[WT-support] Special Initialization strings for radios (andwinkey)?

[Ed - GW3SQX]

Recent posts from Mario Lorenz and Bob Wilson have written:

>
>Does Win-Test have, by chance, in some .ini file or elsewhere thats
>non-obvious, a way to send special initialization command strings to
>Radios, or WinKey ?
>
>Unfortunately no.  The closest thing appears to be the
>$MK2R= message variable described here, but it cannot be >used for this
>purpose.
>
>Wouldn't it be great if Win-Test could support three more message
>variables:
>
 > $WK=  (send command text to WinKey)
 > $RIG1=  (send radio-specific command text to Rig 1)
 >$RIG2=  (send radio-specific command text to Rig 2)
>
>Maybe "0xHH" could be used to send hex (binary) bytes if required by the
>protocol.
>
>Then we could all experiment to figure out methods to generate unsupported
>radio-specific commands such as >"Enable RTS and DTR for PTT and CWKEY",
>"Clear RIT", "Set VFO A to VFO B's frequency", "Enter Dual >Receive" for
>all of our individual radios, so that Laurent and Olivier don't have to do
>all the hard work >themselves to figure this out.  We could share command
>strings here on this Reflector, and in the Wiki.


A way of doing this was suggested some time ago.  See below.

73,

Ed, GW3SQX

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Olivier F5MZN olecam at f5mzn.org
Mon Sep 26 21:54:56 CEST 2005
>
>
>> there is not such a function / variable. The main issue being
>> that some TRX don't have such a command in their CAT set
>
>
>
> An extension to this request, which would be universally useful, is to
> provide a general command that can "talk" to the transceiver.  For
> example,
> using the Kenwood-style interface:
>
> &FA00007010000;
>
> would set VFO A frequency to 7.01MHz,

That is an excellent idea! Thanks for suggestion Ed!

73,
-- 
Olivier / f5mzn