Hi Mike,
sure, you can add the TUNER function for the FT-991, it should really be
there already. Easy to add. It needs to be added to yaesu/newcat.c in
newcat_{get,set}_func() as several Yaesu rigs that use them have the
same ATU CAT commands. Once that's done a trawl through the Yaesu CAT
manuals to find the rigs that have AC000 and AC001 is necessary to add
the function to them.
The tune facility is already there using the VFO option RIG_OP_TUNE,
there is no "tune off" the AC002 is a start command, i.e. equivalent to
a momentary action switch. Why do you think anything else is needed for
that?
73
Bill
G4WJS.
On 13/01/2019 16:07, Black Michael via wsjt-devel wrote:
I can add that capability. But I think we need both ATU On/Off and
Tune On/Off
So maybe
TUNE 0/1
ATU 0/1
or
TUNE 0/1
TUNER 0/1
One being a verb and one being a noun. So TUNE actually starts tuning
and TUNER turns the automatic on/off
Opinions?
de Mike W9MDB
On Sunday, January 13, 2019, 7:24:21 AM CST, Bill Somerville
<g4...@classdesign.com> wrote:
On 13/01/2019 13:08, DG2YCB, Uwe wrote:
Hi Bill,
I do not use the hamlib rigctl. Perhaps I should try it that way. But
switching band via command line seems to be not really more elegant
than just switching band directly at the FT-991 . Anyway, I fully
agree, that this topic has only low priority in comparison with
others. In my case having such an option would simply be quite useful.
Just FYI see below FT-991’s CAT commands for ATU control: “AC000”
means ATU off, “AC001” means ATU on, and “AC002” means start tuning
(which is not relevant here). Adding “AC000;” or “AC001;” to the CAT
commands for band or frequency change works quite well with my FT-991
for the purpose of switching the ATU on or off.
Hi Uwe,
you have misunderstood my suggestion. Hamlib rigctld is a rig control
server, it allows multiple applications to access the same rig. What I
was suggesting is that you can use rigctld to connect to your rig and
then have WSJT-X connect to rigctld. WSJT-X will do rig control as
before, the difference is that another application can now be used to
send other rig control instructions to the rig as well. That other
application could be the Hamlib rigctl command line tool that could
tell your rig to enable or disable its ATU. The only part of this that
is missing is that currently Hamlib only knows how to send the AC002
command to an FT-991 but it can be easily enhanced to also send ATU
on/off commands (AC001/AC002). The command would look like:
rigctrl -m2 U TUNER 1
to turn on the ATU and:
rigctl -m2 U TUNER 0
to turn off the ATU.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
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