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Dire Wolf is a software "soundcard" AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, as a tracker, digipeater, APRStt gateway, or Internet Gateway (IGate). For more information, look at the bottom 1/4 of this page and in https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/dev/doc/README.md
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Enable VFO definition for PTT via hamlib/rigctrld per channel #517

Open ctand opened 9 months ago

ctand commented 9 months ago

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There are current production radios such as the IC-2730A that will do V/V,U/U,V/U dual concurrent receive with separate audio outputs for VFOA and VFOB. One could do 70cm PBBS + 2m APRS using direwolf with a single radio if it were possible to switch the active TX (Main/Sub) VFO to the appropriate RX channel before transmitting. Cross band PBBSs, using one radio would also be possible. The IC-2730A has CAT support in hamlib with the ability to switch the active VFO. This is all technically possible. I've verified it with the IC-2730A at least. I'm aware there will be a minute amount of additional latency in the switching of VFO's. It seems in the stereo channel mode, messages are already queued between modems sharing an audio interface. This would be similar or require similar logic at least. The audio output from direwolf would be shared on the same device but use either a stereo input or two mono input devices to independently receive the audio.

I nearly implemented this myself but I figured it wouldn't be much for someone already familiar with the codebase. I think it's mostly all there when I took a look.

Thoughts? Am I missing something that would make this a bad idea?

Best,

Chris, N6CTA

CtrlC-Root commented 4 months ago

I am using Direwolf with a Digirig and CM108 sound card connected to an Icom 2730A radio. I am currently working around the PTT behavior in Direwolf as detailed here. The actual scripts on my system use rigctl to configure the radio appropriately before starting Direwolf and then use the set_vfo command to make sure the correct VFO is selected before the PTT signal is sent to the Digirig serial port. If you're looking to do this you might be able to use this as well until something better is available.

ctand commented 4 months ago

Thanks, I appreciate it. Unfortunately this is a slightly different issue wherein the VFO needs to be switched dynamically by Direwolf depending on which port the data is being received on in connected packet modes.