Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Icom ICF Files

2010-08-19 Thread Dan Smith
) but that the software can read them both. It's also possible that they truly use the same memory format entirely, although I doubt it. -- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS Please TRIM your replies or set your email program not to include the original message in reply

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Icom ICF Files

2010-08-19 Thread Dan Smith
Chirp will not read my id-80 icf file, it reports it's an unsupported radio. Can you send me an ID-80 ICF file? If you have a matching ID-880 ICF file to go with it, that would be helpful. -- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Icom ICF Files

2010-08-19 Thread Dan Smith
of debug to the next version so that someone with the actual radio can log and send me that part of the exchange. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Fooling the GPS firmware in an IC2820 to display position data without a GPS sig

2010-02-19 Thread Dan Smith
to think it had a (very boring) GPS connected to it. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] install d-rats on centos server

2010-02-12 Thread Dan Smith
to help you with the details: http://www.d-rats.com/mailing-list There are pre-built packages available for F11, F12 and recent Debian-based systems, but there aren't enough users of EL5 as a desktop system at the moment to justify building packages regularly. Thanks! -- Dan Smith dsmith

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Internet Via ID-800H

2009-11-04 Thread Dan Smith
to run PacLink and (b) doesn't let each RF user access their own WinLink address. It sounds like this is what you're looking for, right Debbie? Maybe I should put some code where my mouth is, eh? -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Internet Via ID-800H

2009-11-03 Thread Dan Smith
) automatically (it's the default, of course). Then you can just prune bits from there until it's clean and then process the queue manually. It's all still quite a bit in flux at the moment, but we're closing in on some real functionality. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Cable for ic91 a/d

2009-10-20 Thread Dan Smith
: http://cobalt.n5zpr.com/Media/icom_cables.pdf -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] d rats

2009-06-12 Thread Dan Smith
up before I disappear this afternoon, I'll be glad to chat with you :) -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] d rats

2009-06-11 Thread Dan Smith
type a chat message, then you may want need to turn on the Auto Data TX in the radio. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] CHIRP and the ID-880H ?

2009-06-11 Thread Dan Smith
I'm thinking of getting an ID-880H. I was wondering if CHIRP ( http://chirp.danplanet.com/wiki/ ) works with the ID-880H? Not just yet, but I have every intention of adding support as soon as possible. Still need to get my hands on one for a week or so :) -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Radio Control Software Recommendations Sought

2009-06-10 Thread Dan Smith
You're right. A limited control capability *is* in the ID-1, the IC-91AD, and the IC-92AD, and presumably the 80? Don't know on that last one... Nope, no rig control on the ID-80. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Radio Control Software Recommendations Sought

2009-06-09 Thread Dan Smith
describe what the new 80 and 880 do or don't do, but haven't seen any rig control documentation on those rigs, either. They are clone-mode radios, which means when you attempt to read the memory out, the radio stops being a radio, dumps its entire memory over the serial port and reboots. -- Dan Smith

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Compression/encoding on data-only transmissions

2009-05-13 Thread Dan Smith
. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Compression/encoding on data-only transmissions

2009-05-13 Thread Dan Smith
The DEFAULT_BANNED list is what I currently exclude. YAES. :-) (Yet another encoding scheme.) Yawn. :-) YAESTDSBT - Yet another encoding scheme that doesn't support binary transfers. Double Yawn :) -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ID-800H Questions - Unable to run Chirp properly

2009-04-29 Thread Dan Smith
clone image at some point. You might consider joining the CHIRP mailing list (as linked from the main CHIRP page) for more discussion, help, and information about beta versions with more features. Good luck! -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] CHIRP Open Cloning Software

2009-04-27 Thread Dan Smith
in the next week or so. Thanks Steve! -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] Moving IC91 files to IC92

2008-10-05 Thread Dan Smith
thing. Several people have reported success moving things between a 92 and a 2820. I haven't had much time recently to do a lot of heavy work on it, but I hope the winter months will help with that :) -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] ID800 data transmission.

2008-09-28 Thread Dan Smith
the computer but I cannot key the radio. I set up the DV-pt to DV-at and set up the proper speed to 9600. Do you have your squelch set high enough? If the BUSY light is lit on the front panel, the radio won't go into (data) transmit mode. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] D-RATS Problem

2008-09-03 Thread Dan Smith
of like the old packet BBS network.) I agree, but I know nothing about the repeater architecture (yet). Is there any way to send slow data to the repeater itself, instead of just through it? -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: D-RATS Problem

2008-09-03 Thread Dan Smith
. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

[dstar_digital] A new list dedicated to D-RATS discussion

2008-09-03 Thread Dan Smith
versions so more people can help with testing. Thanks! -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] D-RATS Problem

2008-09-02 Thread Dan Smith
running into the problem I mentioned above. Some confirmation with 0.2.3 would be really helpful, as I can't easily test that myself. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] D-RATS Problem

2008-09-02 Thread Dan Smith
a voice repeater for other people. As the logic progresses, it should be easier to determine when the magic give up point is, but right now, it's relatively pessimistic. I'm sure your voice users will appreciate that :) -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] D-STAR Logo

2008-08-29 Thread Dan Smith
appears to have the authority to grant such usage is an extremely good idea. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-24 Thread Dan Smith
. An upload should work fine. Thanks! -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-24 Thread Dan Smith
isn't a full description of a memory channel. Thanks for the feedback. I should be ready to post an 0.1.3 soon with all the fixes we've worked out here, as well as some extra stuff like support for the A band on the handhelds, etc. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-23 Thread Dan Smith
? In the meantime, I'll try doing a clone of my 2820 through the front data port and see what I get :) -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-23 Thread Dan Smith
Not a problem. If I kow what I am doing. Okay, I'll see about putting in something to do that in the next post and we can go from there. I also realized that I know someone locally that as one each of a V82 and U82, so I might be able to borrow one for a while. -- Dan Smith dsmith

Re: [dstar_digital] CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-22 Thread Dan Smith
:11:13:1a:0:12:f:17:16:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 Which you should be able to pass to stty to set yours the same. I completely forgot, but I haven't rebooted my system since I started this, and I did have to tweak some of the serial parameters to get it to behave correctly. -- Dan Smith

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-22 Thread Dan Smith
the command-line utility with native windows widgets. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-22 Thread Dan Smith
lists allow me sort the massive amount of email I receive, but I understand that not everyone works that way. If we get to the point where it's warranted, I'll be happy to set something up. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-22 Thread Dan Smith
to be happy. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-22 Thread Dan Smith
data lead. The OPC-478? When did you get it? I'm wondering if there are a couple versions of this cable floating around. Thanks! -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-22 Thread Dan Smith
different ways to determine what mode it's in before it can talk to it. Having not decoded all of this, it's easiest to just make the human do a few steps for the time being. All of this can be worked out, but since each of the radios have quirks, I can't address them all at once :) -- Dan Smith dsmith

Re: [dstar_digital] CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-21 Thread Dan Smith
your normal data cable. If you have one of the others, you need the cable that interfaces with the speaker/clone jack. The ICOM cloning cable will work, or you can make your own. There are schematics available all over the place (and I'm sure people will chime in with their favorite). -- Dan

Re: [dstar_digital] CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-21 Thread Dan Smith
have an option to dump the data to CSV, but I'll gladly add it. It's the chirp.exe binary in the zip file. If you're comfortable running that from a command-line, it may work better for you with a screen reader. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-21 Thread Dan Smith
Are you using Python 2.5.2 for your compiling? The nature of Python is that it's not compiled in the conventional sense. But yes, it's using a Python 2.5.2 runtime -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-21 Thread Dan Smith
the python serial module. If you're on a Fedora/RedHat machine, you should be able to do: # yum install pyserial if you're on a Debian/Ubuntu machine, do: # apt-get install pyserial -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-21 Thread Dan Smith
for your radio out of the working directory and send it to me for analysis. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

Re: [dstar_digital] ID-800H Beeps

2008-05-23 Thread Dan Smith
You mentioned Xon/Xoff and I wondered how these signals back from the transceiver relate back to a program with no flow control selected. The application would just see the control values (XON and XOFF) as data coming from the radio. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Satoshi's UT-118 Interface ?

2008-05-09 Thread Dan Smith
My understanding is that, like last year, there will be a 3rd-party D-STAR applications booth across from or near the Icom D-STAR booth at Dayton. That's my understanding as well and I plan to be there :) -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KI4IFW

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: D-rats test

2008-05-06 Thread Dan Smith
. Agreed. Authentication may be added later, but would only be a trivial deterrent. Running an open repeater at any time other than when you're sitting at the control point is not a good idea. In short: my system is not open and I don't advocate the practice :) -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: GPS-A

2008-05-05 Thread Dan Smith
to rebroadcast the fix information from another station would be very helpful. -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KI4IFW