Which Kenwood rigs with S-Meter caps?

Hi, I'm new to this list and looking for some information.

Where can I find a list of Kenwood rig capabilities and CAT commands?

I need to know which rigs can return a S-Meter value and the required 
data format. My SDR application is mimicing a Kenwood rig, at present 
the TS-50S, but I cannot get the S-Meter capability to work. This is for 
use with the Dream DRM application that has Hamlib functionality.

I do get the CAT cmd 'SM;' in my application and answer that with 
'SM00015;' which should show an S9 reading on the S-Meter in Dream, but 
its not happening! Perhaps the answer data format is wrong?

I can change frequency OK but would also like Dream to read the S-Meter 
with the 300 msec timer. I am using vCOM as the virtual COM connection 
between the two applications.

Can anyone suggest what could be the problem here?

Thanks, Helmut VK4STR

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Which Kenwood rigs with S-Meter caps?

Hi, I'm new to this list and looking for some information.

Where can I find a list of Kenwood rig capabilities and CAT commands?

I need to know which rigs can return a S-Meter value and the required 
data format. My SDR application is mimicing a Kenwood rig, at present 
the TS-50S, but I cannot get the S-Meter capability to work. This is for 
use with the Dream DRM application that has Hamlib functionality.

I do get the CAT cmd 'SM;' in my application and answer that with 
'SM00015;' which should show an S9 reading on the S-Meter in Dream, but 
its not happening! Perhaps the answer data format is wrong?

I can change frequency OK but would also like Dream to read the S-Meter 
with the 300 msec timer. I am using vCOM as the virtual COM connection 
between the two applications.

Can anyone suggest what could be the problem here?

Thanks, Helmut VK4STR

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Hamlib for Kenwoods 790 and 850.

Hello to all,

this is my first post to hamlib.

I have kenwoods 790 and 850, use TLF, GMFSK, XLOG and GRIG2. To have 
better result with these programs I have selected kenwood 811, with 
right rigs programs do not work fine.

Is it my bad configuration or problems with software???

Best 73s to all.

CT1DRB
David Quental

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Re: Which Kenwood rigs with S-Meter caps?

Helmut Strickner wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to this list and looking for some information.

Welcome there!

> Where can I find a list of Kenwood rig capabilities and CAT commands?

The CAT commands are generally found in the user manual.
Not all the rig capabilities are remote controlable, but Kenwood
protocol is not that bad in that regard.

> I need to know which rigs can return a S-Meter value and the required 
> data format. My SDR application is mimicing a Kenwood rig, at present 
> the TS-50S, but I cannot get the S-Meter capability to work. This is for 
> use with the Dream DRM application that has Hamlib functionality.

Pretty much all Kenwood rigs can return a S-Meter value. The format
slightly changes among regular and TH models.

> I do get the CAT cmd 'SM;' in my application and answer that with 
> 'SM00015;' which should show an S9 reading on the S-Meter in Dream, but 
> its not happening! Perhaps the answer data format is wrong?

Have a look at the file kenwood/kenwood.c in Hamlib. You'll find the
'SM;' parsing in function kenwood_get_level, case RIG_LEVEL_STRENGTH.
The SM; answer has be 7 characters in length (including the semi-colon),
and parsing value parsing starts at offset +2. In your example,
the answer is 8 chars long, which is probably the problem.

> I can change frequency OK but would also like Dream to read the S-Meter 

Re: Hamlib for Kenwoods 790 and 850.

Hi David,

David Quental wrote:
> Hello to all,
> 
> this is my first post to hamlib.
> 
> I have kenwoods 790 and 850, use TLF, GMFSK, XLOG and GRIG2. To have 
> better result with these programs I have selected kenwood 811, with 
> right rigs programs do not work fine.
> 
> Is it my bad configuration or problems with software???

I don't know yet. What version of Hamlib are you using? Which distribution?
"What" does not work fine with the 790 and 850 backends ?
Can you please provide us with some 'rigctl -vvvvvv' traces ?

Cheers,
--

-- 
Stephane - F8CFE

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Re: Hamlib for Kenwoods 790 and 850.

Hi Stephane,

tks for your email.
> Hi David,
>
> David Quental wrote:
>   
>> Hello to all,
>>
>> this is my first post to hamlib.
>>
>> I have kenwoods 790 and 850, use TLF, GMFSK, XLOG and GRIG2. To have 
>> better result with these programs I have selected kenwood 811, with 
>> right rigs programs do not work fine.
>>
>> Is it my bad configuration or problems with software???
>>     
>
> I don't know yet. What version of Hamlib are you using? Which distribution?
> "What" does not work fine with the 790 and 850 backends ?
>   
I am using cvs version, but happened also with version 1.2.4 too. When I 
wrote does not work fine it means that in all programs, when I choose 
850 or 790, they do not work fine, i.e. during last cw contests I had 
problems to qsy freq with TLF, so I choose ts-811, programs freeze with 
850 or 790 and with 811 they work fine.
> Can you please provide us with some 'rigctl -vvvvvv' traces ?
>
>   
Yes, no problem:

Setting baud-rate using Perl bindings?

Some time ago, during a shack visit, I had access to a TS-930 
retro-fitted  with digital boards. These rigs used to be contester's 
war-horses, not that long ago, so I decided to have a play with the 
'untested' Hamlib back-end.

Rig control worked well using rigctl. But my Perl logger 
(http://zl2arn.ath.cx/zl2bsj/qle-0.0.3.tar.gz) didn't like it, and I 
suspect the default baud rate on the CAT interface may have been 
wrong.

My question is: how does one set a particular baud-rate using the Perl 
application interface? I should add that the default has always 
worked well for me with rigs like the FT1000MP, MKV and IC725, IC746 
etc.

Wilbert, ZL2BSJ

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Re: Hamlib for Kenwoods 790 and 850.

Hello Stephane Fillod,

forgot to say that I am using SuSE 10.0, sorry, did not read fine.
> Hi David,
>
> David Quental wrote:
>   
>> Hello to all,
>>
>> this is my first post to hamlib.
>>
>> I have kenwoods 790 and 850, use TLF, GMFSK, XLOG and GRIG2. To have 
>> better result with these programs I have selected kenwood 811, with 
>> right rigs programs do not work fine.
>>
>> Is it my bad configuration or problems with software???
>>     
>
> I don't know yet. What version of Hamlib are you using? Which distribution?
> "What" does not work fine with the 790 and 850 backends ?
> Can you please provide us with some 'rigctl -vvvvvv' traces ?
>
> Cheers,
>   

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