[WT-support] SO2R on 2 networked computers

[Tom W8JI]

I will add some more issues into a software only interlock 
solutions related
to need is some setup to have some kind
of PTT key sequence were u need to know that ur devices ( 
SO2R antenna
sharing, Split Powers, Beverage Switch )
had properly switch, before the 2d radio start to 
transmit.>>>


Years ago I designed something like that for Ameritron, the 
RCS-12 control head. That control head has a band decoder 
and prevents the wrong antenna on the wrong band, locks out 
the amplifier when transmitting if an antenna is being 
changed, and also prevents an antenna change while 
transmitting. No bad relays or arcing band switches or 
capacitors when using them.

I added the RCS-12 to my station for all antennas because 
operators will always, sooner or later, pick the wrong 
antennas or change antennas or directions of antennas while 
transmitting.

I am working on an interface now to alert operators they 
have sat on one antenna in one direction too long, or have 
selected a bad or mismatched combination of antennas.

<<<Probable one solution that can be a smart solution for 
both needs, is to
allow the software to know exactly when the PTT
lines are ready simply using the DCD of a COM port, ( the CW 
one ? ) . In
this way the Software knows what to do
in the right time and can sync the networked radios, in any 
mode.>>>

Good idea if someone will do it.

Better than the way I do it now.

73 Tom