[WT-support] TRX Control for FT990

[Franta Bendl]

Hi Gavin,

tnx for your suggestion. Unfortunately I found in internet that YAESU stopped 
the support with new PROMs for older FT990 about 18 months ago. My local 
YAESU-support has no knowledge about any problems with PROMs ... :-(

See you in the next contest
73 de Franta/DJ0ZY


On Tuesday 11 October 2005 08:47, Gavin Taylor GM0GAV wrote:
> Franta,
>
> this is a known issue with the FT-990. Some years ago when I had a FT-990 I
> could not get it to work with CT or my regular logging program. The answer
> was to send the CPU card to Yaesu UK who upgraded it to V1.3 free of
> charge.
>
> It worked perfectly after the upgrade.
>
> 73 Gavin
> GM0GAV
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Olivier F5MZN" <olecam at f5mzn.org>
> To: <support at win-test.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [WT-support] TRX Control for FT990
>
> > Franta Bendl wrote:
> > > Hi Olivier,
> > >
> > > tnx for you answer.
> > >
> > > I wrote today afternoon a small programm (java) to control the TRX with
> > > restricted set of commands (set vfo/qrg/mode/filter) and to show the
> > > set data. There is no problem at all. Unfortunately I don't know the
> > > logic,
>
> how
>
> > > WT makes it. Can you send me this peace of your code to check and to
>
> compare
>
> > > it on my site. I can send you my programm if you are interested.
> >
> > Sorry I cannot read Java :(
> >
> > I suggest to download and install a serial sniffer, that way you will be
> > able to understand how WT communicates with the radio. You can get
> > PortMon on sysinternals.com for free:
> > http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Portmon.html
> >
> > BTW, I'm afraid that first version of the protocol of the FT-990 is
> > quite identical to the first FT-1000D one: all the needed informations
> > are not available (or the amount of data to transfert is too important)
> > and it is why they are not supported. Anyway, I wonder if there is
> > another popular logging software which does support your FT-990.
> >
> > 73,
> > --
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