[Dxbase] [dxbase] Fw: Help running two radios please

Sun Oct 2 22:17:22 EDT 2011

And, in addition to Greg's advise ... remember that DXbase  has the PRIMARY bandplan mapping and
the ALTERNATE Bandplan mapping ... 

SO -- (just as an example for John) --- let's say he sets-up  his  Primary Bandplan Mapping
for the  individual Radio being on a specific freq BLOCK --- The WAY that I had mentioned
previously ---

Then - he could SELECT the Alternate (tools User Options) and then setup the Alternate
Bandplan Mapping for the SO2R Ops ...

This way -- the only thing John would have to do is to select the  Bandplan Mapping he is
going to USE for that particular situation ...  Let the Primary and Alternate bandplan 
stay hard-and-fast  -- and switch between the Bandplans (user options) whenever
you want to change the situation there at ur shakc..

Just a thought 

Joe wa6axe

To: dxbase at yahoogroups.com
From: tjjeeper at bak.rr.com
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 19:02:23 -0700
Subject: RE: [dxbase] Fw: Help running two radios please

      John, Joe’s answer covers it if you are using each radio for a specific portion of the band like you state. BUT if you’re using both radios in a SO2R style setting, then you set it to disable and the plan will still work for both radios. Tony figured this out when I was complaining, thinking like you are/were. The “gotcha” is if you do not have both radios powered up then DXbase will uncheck the box for initializing the radio that is off. It will possibly lock up the program if you turn it off while the program is running and you turn off the radio (while it figures out what happened on that address that isn’t reporting anymore). Because my two radios are on two separate power supplies I just change the radio setting depending on which radio I’m using. There is a chance I’ll use both radios at some time in the future for VHF/UHF contesting but not sure I’ll use DXbase when I do. Greg From: dxbase at yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxbase at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Farber
Sent: October 02, 2011 12:51 PM
To: dxbase at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [dxbase] Fw: Help running two radios please 

Thanks for the info Greg. I have a couple more questions.
So the band mapping is specific to each radio then? I don't want to go through that whole process of deselecting etc. each and every time I want to use radio 2 or am I missing something?  I understand OK about defining each rig and COM port, baud rate rate, etc. But messing with band plans why?
And as far as de-selecting one rig or another, I use the 2 radio setup becasue I have a station for 30 m -6 m with an IC-756ProIII, Alpha 99 and brick amp for 6 m, and for the low band setup an IC-775DSP plus an old Alpha 77 dedicated just the low bands, 160-40, and a common full-wave loop for 160 m. So I normally just turn off the low band equipment when I'm operating 30 m and higher in freq. Likewise, when I'm operating the low band setup, I just turn off the 30-6 m rig. Then when I initialize DXBase, it only finds one radio and doesn't complain about the other one. I just wanted to know how the "Use Radio 2" command  under Tools works, and what I had to setup for it first.
Thanks, John From: Greg Engle <tjjeeper at bak.rr.com>
To: dxbase at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, October 1, 2011 10:05:36 AM
Subject: RE: [dxbase] Fw: Help running two radios please

  To elaborate on Tony's answer.
He's right but you have to set it up.

The radios have two separate addresses on the CI-V buss but share the same
comport. 
You have to go to tools, options, user options and set up the second radio.
Then you have to go to the band map (tools, options, band plan mapping) and
deselect radio1 and set to Disable (all entries, click on radio1 and it has
a little drop down box).

Then it's just selecting the second radio when you want to use that one
(little grey icon with a >2 in my color scheme in the tool bar or as Tony
said, tools, second radio ).

Remember to have BOTH radios on before you start DXbase of it'll deselect
the radio that isn't on.

This will be pretty handy for me with the VHF/UHF on the 9100 (second
radio).

Now to get some bandpass filters so I don't blow up an HF front end!

73,
Greg
NZ6E
(With both the 7600 and 9100 working, finally!)

-----Original Message-----
From: dxbase at yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxbase at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Tony
Sent: October 01, 2011 9:31 AM
To: dxbase at yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [dxbase] Fw: Help running two radios please

John,
You only have to click the toolbar or the use radio 2 under Tools.

73 de Tony, KD4K

-----Original Message-----
From: dxbase at yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxbase at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
John Farber
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 2:47 AM
To: dxbase at yahoogroups.com; dxbase at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [dxbase] Fw: Help running two radios please

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: John Farber <kg6i at att.net>
To: dxbase at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, October 1, 2011 1:05:52 AM
Subject: Help running two radios please

I'm running an Icom IC-756 ProIII as Radio 1 and an IC-775DSP as Radio 2.
My setup uses both rigs connected through the IC-17 level converter to a
single COM 1 real serial port. I've gotten it to work, sort-of.
My questions: 
1. What has chnaged/improved for these rigs in Joe's new Radio.ini file?
2. How does using the "Use Radio 2" selection under Tools in DXBase2007
work?
3. Is it necessary when you want to use Radio 2 to have to turn off the box
for Radio 1 that sez "Connect radio 1 on program startup" a setup page under

Options>User Options>Radio 1, or can this be done by just selecting "Use
Radio
2" under Tools?
Thanks, John

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