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AMAZING KENWOOD V.1.0
-- INTRODUCTION --
Amazing Kenwood is a no frills Kenwood HF radio controller created for fast
and easy radio operations.
I have seen several radio controllers, but they all lacked a function or two,
were too complicated to use, or they were specialized for one model.
While programming Amazing Kenwood I tried to keep "simple" in mind, and I
think I've managed to do just that.
It took about 20 programming hours to complete, and it will propably take me
double that just to write this short document.
-- COPYWRITE --
Amazing Kenwood is fully copywrited by Demetre Koymanakos.
Amazing Kenwood is released in the Public Domain area, and must be freely
distributed free of charge.
Kenwood, TS-140S, TS-711S, TS-811S, TS-940S and IF-232C are copywrited by
Kenwood Corp.
-- WARRANTY --
This program is warranted to take up disk space, If for some reason you manage
to break it, you get to keep both pieces !
-- VIRUS PROTECTION --
Amazing Kenwood was originally free from all known virii and trojans, the
executable was 47.712 bytes and was dated 05-16-94 and timed 3:41p
If any of the above has been changed, DO NOT USE...
-- HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS --
Amazing Kenwood requires at least a 10 Mhz PC-XT with a serial port COM1 or
COM2, a Kenwood IF-232C interface, and a Kenwood HF transceiver to properly
operate.
The program has been successfully tested on a 80486/50 clone with a Kenwood
TS-140S, and TS-680S.
-- FILES YOU NEED --
All you need is the AK.EXE file.
-- INTERNAL COMMANDS --
Once Amazing Kenwood runs, you may have a display such as the one that follows.
The first physical part of the display identifies the program and its version
and the Kenwood model that is used.
The second physical part will display all the operating information that is
made available by the model that is used, such as VFO frequency, RIT, XIT ect.
And last the third physical part displays the available commands, these are
separated into two types, the immediate commands and the parameter commands.
The first (immediate) commands, such as the 1 - VFO A once used will take
effect at once, as the second (parameter) commands, such as the [O] OFFSET
will prompt you at the 25th line of the display for input.
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ AMAZING KENWOOD V.1.0 (c) DK-1994 RUNNING ON A KENWOOD TS-940S │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌─────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┬──────┐
│ VFO A : 29.600.00 │ VFO B : 1.800.00 │ LOCAL TIME : 12:12:12 │ RX │
├────────────┬────────┴─────────────────────┴────┬─────────┬──────────┼──────┤
│ MODE : CWN │ ┐ ┌─┐ ┌─┐ ┌─┐ ┐ ┌─┐ RIT │ S C A N │ SPLIT │ LOCK │
├────────────┤ │ └─┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ +0100 │ MEM 12 │ TONE 10 │ HOLD │
│ STEP 00055 │ ┴ .└─┘ └─┘ └─┘. ┴ └─┘ XIT │ M.BNK 1 │ OFFSET + │ DCS │
├────────────┴─────┬───────────────────────┬─────┴────┬────┴──────────┴──────┤
│ DX CALL : VE2VE │ STATION CALL : SV1SV │ VBT : 12 │ SLOPE HI/LO : 01/22 │
└──────────────────┴───────────────────────┴──────────┴──────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ [A] VFO A FREQUENCY CHANGE [O] OFFSET 1 - VFO A 2 - VFO B │
│ [B] VFO B FREQUENCY CHANGE [P] STEP ON/OFF 3 - MEM 4 - COM │
│ [C] RIT CLEAR [R] RIT ON/OFF 5 - MEM CALL 6 - MEM SCAN │
│ [D] SLOPE TUNE [S] SCAN ON/OFF │
│ [T] ANTENNA TUNER CURSOR UP - FRQ UP │
│ [H] SCAN HOLD [U] PASSBAND SET CURSOR DOWN - FRQ DOWN │
│ [I] SPLIT [V] VOICE RECALL CURSOR RIGHT - RIT UP │
│ [L] LOCK CONTROLS [W] DCS ON/OFF CURSOR LEFT - RIT DOWN │
│ [M] MODE SELECTION [X] XIT ON/OFF SPACE BAR - TRANSMIT │
│ [N] TONE OPTIONS [Z] LOCAL ON/OFF ALT+Q - QUIT PROGRAM │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-- EXTERNAL COMMANDS --
There is only one external command, 2 (two) will change the default serial
port from COM1 to COM2.
AK.EXE -> will run Amazing Kenwood on COM1
AK.EXE 2 -> will run Amazing Kenwood on COM2
-- USING Amazing Kenwood --
There is very little you should be told in order to successfully run Amazing
Kenwood, all you need is to have the executable file somewere were your
path can locate it.
All possible errors have been trapped and you will be informed with a message
at the 25th line of your display.
-- HISTORY --
Version 1.0 - The original first version.
-- FUTURE PLANS --
I'm planning of adding the following in future releases:
DX database to log DX contacts.
Memory channel expansion option.
Voice option for the sight impaired.
-- BUGS AND COMMENTS --
The program has not been tested with the TS-711, TS-811, or TS-940.
Any feedback on the above mentioned HF rigs will be appreciated.
Please report any bugs, comments and or suggestions to:
Demetre Koymanakos
P.O.BOX 23039
Athens Greece
or by E-Mail to :
Internet demetre@intranet.gr
FidoNet 2:410/101
-- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
Since I'm only a SW listener, and I do not have an HF rig to perform the
needed test, all the beta tests were done with borrowed rigs, and I would
like to thank my Amateur friends who lended me their rigs for my tests.
-- QSL CARDS --
If you like this program, or even if you totally hate it, send me your
QSL card, or a plain post card telling me how much you like Amazing Kenwood
or how much you hate it !!
73's