yeah, having it auto read a meter while making adjustments is
excellent...would make tuning both band pass, and band reject cans pretty
sweet.
is the ifr1200 your typical service monitor of it's vintage with knobs and
switches and so on? or is it one of the newer style with menus and soft
settings etc?
73
Colin, V A6BKX
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From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 1:38 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: The mystery transceiver is identified!
> Yep, speaks, you can quiry the meters enter frequency set pl tones and
> so forth. I can do everything I could with my computer. It is set up
> for 4800 baud on the serial port. The only other thing we had to do was
> tie a couple pins together, I will have to look which before the ifr
> would send data. Sure beats carying a laptop around. I also had him
> write in a routine that I did in my basic program where it will give you
> a reading every specified number of seconds, so if you're adjusting
> deviation or whatever you don't have to keep quirying the meter. Rob is
> one heck of a programmer and this thing is really cool. I've used it on
> 1200a and 1200 s.
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
>
>
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2014, Colin McDonald wrote:
>
>> does the hampod provide speech feedback? or is it just an input device
>> only?
>> I can probably obtain an IFR1200 from one of the many techy guys around
>> here, and if the hampod makes it usable without site then great.
>>
>> 73
>> Colin, V A6BKX
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 1:23 PM
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: The mystery transceiver is identified!
>>
>>> I'm fortunate in that I have an ifr 1200 service monitor which makes
>>> tuning duplexers and repeters a breeze. I use to control it with a
>>> basic
>>> program i wrote with my laptop, but Rob wrote me a program for the
>>> hampod
>>> and now I use one of those to control the ifr. Really cool!!!
>>> 73
>>> Butch
>>> WA0VJR
>>> Node 3148
>>> Wallace, ks.
>>
>>
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