[Premium-Rx] receiver control by PC

[refmon]

Hi Gary,

Sounds about typical for Harris.  Even in broadcast television, my customers
are always finding there's that one more item needed to make your Harris
item work...always nice gear, but marketed and documented in less than
flexible ways for the user.  Anyway, I'm really impressed with the new
Labview ver 7.0, and. come to think of it, National Instruments' flexible
and well documented software, hardware, and support.

The great thing is that you can do everything any other available program
will do and more, to whatever, whenever you want.  Logging and reporting are
really interesting, with all the FFT's, statistical displays, and
formatting.  All I've had to do to turn my 8568B spectrum analyzer into a
high speed logger for my band of choice is set up a few control panel
buttons, tie them to nodes in the logic flow chart, toss in some arithmetic,
generate a graph, and voila, the band is captured with min hold/peak hold,
average, etc AND the system can then scan the data logging the active
channels, calculate bandwidth, etc.  I think that took about 1 hour
including fixing my dopey mistakes.

Controlling WJ and Cubic receivers is even easier.

Now all NI has to do is come up with Labview Light, or some
such..................

regards

John
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Mitchelson - N3JPU" <n3jpu at speakeasy.net>
To: "'refmon'" <monitor at referencevideo.com>; <premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 05:02 AM
Subject: RE: [Premium-Rx] receiver control by PC


> I did a control program for a older radio shack PRO-2006 scanner with a
> add-on RS-232 interface. I made a real nice interface that had full
> automatic logging and recording to a soundcard for later playback.
> LabView is easy to work with, I only have worked with V3 to V6.
>
> I have been trying to get the remote control command set for my Harris
> 590, 350K and 7210A so I can do something but Harris will not release
> them.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: premium-rx-bounces at ml.skirrow.org
> [mailto:premium-rx-bounces at ml.skirrow.org] On Behalf Of refmon
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 06:19
> To: premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org
> Subject: [Premium-Rx] receiver control by PC
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there anyone on-list that has done any National Instruments Labview
> VI work for premium RX's?  Specifically Watkins Johnson 8618B and 8615
> (with HF extenders).  Current release 7 shows real promise, although it
> carries a $2K pricetag.  Initial experiments indicate Labview can blow
> the doors off most commercially available applications, especially when
> you consider applications can be modified in minutes.
>
> thanks
>
> John Collins
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