[Hamlib-developer] Codan NGT and Hamlib troubles…

[Brian D. <br...@ar...>]

Hey everyone, I’m working with the county OEM to get several Codan NGT radios working with VarAC (and the commercial version in the case of the EOC). I’ve programmed all VarAC call and slot frequencies into channel memory.

I can talk to the radio via PuTTY and it will happily receive commands. I have the latest rigctl running 4.6, and 34002 is set as my rig. I’m signed in as admin and I have the freetune feature, so I’m open TX between 1.6 and 30 MHz. (It's like the amateur feature, but with zero band restrictions.)

If I start the radio and leave echo on, when I issue a command through rigctl (let’s say ‘f’ to query frequency), it shows that it sent the radio the ‘freq’ command and the rigctl sees the radio echo ‘freq’ as the response, which is obviously not gonna work. Then, if I turn echo off, when I issue the ‘f’ command, rigctl yells and then says it timed out and then prompts me for another command.

I’m SO close to having this perfect and there’s just something in the syntax that rigctl doesn’t seem to like about the radio’s reply. Please help! I’d gladly donate a chunk of change to get this fixed.

Regards,
Brian Daugherty | KF5WCW
Ark River Radio Services
Office: +1.719.881.0785
Cell: +1.512.605.7926