmissions with automated message store/forward nodes! I'd also like to find out if anyone has experienced any problems/solutions with emi/rfi while using these rigs under program control. Vy 73, Alex AI2Q, Freeport, Long Island, New York >>AR>>