[digitalradio] USB Rig Control Interface
All: Does anyone know of a cheap USB rig control interface for Icom? Westmountain Radio makes the Rigtalk http://www.westmountainradio.com/RIGtalk.htm but it seems a bit pricy at $60 bucks... Tony KT2Q
RE: [digitalradio] USB Rig Control Interface
Tony, Here is one that might meet your need. HYPERLINK http://home.att.net/~n8st/rigcontrol.htmlhttp://home.att.net/~n8st/rigcont rol.html He has sound card interfaces as well. HYPERLINK http://home.att.net/~n8st/DDI-index.htmlhttp://home.att.net/~n8st/DDI-inde x.html Bob KA5KXT _ From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 2:19 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: [digitalradio] USB Rig Control Interface All: Does anyone know of a cheap USB rig control interface for Icom? Westmountain Radio makes the Rigtalk HYPERLINK http://www.westmountainradio.com/RIGtalk.htmhttp://www.westmoun-tainradio. -com/RIGtalk.-htm but it seems a bit pricy at $60 bucks... Tony KT2Q No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.5/812 - Release Date: 5/19/2007 1:52 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.5/812 - Release Date: 5/19/2007 1:52 PM
Re: [digitalradio] USB Rig Control Interface
Check the IC-7000 group messages, folks there have been talking about a radio shack scanner cable that works. They have/had two models; a serial version that was on close out for $5.00, and its usb replacement for less than $30.00 (I think). Anyway, there are several threads there with the exact parts numbers (apparently the closeout one's part number is not in the computers anymore, you have to know what you're looking for, and find it on the shelf yourself (typical RS customer service these days... thanks but I've already got a cell phone, and no I don't need any batteries)). 73, Erik N7HMS IRLP Node 3804 445.975 Simp PL103.5 Emails sent directly to this address instead of going through a yahoo group are automatically processed as junk mail, so I never see them. If you want to email me directly, try 'mycall' at 12bars dot com, thanks. Tony wrote: All: Does anyone know of a cheap USB rig control interface for Icom? Westmountain Radio makes the Rigtalk http://www.westmountainradio.com/RIGtalk.htm but it seems a bit pricy at $60 bucks... Tony KT2Q Announce your digital presence via our Interactive Sked Page at http://www.obriensweb.com/drsked/drsked.php Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [digitalradio] USB Rig Control Interface
The West Mountain interface, like most things they sell, tend to be some expensive but it is such a convenient form factor and eliminates the typical USB to COM serial adapter. Time Wave has a similar design at a similar price. I have made a basic discrete transistor interface that you often see recommended but this requires a USB to COM adapter. The old Radio Shack product was overpriced at $40. The current USB to COM serial adapter at $28 seems very similar in appearance and description to the one that most everyone else sells for $15. Note: If you buy the blue no-name USB to serial adapter from New Egg/Donner, etc. You will not need to use the driver disk. In fact, it will kick the disk drawer open if you attempt to use it. Instead, Vista has out of the box built in drivers and is plug and play. Donner notes that one of their customers indicated it worked with Vista. That was likely from my comments to Mrs. D a few weeks ago. Now if only Vista would not crash from running DX Lab! If only Linux had the drivers to work well with my Samsung 22 monitor, I would either dump Vista on my new HP AMD Athlon computer or maybe run it dual boot for a while. Meanwhile I have my old emachines back on running XP and had to dump Linux since it never could work with the widescreen. Frustrating to have two OS's that just can not quite make it compared to XP. QST had a very interesting article recently that showed how easy it was to make an interface directly from USB to CI-V. The only components that are available for this are SMT form factor so that does make it more difficult to work with. I wonder if the West Mountain product is close to this design, if not exactly the same? 73, Rick, KV9U Tony wrote: All: Does anyone know of a cheap USB rig control interface for Icom? Westmountain Radio makes the Rigtalk http://www.westmountainradio.com/RIGtalk.htm but it seems a bit pricy at $60 bucks... Tony KT2Q
