[Logic] LOGic with Kenwood control software (RCP)

[Ben Hatheway]

Logic will control the radio just fine. merely select it in righ setup.

I also have TRX and find it to be much easier to use on a day-to-day basis.
For example, mic gain, TX eq, bandwidth, etc are more easily accessed from
TRX .

Ben
N6FM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill VanAlstyne" <w5wvo@cybermesa.net>
To: "_Mailing List LOGic" <logic@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 17:46
Subject: [Logic] LOGic with Kenwood control software (RCP)


> I recently traded my Yaesu FT-897 for a Kenwood TS-B2000 (the so-called
> "black box" unit). It is entirely controlled by software. No front panel!
It
> is an amazing radio, and extremely hot on 6M, my favorite band.
>
> But this post isn't really about the TS-B2000. It's about software.
>
> PDA's TRX-Manager software, which I downloaded yesterday and am demoing,
is
> aware of LOGic and integrates seamlessly with it. LOGic treats TRX-Manager
> as a "rig", and communicates with the radio through TRX-Manager's serial
> connection. Cool idea. However, I've already grown disillusioned with
> TRX-Manager as a rig control program. After banging my head against the
> figurative wall for 24 hours trying to figure out how to do certain things
> with the radio, I finally found this little caveat in the "fine print" of
> the TRX-Manager Help file:
>
> "[E]ven through [sic] TRX-Manager may be used with a TS-B2000 (Black Box),
> TRX-Manager is not intended to be a substitute for the Kenwood's ARCP
> software. TRX-Manager offers an alternative to the full control via a
> computer."
>
> Though trying to parse the author's "Franc-lish" is occasionally daunting,
I
> think this is what they call a disclaimer.  <g>  And it is the truth.
> Accessing some of the TS-B2000's setup parameters is slow and unwieldy,
and
> accessing many of them is impossible. You could, of course, run both
> programs -- RCP for setup and configuration, and TRX-Manager for
> operation -- but that seems silly and klugey, especially in view of the
fact
> that the Kenwood RCP software is actually quite good and very
> user-intuitive -- which, IMHO, TRX-Manager is not.
>
> But I want to keep LOGic 7's connection to the radio so it will log my
band,
> frequency, mode, etc. Is this possible without the Kenwood software being
> specifically aware of LOGic, as is TRX-Manager? How can both programs
> communicate with the radio at once? Am I looking at some kind of
> unattractive compromise here?
>
> Bill / W5WVO
>
>
>
>
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