Lee, I am not 100% sure if your setup is permanent or requires re-assigning antenna and relay ports as you change bands between the 2 RXs.
Let me describe the following set up and see how we can make it work with what we have: Imagine an antenna farm that is switched in the field using a 2 x 10 SO2R antenna switch. There are only 2 coax cables going into the shack and each coax can be connected to any antenna from 160 to 10 m. Each coax goes into its own amplifier, which in turn need its own amp key line. What I want is VFO A to always trigger the first amplifier and VFO B to trigger the second amplifier, regardless of what VFO A's TX frequency and VFO B's TX frequency. And of course I do not want to manually re-assign antenna and relay ports when changing bands on VFO A or B. The important point is that I need to be able to TX on either VFO at any given time. Imagine running on VFO A and S&P-ing on VFO B, on 2 different bands. The logger does all the TX VFO focus switch behind the scenes for me. So, can we do this with what we currently have available to us? It appears that the logger can in fact re-program the antenna selection on the fly using the set of available CAT commands. But this is extremely inefficient as the logger will have to send all the CAT commands just to turn the TX on, before even sending the actual contest message. It is much better to extend the existing PowerSDR software with a SO2R mode where antenna and relay outputs are per VFO rather than band. Rudy N2WQ --- On Wed, 12/9/09, Lee A Crocker <lee_croc...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Lee A Crocker <lee_croc...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Flexradio] More Flex in contesting To: "Flexradio" <FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz> Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 11:21 PM I wrote a blog entry on how my station is set up for SO2R like operation. I don't run much contesting but I do run on 2 bands for DXing quite often which is the equivalent It's still a work in progress and there are a few refinements that I would like to see but this article gives a pretty good idea what a stock F5K plus RX2 can do http://w9oy-sdr.blogspot.com/2009/12/so2r.html 73 W9OY _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to r_baka...@yahoo.com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
