[Icom] CIV Control of Icom VHF and UHF rigs

[Gary V. Smith]

Ham Radio Deluxe < www.ham-radio.ch/forums/index.php > radio control 
software.  It's free.  It'll work with the 706, but not the 2100.  It is a 
great piece of work and still in development.  HRD works with most current 
and many older HF/VHF/UHF rigs.  It is already being developed to work with 
the IC-7800.  HRD also has Mapper and PSK31 modules and plays well with the 
DXKeeper suite of logging and etc. software.  As far as I know no plans are 
in the works for it to support VHF/UHF-only rigs.  A new version is 
scheduled to be released this weekend.  Some users have developed some 
remote control applications.  It's well worth checking out.

73,
Gary - W6GVS

At 09:51 AM 4/9/04, you wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I need to set up some UHF and VHF radios for Skywarn use in an
>operations center that is 500 cable feet from the antenna location.
>Running heliax is not an option and remote control of radios placed
>in the equipment shelter near the antennas seems the best way to go.
>I know many of the current rigs support a cpu interface that lets
>them be cloned from each other and I wonder if this is a CIV
>interface that could be used for rig control, mainly frequency,
>tone, offset, and power.  If so is there any freely available
>software that would demonstrate this function on a IC-2100H.  I
>know this would work with a 706 but the price of that may be a bit
>steep.
>
>Ken Brown, n5kuk