Controlling the Kenwood TS-450SAT through a Transceiver Interface: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen
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| + | Being a Linux affiliate, I decided to try and steer my transceiver with Linux programs, notably and firstly with hamlib and secondly with all the applications basing on it. What is hamlib? Hamlib is a library that provides a consolidated interface to all sorts of transceivers. This leads to the comfortable situation that programmers for logging and other software won't need to think about transceiver control any more, but they can just link their software against the hamlib library and support over 1000 transceiver types at once. | ||
Version vom 28. Juni 2008, 23:34 Uhr
The Kenwood TS-450SAT (no matter if with a Antenna Tuner or not, so also the TS-450S variant) both have a serial connector. It is located at the left side of the transceiver.
I decided to purchase the BX-120 interface from the German HAM magazine "Funkamateur", because
- it is a USB device
- it is supported by Linux
- it has a galvanic separation between the TRX and the computer circuitry
- it can control audio and the serial data link plus the key in a single box
- it can be used with a great number of transceivers
- there's a good documentation that comes with it
In short, it fulfilled all my requirements.
Being a Linux affiliate, I decided to try and steer my transceiver with Linux programs, notably and firstly with hamlib and secondly with all the applications basing on it. What is hamlib? Hamlib is a library that provides a consolidated interface to all sorts of transceivers. This leads to the comfortable situation that programmers for logging and other software won't need to think about transceiver control any more, but they can just link their software against the hamlib library and support over 1000 transceiver types at once.
