[ICOM] Icom HF to AEA Hamlink

[Ekki Plicht]

On Friday 27 May 2005 19:13, KØCQW wrote:
> Looking for CIV information as to interfacing to a AEA Hamlink. The
> Hamlink was made in  1993
> in the information for the Hamlink they reference  to Icom and are not
> rig specific. Looks like the IC-735 and others
> may have been in production at that time.
>
> Here is the question will a IC-718 work with the CIV commands embedded
> in the interface?

Most certainly. Just set your IC-718 to "transceive on" and choose a baudrate 
which the AEA device accepts.
If you run into problems it might be that the AEA requires the older CI-V data 
format (4 instead of 5 five data bytes for frequency). You can set that in 
the IC-718 in the menu, the menu option is "CI-V IC-731 mode". But my guess 
is that the AEA understands the 5-byte format. In 1993 the IC-735/731, which 
was the only rig with the shorter data format, was already old.

For more general information about the Icom CI-V protocol see
http://www.plicht.de/ekki/civ


73,
Ekki, DF4OR