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

[Dick Kriss]

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