[ICOM] DXLAB

[Dave AA6YQ]

Commander, DXLab's transceiver control component, assumes that your
transceiver is present at the operator position; it therefore does not
allocate screen space -- a precious commodity -- to replicate functions
already available on your transceiver's front panel. Instead, it provides
functions that your transceiver does not: displaying settings for
frequency-dependent devices (e.g. a tuner or amplifier) that automatically
track as you QSY, or displaying needed (with respect to what you've got
confirmed vs. your award objectives) DX spots on a bandmap with QSX
frequencies extracted from spot notes so that a single-double-click puts you
in the pileup.

Commander does provide 8 buttons that can be used to initiate sequences of
user-defined commands; these can be used to switch antennas, step between
several discrete PBT widths or RF gain levels, etc.

In short, DXLab is optimized for DXing, not remote control. If your interest
is remote control, HRD is the better choice for transceiver control. That's
why I developed a bridge application that allows HRD to be used in place of
Commander with the rest of the DXLab Suite.

    73,

       Dave, AA6YQ (author, DXLab)


-----Original Message-----
From: icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of LARRY M WASSMAN
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 10:07 PM
To: ICOM Reflector
Subject: [ICOM] DXLAB


I have heard the talk about the DXlab program and how well it works. I use
Ham Radio Deluxe and it is great. But I am always looking at other things
especially ones that are free or next to free. Maybe some of you users of
DXlab can help me. I have a Pro III. I looked at the screen shots and they
gave examples using a Kenwood on the rig control program. I did not see much
as far as rig control on that example and wondered if they rig control for
the 756 Pro series was better. For instance where is the control for things
like AF gain, RF gain and Pass Band tuning? Also Filter width, Noise
blanker, VOX control, internal EQ controls and others. I did not even see a
way of changing the level of the monitor. So if some of you guys could
verify that there is in fact controls like this on the Icom rig control that
I did not see, I may be interested. Maybe the functions that I mentioned are
on another module. The rig control that I did see and example of was pretty
rudimentary and is no way as complete as HRD. Any help would be appreciated.
73 Larry W3OZ
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