Having decided to shelve AATest due to problems in maintaining the integrity of the data in a reliable, consistent lack of support and non-existent documentation begin what promises to go be a substantial learning curve to get a handle on some familiarity with the program that provides free N1MM . Given the wealth of functions and elements to configure guess it takes an appreciable time to take advantage in some depth what it can offer. Just a cursory reading shows that the scope of the program is equally profound for CW, SSB and digital modes (RTTY, PSK, etc). The documentation looks stunning with over 400 pages with all kinds of functions, macros, tips and suggested settings. As is well established in several parts of the features offered are so specialized that end advising " .... if you can not serve this function to leave it as it is !!... ."
I am slowly setting up a basic configuration that when you return to Argentina on my machine can display radio testing different combinations of macros and settings database. However, the party will most likely have to work with the equipment interface and that I can not do until you are back.
For now I know that there will be conflict in the use of CAT as N1MM provides its own services for remote control of equipment, but does not provide a way to integrate external programs to process signals (such as filters in my case ) or tuned via an interface to external waterfall. To keep doing that with the combination CwGet + OmniRig can not let N1MM take control of the respective serial ports. So I need 2 ports two separate series for CAT SO2R configuration under the control OmniRig and other 2 ports for two separate series under the control of manipulators N1MM. Another alternative is to manipulate LPT port (for which I have to change the keyer interface) as in this case with a single port can control two computers. Curiously not provide the possibility to control the manipulation that goes radio by pin serial port and if done with a pin LPT port. N1MM
also provides support for tuning by OmniRig therefore can not share ports with the series. This has further negative aspect that will not help all the provisions that have the software to control N1MM tuning of the equipment involved, especially in modes assisted "from the data stream coming from the cluster.
The alternative to using 4 serial ports and 3 serial ports plus an LPT port can be to use a splitter serial port as virtual serial port provided by the company Eterlogic (vspeed) but will have to test carefully possible interactions between such thing walking at the same time trying to control the same hardware resources.
A small bonus, surprisingly, was found in the documentation of N1MM a reference to a program I wrote some time ago called TelMgr whose purpose was present as a gateway to telnet to an AGW Packet Engine ; long that program is in legacy mode (ie without active support and new versions). But it has been stable for a long time and its purpose is so dimensioned that can continue to function indefinitely until some change in the operating system introduced some change (such as Microsoft usually does) that causes that no longer work. Figure under the authorship of my old license (LU7DID) but still can be downloaded from my website at qsl.net .
going to be important to see how you can evaluate how it works once it's set at the station and all the hardware already deployed settings, experience in the ARRL DX shows that one can not expect the competition to do so. But then there are contests in which thinking involved at my station until May (the first date of Argentine HF and CQ WPX CW), before that is the CQ WPX in which it appears that will participate in an M / M from LQ5H or Russian DX that has no category that catches my attention (AB Mixed QRP only). Ingeniarmelas so I'll have to try everything in normal QSO. It is a platform worthy of respect it deserves appreciation to those who have taken so much work to put at our disposal.
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