Specifications

Select a free COM port and fill in the settings accordingly (do not select Handshaking if your
controller does not use it: this may lock up the program).
Default command format is ASCII. If you use the Hexadecimal format, check HEX.
Band/Segment
The Band/Segment option defines the way the band data are defined.
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If BAND is checked (default), band data are defined for each band (GEN, 160m to 70cm).
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If SEGMENT is checked (for Expert) band data are defined for each segment of the band
plan under Preferences/Transceiver/Band plan .
10m and 80 m sub-bands
By default the program splits the 10m band in two sub-bands. You may choose spliting of the 80m
band and/or define the limit for each subband. The choice of the sub-band applies to many
parameters such as: band decoder, antenna, rotor...
COMMAND FORMAT
Parallel port
You use a BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) format on 8 bits which allows controlling pins 2 to 9 of
the parallel port. The default format emulates a Yaesu radio on pins 2-5: you can always
return to the Yaesu format by clicking the Default button.
You may program pins 2 to 9 by modifying the strings assigned to each band. Each character
of the string represents the state of a pin (from 2 to 9), as follow :
"0" : low state
"1" : high state
"-" : not used
"a-d": see SO4R
Examples :
1100---- : pins 2 and 3 are at a high state, pins 4 and 5 are at a low state, pins 6 to
9 are not programmed
10010000 : pins 2 and 5 are at a high state, other pins are at a low state
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