Cant get rig control to work

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wb2ogy
Cant get rig control to work

There seems to be a problem opening my serial port

steve@steve-laptop:~/cqrlog$ ./cqrlog
[WARNING] Out of OEM specific VK codes, changing to unassigned
[WARNING] Out of unassigned VK codes, assigning $FF
Starting CQRLOG ...
An error has occured setting the rig pathname:/dev/ttyUSB0
An error has occured setting the rig pathname:/dev/ttyUSB0

grig works fine with the command
grig -m 123 -r /dev/ttyUSB0 -s 9600

Can you provide some guidance. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 and have installed all the 32 bit libraries.

Thanks,
Steve
WB2OGY

ok2cqr
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Re: Cant get rig control to work

Hi Steve,

please enable debug mode and paste here what CQRLOG writes down into console. Thank you.
How to enable debug mode is here:

http://www.cqrlog.com/?q=node/217#comment-542

73 Petr, OK2CQR

wb2ogy
Re: Cant get rig control to work

Peter,

I finally got it working last evening. The problem was after I loaded the 32 bit library, I had to remove the 64 bit hamlib.

Thanks, yours is the best Linux Ham program. One wish is that you implement full radio frequency control using the mouse wheel. With that addition you could compete with Ham Radio Deluxe and DX Labs which are probably the best Windows programs.

A few Linux improvements and my next computer may not have to dual boot.

73,
Steve
WB2OGY

Steve

ok2cqr
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Re: Cant get rig control to work

Hi Steve,

I'm glad you finally get radio control work.

How should tunning with mouse wheel work? I don't know hamradio deluxe. Please describe me it. I could probaly add it to CQRLOG, too.

Thank you.

73 Petr, OK2CQR

wb2ogy
Mousewheel Tuning

Peter,

Moving the mouse wheel on the computer changes the the radio frequency in the same way as the knob on the radio. In most programs you can quickly change the step size. For example if you click on the 1 kHz display setting each incremental turn of the wheel will increase or decrease the radios frequency by 1 kHz. If you first click the 10 kHz position each incremental turn of the wheel increase or decrease the radios frequency by 10 kHz.

It is better to try it yourself. I assume you have a amateur friend who still uses windows. Look at the web site http://www.ham-radio-deluxe.com/. It is a free download for windows and just as your program is the best for Linux Ham Radio Deluxe is the best windows program.

Maybe easier to check and possibly get code from is an open source Linux program grig. See http://groundstation.sourceforge.net/grig/. It doesn't have much other functionality but should give you the idea.

73,
Steve
WB2OGY

Steve

ok2cqr
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Re: Mousewheel Tuning

Thank you very much, Steve. I'll think about it. It won't be so easy.

73 Petr, OK2CQR

kc2du
rig control for Ten-tec 538 (Jupiter)

I am also having problems getting rig control to work. I am running CQRLOG 0.9.1 under ubuntu 9.04. I have hamlib 1.2.9 installed. Fldigi works just fine on it's own; the interface to the Jupiter seems to work OK. I have used rigctl to also check the hamllib interface to the radio; this works well.
Here is the output when I run CQRLOG with the debug option turned on:
./cqrlog
[WARNING] Out of OEM specific VK codes, changing to unassigned
[WARNING] Out of unassigned VK codes, assigning $FF
Starting CQRLOG ...
RootDirectory = /home/john/cqrlog_0.9.1_bin/
RootDirectory = /home/john/cqrlog_0.9.1_bin/
RootDirectory = /home/john/cqrlog_0.9.1_bin/
ExternalFileAccess = Restrict /home/john/cqrlog_0.9.1_bin/log_data
SELECT * FROM version

SELECT * FROM cqrlog_main ORDER BY qsodate,time_on
In inicializerig
Model:1602
Port:Ten-tec 538
Baudrate:57600
Databits:8
StopBits:1
Handshake:Hardware
Parity:None
DTR:OFF
RTS:ON
Poll:500
rig_open: error =
rig_open: error = 250
Reloading rig configuration
rig_open: error =
rig_open: error = 250
SELECT * FROM profiles WHERE visible > 0 ORDER BY nr

SELECT * FROM profiles WHERE nr = 0

Am I doing something wrong? Any help is appreciated.
73,
John, KC2DU

ok1rr
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rig control for Ten-tec 538 (Jupiter)

Check your port settings. The handshake should be set to HARDWARE and both DTR and RTS must be UNCHECKED !!!

73
Martin, OK1RR

kc2du
rig control for TT 538

Hi Martin,
I unchecked the RTS box; it did not make a difference. Still no TRX control.
73, John, KC2DU