Hi John, If you are using PC-ALE 1.062H ( the latest build being #5) I can not imagine why you are having any issues with your TS-480SAT if the CAT control of radio works otherwise with any other software.
All you need to do is select either KENWOOD or if using CTS/RTS handshaking, KENWOOD_HS to begin with. If your radio is setup to use the long standing 4800 baud for Kenwood radios for backward compatibility with older software tools, then that is all you need to do aside from selecting the com port for Radio CAT and your PTT interface choice. If you are using higher then 4800 baud, then you need to click the "Radio Port" button next to the Radio Type selection and configure for the RS-232 port parameters that you are using. Upon proper setup, shutdown and restart PC-ALE, if should come up and tell what Kenwood model you are using from the radio ID, if for some reason it can't, it will state UNKNOWN and treat the radio as the newest Kenwood model the software knows about, which just happens to be the TS-480. MARS-ALE is a based on PC-ALE to meet the needs of MARS operations and differs from PC-ALE in many ways. /s/ Steve, N2CKH At 01:05 PM 12/11/2007, you wrote: > >I am not a fan of PCALE , for a couple of reasons, not the least of >which, given that I am reasonably bright, not being able to get it >running with my TS480SAT. From what I can see so far, it scans >really well , but have no idea of how well it would pass messages. >Is there two different versions of PCALE, one that we find on the >ham bands and one used for MARS operations? And what are the differences?
