[WT-support] Band Data - switching bands

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

See Options | Frequency Offsets
<http://docs.win-test.com/wiki/Menu:Options#Frequency_Offsets>, though
there is no way to dynamically change these with a LUA Script.

I suggest using a transceiver or transverter that is capable of returning
the correct frequency to Win-Test via serial port communication, so that
Win-Test can read the frequency directly, perhaps using OmniRig and a
custom .ini file for your transverter.

I don't understand why AutoHotkey is required, and I recommend that you
avoid it.  Between DEFINEKEYS and LUA scripts, you should be able to send
anything you want to any serial port using any keystroke combination.

See this post
<http://lists.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2016-December/085394.html> for a
sample script to read or write to a serial port directly, though using
OmniRig to control the transverter frequency should be much easier.

You can use wtRadio:SetFreq() in a LUA script to change the frequency of
the transverter, assuming you get it to work with OmniRig.

Yes, almost all USB-to-LPT adapters will not work, but you might have luck
with this one:

https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/basteln/PC/USB2LPT/

73,
Bob, N6TV

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Alexander Kurpiers <a.kurpiers at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to tightly couple our set of microwave transverters to the
> band setting in Win-Test. The transverters (2320/3400/5760MHz) are all
> connected to the same 146MHz radio (IC7400). Background: with several
> transverters on same TRX you accidentally log a QSO on the wrong
> microwave band... and - yes - sometimes you can be pretty busy even on
> microwave...
>
> The preferred way would be to do the band switching on the transverter
> side and somehow let Win-Test know which band is selected, but so far I
> have no idea how this could be done. The radio frequency does not help
> (it is 146MHz in all three cases). I know how to inject keyboard codes
> into Win-Test using AutoHotkey, but even then I would not know how to
> switch to a specific band from the keyboard either (you can enter the
> frequency in the call sign field, but to do that "automatically", you
> would have to clear this field first, and I do not dare to send the
> "F11", because some OP may have forgotten to press "enter" on the
> previous QSO before switching to another band...).
>
> Is there some LUA magic?
>
> The alternative is the band data available on the parallel port
> http://docs.win-test.com/wiki/Interfaces#Band_Data
> But first: as modern PCs do not have parallel ports anymore, it is not
> clear if the USB-LPT ports would work and second: bands >432MHz are not
> signalled (although the change in the software would probably be easy
> enough). But given the old interface, not clear if a good way to do it...
>
> Last option: Win-Test sends out UDP broadcasts with the current
> frequency. I know that there is a solution based on Raspberry Pi to
> monitor and switch the transverters accordingly.
> Myself, I was thinking of using an old AVR-NET-IO
> (http://www.pollin.de/shop/dt/MTQ5OTgxOTk-/Bauelemente_Baute
> ile/Bausaetze_Module/Bausaetze/Bausatz_AVR_NET_IO.html)
> - because I don't know what to do with it anyway ;-)
>
> 73' Alexander DL8AAU (DR9A)
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