[Ham-Mac] Help with an AppleScript for cocoaPTT to key a Kenwood TS-590S via a USB Interface

[Dick Kriss]

TNX to a tip from Rick WA6ES I figured out how to get cocoaModem to key 
the TS-590S via the direct USB interface. 

There was no need for an AppleScript or cocoaPTT. The item inhibiting the 
transmit was the TS-590S Menu Item #69 DATA VOX that was set to the 
Kenwood factory default OFF position (that works fine with fldigi). Once Menu 
Item #69 was changed to ON, cocoaModem started keying the rig.  

The other helpful tip was from Chen W7AY who sent a message to Rich 
WA6ES to check posting #694 in the cocoaModem Yahoo Group where he 
mentioned TS-590S users may want to set cocoaModem to the Right Channel 
vs. the default Left Channel. 

The combination of the two tips solved the TS-590S transmission issue. 

It has been a long time since I have used cocoaModem and it is nice to 
know it works great with the TS-590S using the direct USB interface. 

I am now QSY back to fldigi for daily use.

73 Dick AA5VU


On Jun 29, 2011, at 7:09 AM, Dick Kriss wrote:

> When I was testing the TXLevel attenuator in fldigi, I wanted to try a 
> performance comparison with cocoaModem. I have not used W7AY's 
> cocoaModem 2.0 for some time so I installed the latest version and 
> ran into a transmission issue. 
> 
> I had no problem receiving in cocoaModem via the USB Audio CODEC 
> input but could not figure out how to get cocoaModem to key the 
> Kenwood TS-590S via the USB Audio CODEC output.
> 
> My assessment was the problem was related to the direct USB interface 
> between the Kenwood TS-590 and the iMac running OS X 10.6; and
> my assumption was cocoaPTT could be used to handle the PTT. I checked 
> W7AY's web for page for cocoaPTT at
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/chen/w7ay/cocoaPTT%202.0/index.html
> 
> and it talks about serial ports rather than USB ports. I did managed to get 
> the cocoaPTT Preferences/Serial Port selector to find the SLAB_USBtoUART 
> and checked RTS option. The configuration panel shows the cocoaPTT 
> option active; however, it still would not key the rig. 
> 
> The missing element in my setup is an AppleScript that can be selected 
> from the cocoaModem Preferences/AppleScript to key the rig.  My attempt 
> to prepare a script following the example failed. I am not very good with 
> AppleScripts and just gave up messing with it.
> 
> If you have an AppleScript that will let cocoaModem and cocoaPTT key a 
> rig via a direct USB interface, I would appreciate a copy.  
> 
> 
> 73 Dick AA5VU
> 
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