[Icom] Band data

Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:04:27 -0700

Back in the 90s, an article was published in QST which decoded these=20
voltages & automatically switched antennas. I suspect it's being carried=20
along for consistency.

73 - Larry W=D8NFU
[email protected]

At 07:20 AM 7/17/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>You are looking at a historical artefact...
>The "Band Data" predates WARC... In fact the "0.0V" was kluge to
>accommodate the new 30M band....
>This voltage is used to control older Icom accessories such as the
>AT500.
>Newer Icom gear decodes the CI-V data.
>
>
>Are the following band data values from my PROII correct?
>
>160 7.30v
>  80 6.06v
>  40 5.06v
>  30 0.00v
>  20 4.06v
>  17 3.18v
>  15 3.18v
>  12 2.23v
>  10 2.23v
>   6 1.88v
>
>No unique decoding for 30, 17, and 12 meters???
>
>
>Mel...
>VE2DC
>
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