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CAT protocol specifications?
Hi group(s),
I am looking for the specifications of the CAT protocol mainly for Yaesu and Kenwood TRXs. I have the basic commands in the user's manual but I am looking for full specs, including memories management, etc. Any pointers or hints would be highly appreciated. TNX in advance. P. |
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CAT protocol specifications?
"silverdr" wrote in message
... Hi group(s), I am looking for the specifications of the CAT protocol mainly for Yaesu and Kenwood TRXs. I have the basic commands in the user's manual but I am looking for full specs, including memories management, etc. Any pointers or hints would be highly appreciated. TNX in advance. P. Google "kenwood CAT protocol" |
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CAT protocol specifications?
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:24:10 +0200, silverdr
wrote: Hi group(s), I am looking for the specifications of the CAT protocol mainly for Yaesu and Kenwood TRXs. I have the basic commands in the user's manual but I am looking for full specs, including memories management, etc. Any pointers or hints would be highly appreciated. TNX in advance. The FT-897D uses 5 byte command blocks.The first 4 bytes hold the command arguments while the carries the opcode. The manual provides the opcodes and further details. Essentially all the control software does is read and write command blocks to a comm port. In the Windows world the port is controlled via calls to kernel32.dll. 73 de n4jvp |
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CAT protocol specifications?
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:27:26 -0500, Glenn wrote:
"silverdr" wrote: I am looking for the specifications of the CAT protocol mainly for Yaesu and Kenwood TRXs. I have the basic commands in the user's manual but I am looking for full specs, including memories management, etc. Any pointers or hints would be highly appreciated. TNX in advance. Google "kenwood CAT protocol" What a concept, ehhhh? |
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"silverdr" wrote in message ... Hi group(s), I am looking for the specifications of the CAT protocol mainly for Yaesu and Kenwood TRXs. I have the basic commands in the user's manual but I am looking for full specs, including memories management, etc. Any pointers or hints would be highly appreciated. TNX in advance. P. Get hold of a packet sniffer and trap the comms between the radio and commercial control software such as ARCP2000. Haven't bothered with Yaesu, but I have a Kenwood TS2000. The radio can run up to 56.7k and looks like a modem. Uses a standard 9 pin modem cable. The Owners Manual is available for download and carries a whole section on the command structure. This structure has been in place since they first started using it and they just keep adding to it. Earlier radios require a level shifter and only run 4800bd but have the same memory and vfo commands. Beware that even the power on and several other commands require a sequence of commands and telemetry. There are commands that interrogate the status of specific conditions before deciding the appropriate command or string of commands, but simpler things like reading vfos and mode are simple and included in many third party programs. I am currently using ARCP-2000, LOG-eqf, RIG-eqf (for dos), MCP-2000, and a very interesting Excel spreadsheet by K9DCI that allows management of extreme frequency lists. 73, ac6tk http://techinfo.awardspace.com |
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CAT protocol specifications?
Glenn wrote:
I am looking for the specifications of the CAT protocol mainly for Yaesu and Kenwood TRXs. I have the basic commands in the user's manual but I am looking for full specs, including memories management, etc. Any pointers or hints would be highly appreciated. TNX in advance. Google "kenwood CAT protocol" I did Google "Yaesu CAT protocol" (this is the first one I need) and similar combinations few times before I looked for the appropriate group to ask the question. Unfortunately I found little to none information of the kind I look for. |
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JB wrote:
I am looking for the specifications of the CAT protocol mainly for Yaesu and Kenwood TRXs. I have the basic commands in the user's manual but I am looking for full specs, including memories management, etc. Any pointers or hints would be highly appreciated. TNX in advance. Get hold of a packet sniffer and trap the comms between the radio and commercial control software such as ARCP2000. Huh - this I also had in mind already but I would still prefer to have the specs rather than sniff the communications. This is especially valid when the reason why I need the specs is defined as "no Windows machine to run the commercial (or non-commercial) control software in the vicinity" ;-) Haven't bothered with Yaesu, Well - that is exactly what I need now. Kenwood is second on the list because I plan to buy one for winter. Right now I need to do something with the Yaesu. but I have a Kenwood TS2000. The radio can run up to 56.7k and looks like a modem. Uses a standard 9 pin modem cable. The Owners Manual is available for download and carries a whole section on the command structure. This structure has been in place since they first started using it and they just keep adding to it. Earlier radios require a level shifter and only run 4800bd but have the same memory and vfo commands. Good to know that there is at least some sanity over the "commerciality" within Kenwood staff. Beware that even the power on and several other commands require a sequence of commands and telemetry. There are commands that interrogate the status of specific conditions before deciding the appropriate command or string of commands, but simpler things like reading vfos and mode are simple and included in many third party programs. I am currently using ARCP-2000, LOG-eqf, RIG-eqf (for dos), MCP-2000, and a very interesting Excel spreadsheet by K9DCI that allows management of extreme frequency lists. I think I shall archive this post as I plan on TS2000X and may return to it later. |
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CAT protocol specifications?
Registered User wrote:
I am looking for the specifications of the CAT protocol mainly for Yaesu and Kenwood TRXs. I have the basic commands in the user's manual but I am looking for full specs, including memories management, etc. Any pointers or hints would be highly appreciated. TNX in advance. The FT-897D uses 5 byte command blocks.The first 4 bytes hold the command arguments while the carries the opcode. The manual provides the opcodes and further details. Yes - the manual provides the basics and explains how to construct the packets etc. What is missing though are the methods of handling the memory banks. It even doesn't say how to read/write memory locations (I may suspect that user memories are to be accessed by reading/writing specific hardware memory addresses). And I have read somewhere that there is a full specifications document, which covers these topics plus there is even more - some undocumented features, which can be accessed this way. I am looking for at least the specs that would allow one to deal with user memories. FT-897 is a good choice - I have to deal with FT-857, which is supposed to be fully compatible, but also with VX-7R, which almost certainly is not. |
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CAT protocol specifications?
Thomas Laus wrote:
I am looking for the specifications of the CAT protocol mainly for Yaesu and Kenwood TRXs. I have the basic commands in the user's manual but I am looking for full specs, including memories management, etc. Any pointers or hints would be highly appreciated. TNX in advance. Yes - the manual provides the basics and explains how to construct the packets etc. What is missing though are the methods of handling the memory banks. It even doesn't say how to read/write memory locations (I may suspect that user memories are to be accessed by reading/writing specific hardware memory addresses). And I have read somewhere that there is a full specifications document, which covers these topics plus there is even more - some undocumented features, which can be accessed this way. I am looking for at least the specs that would allow one to deal with user memories. FT-897 is a good choice - I have to deal with FT-857, which is supposed to be fully compatible, but also with VX-7R, which almost certainly is not. Have you tried looking in the files for the Hamlib project on Sourceforge? http://hamlib.sourceforge.net/ They keep a repository of various software interfaces to a lot of radios. I have used the Kenwood library to get some hints on how to talk to my TS-950. You might be able to gain some insight into how your Yaesu talks it's COMM port. Now that might be a good hint! Thank you, I shall definitely look into those. Still, I am wondering how do all those people who write the CAT software gain their knowledge. I would expect the producers to publish the full specs but so far no reply from "vertex".. |
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