[Dx4win] FT-2000 with DMU-2000

[Bill Walker]

Rien:

I have a FT-2000D and the DMU 2000 also.  I also use DX4WIN.

For rotor control I decided not to use the DMU 2000, but rather the  
Rotor control interface built into DX4WIN. This is because the  
control is all automatic -- once the call is entered into DX4WIN's  
QSO window, manually or by grabbing a spot, the short path direction  
is computed and available to the rotor.  Pushing F11 starts the rotor  
in motion to the new direction.

I use a G800SDX, but I believe your G1000DXC is similar. The rotor  
must have an interface card added to control it through a RS232  
serial port - i.e., DX4WIN.  Yaesu makes such a device, but it is  
very expensive.  I used a card from a group called IDIOM Press and it  
works perfectly.  I just looked them up on their web site ( http:// 
www.idiompress.com ) and they have a card that works with the G1000DXC.

Another approach is to wire the rotor directly to the DMU-2000 and  
drive it from the rig.  You need to know the pinouts of the connector  
located inside the control box of the rotor and then wire a cable  
that connects them directly to the DMU-2000.  For more help on this  
alternative, try the FT-2000 Group on Yahoo.  They have discussed it  
there.

I am not sure about your second question.  The rig interface for the  
FT-2000 is evidently a work-in-progress and does not always give  
correct results when grabbing a "split frequency" spot.  Maybe that  
is the problem.  I am sorry I don't know more about this.

Good Luck,


Bill
W3QB

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On Oct 5, 2007, at 9:53 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:

> Can someone please help him?
>
>
> Subject: 	Rig Driver
> Date: 	Fri, 5 Oct 2007 18:06:25 +0200
> From: 	Rien <r1aarden at home.nl>
> To: 	<jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
>
>
>
> I using the FT-2000 of Yaesu with the DMU-2000  with in that the rotor
> interface to control mine rotor G1000DXC
>
> Is it possible to control this with DX4WIN ?
>
> And Also if I get a spot example PA3EWP on 14.205 I double click on  
> the
> spot and the TRX go to freq 14.205 only the Mode is always CW
>
> I change in preference but it will not work correctly  with the mode
>
> I try this with Hamradio deluxe and everything works good  so maybe is
> it a solution to make a link DX4Win with Hamradio deluxe ?
>
>  DX4win is just a great logging program I make just the step after 7
> years from Swisslog to DX4WIN.
>
> And it is just Great !
>
> And this little thinks that not work  as mode and rotor maybe it is  
> just
> only mine problem or just not have the good parameters for this Rig ??
>
> I have also  mail ON4AOI  Guy  with this little thing
>
> Hope to hear as son as is possible of you
>
>
>
>
>
> Rien, PA7RA
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