[WT-support] Question about moving Bandmap center frequency

[Craig Johnson, AA0ZZ]

Thanks much for your help, Bob.

 

My radio is a Kenwood TS-940S.  I have an Elecraft K2 also and it does have rig control but it’s only 15 watts so I don’t like to use it for anything other than QRP contests. 100 watts from the TS-940S is at least better.

  

Thanks for your suggestions about configuring a radio even though I won’t be using it.  That’s EXACTLY what I was looking for.   Makes sense.  Unfortunately I don’t have any COM ports other than the USB virtual COM port 3 that I have the WinKeyer connected to.  I will find a way to configure another virtual COM port and then use it for the virtual radio as you suggested.  

 

Thanks!

 

-Craig, AA0ZZ

 

 

From: rawilson at gmail.com [mailto:rawilson at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Bob Wilson, N6TV
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 11:41 PM
To: Win-Test Reflector; aa0zz at cbjohn.com
Subject: Re: [WT-support] Question about moving Bandmap center frequency

 

First, what type of radio do you have?  You should be able to get rig control working unless it is a very old radio with no rig control interface.

 

The trick to make the band map scroll when you have no radio connected is to pretend that you do have a radio connected to some available COM port.  Many PCs have at least one COM port active, for obscure devices such as "COM3:  Intel Active Management Technology - SOL 3" (see what's there in Windows Device Manager).

 

In this case you could Select COM 3 as Radio 1, and pick a radio type such as Icom with "CI-V Transceive" selected, so there is no polling. 

 

Then, when you type a frequency like 28100 and press Enter, the band map will scroll to that point.

 

Better yet, try clicking the List tab at the bottom of the band map, then you can sort the list of spots in many different ways besides frequency, and scroll through them.  Right Click on the band map and follow the prompts.  Then you really don't care where the "center" cursor is.

 

73,

Bob, N6TV

 

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Craig Johnson, AA0ZZ <aa0zz at cbjohn.com> wrote:

Hi,

I’m new to Win-Test (4.190) and trying to use the bandmap without radio control.  I can get the bandmap populated via a telnet connection but the bandmap pointer is always to 000 in the center (as in 28000).  The bandmap would still be useful to me, even without radio control, if I could just move the center and then expand.  I can enter a new frequency such as 28100 in the log entry field and see it appear for Radio 1 but the bandmap center frequency does not change from 000.  Any help?

Thanks,

-Craig, AA0ZZ  

 

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