Re: [Hamlib-developer] Kenwood TS-990s

[Stephen H. <sh...@sa...>]

Peter Bacon wrote:
> Stephen
> My first priority has to be the COM port connection to the TS-990s for the
> simple reason that this connects through my Microham Keyer and Microham
> Station Master to run all the station controls (amps and antenna switching).
> But at some stage I would be interested in the Ethernet connection for
> remote control.
> 73 Peter G3ZSS

Have you tried using the TS-590 or TS-2000 backends?  It looks like they
should work for almost all of the hamlib features, and Kenwood has
mostly tried to keep the command set backward compatible.

I'm actually starting with the older rigs and moving to the new ones
because the older ones are quite a bit more simple and so provide a nice
way to ease into the code.  Also, I have a TS-940S/AT on my desk, so I
can test my changes relatively quickly without begging a shell account
from someone with the rig in question.

Once I'm finished cleaning up these older rigs, if it would be possible
to get me a shell account on a Linux box attached to the TS-990 and meet
you in IRC somewhere, I expect that it wouldn't take more than eight or
nine hours to get everything working well over the COM port.  I think I
will have a nice clean patchset by the end of the weekend, so sometime
after that would be fine with me.  The differing timezones will likely
cause the biggest problem (I'm UTC-8:00).

Of course, since I'm new to code base and mailing list, you need to take
anything I say with a grain of salt.  It's not unusual in open source
for people to show up and talk big then disappear before any useful work
gets done, so you pretty much have to assume that's what I'll do until I
submit a bit more of a patchset than I already have.