[Dx4win] control of a PW-1 amp using a ORion-2

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

On 3/26/2012 3:21 PM, Kostas Stamatis wrote:
> I believe it is relatively easy to make a homebrew interface to drive
> PW1 from an Ten Tec Orion ii. Orion ii (as i read in the manual) has
> band data in back side. I saw also that you can drive a relay for
> every band. So you can simply a voltage and some resistors to get the
> voltage you want for every band. PW-1 needs a pecific voltage in
> every band to remote connector to recognise in which band the rig is.

Unfortunately the majority of PW-1 amplifiers do not recognize the Band
Voltage used in the previous Icom amplifiers.  Until the most recent
production (starting approximately 2011), there was no connection
between the ACC jacks and the controller board *and* the controllers
lacked the circuitry necessary to decode the band voltage.  It was
only after Icom admitted problems with collisions and data corruption
on the CI-V bus when connecting both a logging program and PW-1 to a
single transceiver that they reintroduced Band Voltage as a means of
controlling band switching.

This lack of hardware capability in PW-1 was one of the reasons that
microHAM added auxiliary CI-V support first in the original microHAM
Band Decoder (around 2003) and later in microKEYER II, Digikeyer II,
Mk2R/Mk2R+ and Station Master.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 3/26/2012 3:21 PM, Kostas Stamatis wrote:
> I believe it is relatively easy to make a homebrew interface to drive PW1
> from an Ten Tec Orion ii. Orion ii (as i read in the manual) has band data
> in back side. I saw also that you can drive a relay for every band. So you
> can simply a voltage and some resistors to get the voltage you want for
> every band. PW-1 needs a pecific voltage in every band to remote connector
> to recognise in which band the rig is. See this page for the specific
> voltages if you are interested
> http://www.geekshed.co.uk/icom-ci-v-or-band-data-to-yaesu-bcd-band-data-converter/
>
> 73 Kostas sv1dpi
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George"<goofyham at rochester.rr.com>
> To:<dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 2:49 PM
> Subject: [Dx4win] control of a PW-1 amp using a ORion-2
>
>
>> I wonder if Paul has any intention of including control of the PW-1 amp
>> from
>> non Icom transceivers? It could be included in the CONTROL of the
>> PREFERENCES to send a CI-V command out a serial port and then be level
>> converted to a CI-V cable to the PW-1.
>> Anyone heard of this request?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> George  W2YJ
>>
>>
>>
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