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1. Adds a record to the logbook the record is supplied in ADIF format Used by PSK31 Deluxe Refresh REFR putton status Refreshes all buttons REFR dropdown List Refreshes all dropdown Set Button BUEN Burton title yalu Sets a button state For normal buttons the value 1s either on or off If title starts with then it s a dropdown the value must be a dropdown value Set Dropdown DROP button erele value Selects a dropdown value Set Frequency FREQ lt hertz gt Sets the frequency to the value supplied in Hertz Set Mode MODE mode Sets the mode to the supplied value Top Window TOPW Makes the HRD the top most window in the Z order in other words brings HRD to the front of your monitor DX Cluster Introduction A DX Cluster is a means for Amateur Ham Radio operators to tell each other in real time about DX stations other interesting or rare Amateur Radio stations all over the world From http www dxcluster org by Dirk Koopman GITLH One station is set up with Packet Cluster and is linked to one or more other stations who have installed the software These nodes when connected are called a cluster Clusters are connected to clusters expanding the network Individual users connect to the nodes on a frequency different from what the node stations are linked on Users are capable of announcing DX spots and related announcements send personal talk messages send and receive mai
2. MSG GENERAL typedef struct header lpFileName 32 dwDesiredAccess dwCreationDisposition dwloControlCode byInBuffer 604 dwloInBufferSize byOutBuffer 604 dwOutBufferSize dwBytesReturned dwFlags dwEvtMask aco timeouts hHandle bStatus sz5tatus 256 MSG HEADER header BOOL bStatus BYTE byData 4096 MSG GENERAL MSG COM READ typedef struct MSG HEADER HANDLE DWORD BYTE DWORD BOOL OVERLAPPED BYTE MSG COM READ MSG COM WRITE typedef struct MSG HEADER HANDLE DWORD DWORD OVERLAPPED BOOL BYTE MSG COM WRITE header hHandle dwNumberOfBytesToRead byTermChar dwNumberOfBytesRead Dotatus overlapped byData 4096 header hHandle dwNumberOfBytesToWrite dwNumberOfBytesWritten overlapped Dotatus byData 4096 Annex Remote Server e 137 Annex Settings Overview Registry Files User settings are stored in the registry and in files in the user s application specific data folder The registry key used for storing options in HRD is HKEY CURRENT USER Software Simon Brown HamRadioDeluxe Options The values in this key will not make much sense they are used by HRD to preserve settings such as window geometry size position and the current scheme The values in the key can be safely deleted at any time Don t change values with a registry editor you may cause unexpected problems for HRD HRD stores files in the folder def
3. The handbooks supplied by manufacturers can be wrong or just not contain enough information to successfully implement a command Data Formats There are major differences in the formats selected by the manufacturers whose radios are supported by Ham Radio Deluxe The Command Tester supports all necessary formats for the radio manufacturers supported by Ham Radio Deluxe Command Types There are two types of command Get and Set A Get command returns an item of information for example the VFO frequency or mode A Set command changes a rig setting typically the frequency or mode Command Tester supports both Get and Set commands To start the Command Tester e Make sure you have not connected to a radio with Ham Radio Deluxe if you will be using the same COM port for the Command Tester If you have a radio connection then you must disconnect using the Disconnect option in the File menu Annex Command Tester e 125 General Options e Select Command Tester from the Tools menu a CAT Command Tester Connection ICOM CI Y Command Ps iof a USE THIS DISPLAY AT YOUR OWN Y COMI 19200 B RISK lets JoTR L Rrs This display is used to test CAT commands outside of the main Ham Radio Deluxe framework The results can be saved to a text file for later analysis Connection select the type of command to be sent Elecraft ICOM CI V Kenwood Ten Tec or Yaesu Title Sent Received
4. Ham Radio Deluxe User Guide By Simon Brown HB9DRV January 28 2006 Contents Introduction 9 a E ee en 9 TM m ee ee lee ee ee 10 PODO 10 Requirements 11 COM Se a ee A nee les 11 DUDDOHEU RIO OOO E PON o II Ich RO et 11 Herta DEP oe cocto PP A 12 Installation 13 A 13 Ham Radio DES NUNT rc TRUM E 13 First Steps 17 rond me DD 17 Demo Icio 17 OPO aar eL bett E e a eee e bett en 17 A ee ee mes oes ede 18 What EN PP A A E 19 Radio Display 21 NAAT SUC UL A BESEANELERNEERE 21 Erequency Display ne E 22 Tonne Dial a en ee ne ee hte ce Bereh 23 Bine Tun np TTC 23 Man kun sense 23 Bana SCLC C10 a tds quiste Dit 23 Display erro tcm 25 Band Selecion aano ace 25 Date ON NI EMO TRE 25 BUNOS PAE PO 5 Pr PPER 26 DP E 26 A eee 26 Customise Layout 27 PETERS UT BIO DI a o M LOL IE ales eel o M Loi E Miel tet Dei ife 27 SCHEMES ae lee TT T OS 27 Ay Ole ee ee are 28 BONON A ee Po II ee 30 A MR RR 3l Mie CMOS ING NR RET o REN 32 E o o OE A EAA AEAT AS 33 Sliders a 8 615721 28 Cus o ctus nt Puta ee EU 34 viU ESTO RN TTE 34 ee OA Mc ee 35 Program Options 37 ENOJO tt RENTRER 37 IO A O AN 37 o A A E M 38 COM BOT ee RE 39 DOCS Pin een ee es ehren 39 IOMA SM ON een m 40 ak KB MN A POS pea A III II ES 40 Mo O 41 RN 42 Out CEBADA A Deere 42 IVIOGUSe WCC cdta 43 Sel condor 43 A A II A
5. lt When you start HRD a default logbook is created in the default files folder see Files on page 139 Options Select the database 1f the file you select does not exist then a new database is created Entries Date JEilter Exact L Summarise Sort um Max 10000 By Date y f And JIE Select the entries that are displayed Entries the maximum displayed in the main list The fewer you display the faster they are loaded The maximum you can display is 25 000 if you have more than 25 000 entries in your database then only the first 25 000 that match the selection criteria are displayed Date display entries since this date Typically you will only display entries from the last few days Filter filter by any field except dates for example mode or callsign Check Exact for an exact match Summarise display the first entry that matches the selection For example if you select Country and Band you see the first entry for each country and band Sort select the sort criteria alternatively click the column headers Print the logbook Select Print Setup from the File menu to select paper size layout etc Use Print preview first to see what it will look like Print preview see what your logbook looks like before you print it Print preview can be very CPU intensive with a large logbook 25 000 or more entries so be prepared
6. Comms COM Port TX Docking Panes ICOM Calibration Info Modes Info Options Internet Out OfBand Mouse Wheel Selection Window Toolbars Updates The options currently implemented for each radio For use by Ham Radio Deluxe developers to listthe implemented commands IC R20 CAT Command IC R75 Cmd AGO 03 Mir Cmd SD 04 Min Cmd 5H 02 Min Cmd SL 02 Min Cmd 15 04 Min Cmd KS 03 Min Cmd RM 01 00 01 t Cmd MG 03 Min Cmd NL 03 Min Cmd RL 02 Min Cmd RG 03 Min Cmd PC 03 Min Cmd PL 03 00 03 lv J Category Advanced Basic Advanced Basic Advanced Basic Advanced Basic Advanced Basic Advanced Basic Advanced Basic Advanced Basic Advanced Basic Advanced Basic Advanced Basic Advanced Basic Advanced Basic Option AF gain Break in delay DSP high cut DSP low cut IF shift Keyer speed Meter Mic gain Noise blanker Noise reduction HF gain RF power Speech proc in gt Mainly for use by the HRD programming team all commands are listed for each radio Supported Internet IC R8500 Enable Jupiter Qut Of Band K2 Enable K2 Demo In band NRD 535 Out of band Orion Mouse Wheel Orion Demo CW Fine PCR 1000 CV Hot R 5000 Other Fine RXx 350 Other Hot SDR 1000 Selection Window TS 1405 Advanced values TS 2000 Tree expand TS 2000 Demo Toolbars TS 4408 Font TS 4505 Updates Reminder Press Radio for a l
7. Configuring Select 3 Party Serial Port from the Tools menu w 3rd Party Serial Port Introduction Ham Radio Deluxe supports 3rd party programs such as logbooks via a virtual serial port An example of a virtual serial port is available from Phil Covington NWB this will be available from the Ham Radio Deluxe downloads page http rd ham radio ch dewnloads html when it has finished beta testing I Connect when Ham Radio Deluxe starts Pot COM i Reads n status 27 Dec 2005 17 43 04 COM Closed Enable opens the connection on the selected port in this case COM7 Check Connect to automatically open the connected everything HRD starts In the Port dropdown you select the COM port to use The Mode dropdown 1s reserved for future use The only option is Default And that s all there 1s to 1t Testing To test the connection e Start HyperTerminal supplied with Windows e Connect to COMS the virtual serial port used by the 3 party programs e Enter FA you will see a value such as FA00050100000 returned 50 1 MHZ Command Detail FA Reads and sets the VFO A frequency in Hz Set FA lt 11 digit frequency Read FA Answer FA lt 11 digit frequency FB Reads and sets the VFO B frequency in Hz Set Read Answer FB lt 11 digit rrequency FB FB lt 11 digit frequency IF Retrieves the transceiver status Read Answer Where Pl P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 P11 P12 P13 P1
8. Device Manager File Action View Help co 05398 3 lt RA Display adapters DVD CD ROM drives Floppy disk controllers ECP Printer Port The Device Manager lists all the hardware devices installed on your computer Use the Device Manager to change the properties Device Manager General Port Settings Driver Details Resources PR LPT1 Properties H A Floppy disk drives 3 Human Interface Devices IDE ATA ATAPI controllers IEEE 1394 Bus host contre a Keyboards Resource settings E ECP Printer Port LPT1 Be Mice and other pointing de Resource type Monitors WO Range 30 Multi port serial adapters WO Range 88 Network adapters DMA 4 Other devices Setting 0378 037F 0778 077B 03 4 Ports COM amp LPT Communications Port 4 ECP Printer Port LPT1 Processors SBP2 IEEE 1394 Devices o SCSI and RAID controllers Sound video and game cd Conflicting device Use automatic settings ist No conflicts Storage volumes In the Windows XP example below the base address 1s 0378 Various The options are Auto switch as the frequency displayed by Ham Radio Deluxe changes a lookup is made against the parallel port definitions and the parallel port switched to the configuration for the fir
9. ICOM Calibration Info Modes Info Options Internet Out Of Band Mouse Wheel Selection Window Toolbars Updates Defines the appearance oftoolbars Fant Connect Selection Favourite Show text Quick Save Full Screen Select the toolbar font and whether text 1s displayed in toolbars The default suggest font is Lucida Sans 7 point Updates Options COM Port TX RTS DTR Both None Docking Panes Appearance ICOM Calibration S Meter Info Modes Mapping Info Options Supported Internet Enable Out Of Band Enable In band Qut of band Mouse Wheel CW Fine CV Hot Other Fine Other Hot Selection Window Advanced values Tree expand Toolbars Reminder A Accelerators Comms COM Port TX Docking Panes ICOM Calibration j i Info Modes Info Options Internet Out Of Band Mouse Wheel Selection Window Toolbars Updates How often you are reminded to check for Ham Radio Deluxe updates Remind me to check for updates every O Day Month Check Now Select how frequently HRD reminds you to check for new updates Audio Introduction Audio Grabber HRD has a built in audio grabber and audio playback The long term aim is to automatically add audio clips into the logfile The audio grabber stores incoming audio in MP3 files using the MP3 tags to store information about the radio settings or
10. Memo Type Long Integer Date Time Date Time Text Date Time Date Time Memo Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Date Time Date Time Text Text Date Time Date Time Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Size 64 32 Size ADIF Columns Name PrimaryKey Title ADIF Comment QRZ Type Long Integer Text Text Text Size 32 64 When a QRZ lookup is made a copy of the returned data is stored in this table so that subsequent lookups are much faster The fields correspond to the fields extracted from the returned QRZ data Columns Name PrimaryKey ORZUpdated ORZCallsign QRZName QRZAddr1 QRZAddr2 QRZCountry QRZGrid QRZHomePage ORZQsIMgr Type Long Integer Date Time Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Size 255 255 255 255 255 255 255 255 Ideally HRD s logbook will support all ADIF fields The table below contains all ADIF fields as of ADIF spec 2 1 7 and the location in the Add Modify window This table is really a programmer s checklist to ensure essential fields are supported ADIF fields that have not yet been added have empty values in HRD Field Antenna and Satellite are combined into one dialog For ADIF information http groups yahoo com group aditdev files Location Antenna Antenna Antenna Contest Contest Contest Contest Depreciated In ADIF files In ADIF
11. Options Internet Out Of Band Mouse Wheel Selection Window Toolbars Updates Info Modes RTS DTR Both None Accelerators Comms COMPort TX Docking Panes ICOM Calibration Docking Panes L d N Jl A aida Mapping between the internal Ham Radio Deluxe Program modes and a radio For use by S Meter Ham Radio Deluxe developers to list mode support Info Modes Mapping uoces ete Status Program TS 480 CAT Command m e YOK AM AM MD5 Internet IC R8500 Enable Jupiter YOK AMIN AM MD5 MD3 Out Of Band K2 YOK OW CW Enable K2 Demo YOK CWN CW MD3 In band NRD 535 SOK CWR EWR MD Out of band Orion YOK CW R N CW R MD Mouse Wheel Orion Demo YOK DIG USB MD CW Fine OK FM FM MD4 CW Hot Y OK FMN FM MD4 Other Fine OK FSK FSK MDE Other Hot YOK FSK R FSK R MD3 Selection Window YOK LSB LSB MD1 MD2 Advanced values OK PKT USB Tree expand TS 2000 Demo YOK PSK USB MD2 v Toolbars TS 4405 B Font TS 4508 ui l Updates TS 480 v Program gt radio Radio gt program Reminder Mainly for use by the HRD programming team all modes for each radio are listed For each mode the mapping to the internal HRD mode is shown YYY ON YYY VY VY VY ow it uw w w ww wu tH ww wm wu gw HW M e v A om nm Info Options Options COM Port TX RTS DTR Both None Docking Panes Appearance ICOM Calibration S Meter Info Modes m Mappin Accelerators
12. RF power x Mic gain v VOX gain v VOX delay AN vw Keyer speed Breakin delay a Notes Changes are saved immediately Empty rows are not displayed Show hide sliders use View menu Clear All 4 Load Defaults Here you select the sliders to be displayed Define up to 6 layouts for example one layout for SSB and another for CW Tuning Dial A Customise Layout Schemes Layout Buttons Faceplate Frequency Meters Sliders Appearance Sliders Layout Tuning Dial Colours Background Title Options Title Clock Frequency Band Button Text Band Button Face Fine Line Fine Text Fine Inside Fine Hotspot Normal 80m Line Normal 80m Text Normal 80m Inside Active 40m Line Active 40m Text Active 40m Inside Active 40m Hotspot Fonts Title Options Title Clock Frequency Band Buttons Band Titles Band Frequency 24 D ber 2005 Options 08 51 20 Lg ay M Bu Z NO 2 Lg _ a LJ Ll Ce BEN M NA Ll IL Fir Fine ON OO LO A A epee EEE E EE EEES LE H 7 048 8 7 049 2 7 049 6 7 050 0 7 050 4 7 050 8 7 051 2 BSP 10m 15m 20m 40m 80m ppg pps gay Cece eir bes cle cls elie ce Ta Ta eeii a BLUE TU UL E UI ULISES OS OO SUS US ET RM IUD UA E I I I 7 000 7 025 BOSD 075 100 72125 FSO FAS E200 7 225 01 290 275 Align band buttons Horz Centre v Vert C
13. RS 10M1 Y ameeurbd http ww celestrak comMNORAD elements amateur bd RS 1273 RS 5 SICH 1 SO 33 SO 41 so SUN TO 31 UARS UO 11 LIO 14 UO 22 Uo 36 WO 10 WO 39 nd Last download 21 12 2005 20 0422 V Download when Satelite Tracking starts AMSAT Operahonsl gt gt E Download UOT AMSAT Semr perssonal gt gt The satellites window lists the files containing the Keplerian elements used to plot the position of satellites and compute the correct frequencies for the uplink and downlink The default folder is Satellites located below the folder where you have installed HRD for example C Program Files Amateur Radio Ham Radio Deluxe Satellites To change the folder just press Select It is recommended that you update the data files in the Satellites folder when you start using Ham Radio Deluxe as the files shipped in the kits will be out of date by the time you start to use them These files should ideally be refreshed every few days If you check the Download when Satellite Tracking starts option then the files are downloaded every time you start satellite tracking To download the latest Kepler data files press Download The files are downloaded to the folder containing your satellite data To edit the list of files press Edit List The file is HRD Satellite List txt in the folder Satellites folder Example The entries below are downloaded using the Satellites page in the Satel
14. and mode e P1 00 P2 00 P3 00 P4 00 OpCode 03 The format of the returned data is 5 bytes the first four containing the frequency in binary coded decimal followed by the mode The returned value is 00 35 78 15 00 which corresponds to a frequency 00 35 78 15 of 51 875 300 and a mode 00 of LSB Read RX The opcode is E7 P1 P4 can have any value in this example they are set status to 00 e P1 00 P2 00 P3 00 P4 00 OpCode E7 The format of the returned data is 1 byte The returned value is 00 Read TX The OpCode is F7 P1 P4 can have any value in this example they are status set to 00 e P1 00 P2 00 P3 00 P4 00 OpCode F7 The format of the returned data is 1 byte The returned value is FF not in TX mode Other Commands For the commands you want to investigate e Select the option on your rig using the rig buttons and controls e Enter a value in the Command Tester Title field that corresponds to the option you are investigating e Referring to your rig s handbook enter the P1 P4 parameters and OpCode as appropriate to read the rig s current value or set a new Annex Command Tester e 131 value If there are no values specified for P1 P4 then enter 00 in these fields e Press Send Annex Portmon Introduction This excellent utility for monitoring COM port activity can be downloaded from http www sysinternals com Quoting the Sysinternals website Portmon is a utility that monito
15. cave n Save connection information to a file E EP Press Connect If the connection is successful the text is displayed Username password authenticated Select a remote COM port then press OK o Remote Connection Connectto a computer running the HAD Remote Access Program 1 Remote Computer Connection 2 Remote COM Port Address 2014212114 COMI J Port 7805 Default 7805 Username Simon tias Ku v Save settings Save Connected to 201 42 12 114 7605 username password authenticated Select a remote COM Port then press OK Now select the COM port and then press OK to connect to the remote COM port and start the HRD radio display When the connection with the radio has been confirmed a Remote Connection display window shows you the data throughput and average round trip time Fo Remote Connection Send Meee 0 34KB s Recy 0 55 KB s Remote Connection Fo Remote Connection Send tm 0 30 KB s Recv 0 54 KB s Round triptime e lt Ems Refresh interval Send frequency S Async Syne Regularly Read From Radio v Frequency v Dropdowns Iv Meters Sliders e Buttons e Status texts Refresh All a Help Use the Remote Connection window to show the status of the remote connection e Round trip time the time required to send a message from HRD to the remote server and get a response This will be very similar to the value shown
16. contains many designs for both CAT and COM Part EE yj rue for use with Ham Radio Radio 1C 7000 Speed 119200 Y Company CrvAdd 70 Select your radio manufacturer from the l drop down list The Dem o Matic radios do not require a COM port they are for demonstrating HRD when you do not have crs MDTR MEETS a suitable radio available Flow control Interface power FlexRadio you must install the virtual serial ort drivers from Philip Covington NSVB When you press Connect the Remote Connection window is displayed gt Remote Connection Connectto a computer running the HAD Remote Access Program 1 Remote Computer Connection 2 Remote COM Port Address 201 42 12 114 Port 7805 Default 7805 Username Simon Password e Load Connect v Save settings Enter the remote computer connection information then press Connect NIC Enter connection information e Address the remote computer address in either numeric or alphabetic form for example 195 154 179 101 or www simon home ch e Port the port assigned to the remote service usually 7805 e Username a valid username defined in the configuration file This is case insensitive e Password the password corresponding to the username This is case insensitive e To save these values make sure the Save settings option is checked X Load connection information from a file
17. st of all supported radios To display the commands l Selecta radio 2 Press Viewer P IC 703 Supported Commands txt Notepad File Edit Format View Help Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Packet RTTY Packet RTTY Packet RTTY Various Various Various Various Various Compression IF shift Meter Mic gain NB level NR level RF gain RF power Squelch Break in Break in delay Carrier point Contact no style Key speed Key type Keyer ratio Keyer repeat Keyer tx ind Keying polarity Pitch Side tone level Side tone limit 9600 bps Marker freq Shift width Anti VOX gain Beep band Beep enable Beep level Beep limit 14 0F 1A 03 05 1A 03 22 14 0C 1A 03 18 1A 03 19 1A 03 20 1A 03 21 1A 03 16 14 09 1A 03 06 1A 03 07 1A 03 08 1A 03 14 1A 03 15 1A 03 10 1A 03 02 1A 03 01 1A 03 03 1A 03 04 cOOOOO 000 OONOOHNOSOOOHO Oooooooococoo Program Options e 41 Internet Options COM Port TX Accelerators Comms COMPor TX Docking Panes ICOM Calibration Info Modes None Info Options Internet Out Of Band Mouse Wheel Selection Window
18. v Alt v Ctr Assigned Alt N Ctrl Alt O Ctrl c Ctrl x space Reserved Alt A Alt Ctrl D Alt Ctrl F1 Alt Ctrl F2 Alt Ctrl U Ham Radio Deluxe Option Alt K Arrow Keys E y 2 QuUp ODown Let Bight Ctrl F Ctrl F5 HRD Button Ctrl Fb Ctrl F8 Grex Tunel Ctrl M NES Ctrl N Here Ctrl Alt W is assigned to the Tune button Keyboard combinations are assigned to display buttons and arrow keys The HRD menu has pre assigned accelerators these cannot be redefined Options Comms Info Options Internet Out Of Band Mouse Wheel Selection Window Toolbars Updates Dual yFO Tracking Accelerators Comms COMPort TX Docking Panes ICOM Calibration Info Modes RX Timeout z Switch Off Polling Communications options restartto apply new values COM Port TX RTS DTR Both None Read Timeout r Docking Panes Specifies the maximum time in milliseconds allowed to Appearance elapse between the arrival of two characters on the ICOM Calibration communications line S Meter Info Modes Mapping Info Options supported Switch Off Dual VFO Tracking Internet Enable V Promptto switch off the Track dual VFOs every refresh not suitable for Out Of Band radio when closing if slow comms connection Recommended for Enable supported by the radio satellite tracking In band Out of band Mouse Wh
19. 07 Set mode to USB 01 00 00 00 07 SPLLE OI bue SD FT 1000MP Set mode to LSB 3 00 00 00 00 0C Set mode to USB uf 00 0000520150 EDITO QI esters treet ues SU Te You can define more than one command to do this start each command on a new line Special Commands Comment Some interesting text Pause of 250 ms 250 Input field macros are combinations of fields on the HRD radio display Users of Microsoft Office will be familiar with the concept supported here Manager Select Macros Manager from the Macros menu and then press New to create a new macro This macro will switch your radio to 50 150 MHz in USB First we will set the mode to USB e In the Title field enter 50 150 MHz USB e Inthe Group field enter Macros Simple e Inthe Description field enter Change frequency to 50 150 MHz mode to USB e Press Add to select Dropdown Button Mode USB LAM Macro Editor Add Field Select a definition and value then press OK L 14 235 000 MHz O Frequency O Band Layout 180m 10m Region 1 Y O Standard Button A B v Switch SON OFF Always 8 Dropdown Button Mode USB O Advanced Slider AF gain Y A Value 0 Y O Delay millisecs MO e Press OK Now set the frequency to 50 150 000 e Press Add to select Frequency 50 150 000 MHz Macro Editor Add Field Select a definition and value then pres
20. Connect To connect to your radio you must select COM port where you have connected the interface cable to the radio The baud rate COM port speed If you are not sure of the correct speed consult your radio manual CTS used for flow control specifies whether the CTS clear to send signal is monitored for output flow control Used by Kenwood DTR used either for flow control or to provide power for the CAT interface This depends on the manufacturer s protocol and your CAT interface RTS used either for flow control or to provide power for the CAT interface This depends on the manufacturer s protocol and your CAT interface Then press Connect When you press Connect a warning message is displayed Using incorrect commands can confuse some radios so if you are not sure what you are doing now is the time to leave Command Tester Warning A Sending invalid commands can result in loss of stored data and or require you to reset your radio Use this display at your own risk Simon Brown is not liable for any damage caused Continue Press Yes to continue These options are common to all formats Results Platforms e Send sends a command to the radio e Erase clears the contents of the results window e Save saves the contents of the results to a file in ASCII format You can send the contents of this file by email to help the developers of ham Radio Deluxe e Help pressing help displays the cont
21. Connection 17 Countries 142 CSIDL APPDATA 139 CTS 18 Current Data 111 Customise Layout 27 Date amp Time 25 DDE 116 DDE Server 116 DDE Support 57 Dem o matic 17 Display Scroll 25 Docking Panes 39 Dropdowns 26 DTR 18 DX Cluster 59 Eddystone EA12 9 Elecraft 11 84 86 127 Faceplate 31 Favourites 65 Markers 67 Filter 129 Fine Tuning 23 FlexRadio 11 Frequency 32 Frequency Display 22 Frequency range 54 FT 817 109 FT 817 Commander 9 FT 847 108 Griffin Powermate 37 Ground Control 105 HRDRemoteSvr cfg 92 IC 703 9 IC 910H 108 ICOM 11 85 108 128 ICOM Calibration 40 Info Modes 40 Info Options 41 Installation 13 InstallShield 150 Interfacing 12 Internet 42 Johannes Kepler 101 KIEL 75 Kenwood 11 84 Keplerian elements 101 Layout 28 Linear Transponders 109 Linux 149 Locator 98 Logbook 142 Logbook Database 141 Long path 98 LPT1 50 LPT2 50 LPT3 50 Macintosh 149 Macros 83 Main Tuning 23 Meters 33 Mode 129 Modes 142 Mouse Wheel 43 MP3 45 46 MP3 Player 47 Mutual Visibility 112 N8VB 121 Next Passes 114 NORAD 101 Index e 151 Observer 104 ODBC tracing 72 OH2AQ 59 Out Of Band 42 Parallel port 49 Performance 72 PHPIPH 9 Plot 115 Portmon 133 Program Options 37 ORZ 143 Quick Save 89 Markers 89 Radio Display 21 Record 45 Registry 139 Remote Connection 95 Remote Server 91 135 Ro
22. Database and WinKey Select whichever visual theme you want XP 1s an acceptable default You can also use this theme when a docking frame is floating not docked Program Options e 39 ICOM Calibration Info Modes Options COM Port TX Info Options Internet OutOf Band Mouse Wheel Selection Window Toolbars Updates Accelerators Comms COMPortTX Docking Panes ICOM Calibration Info Modes RTS DTR Both None Docking Panes Ap Li f ICOM e S Meter calibration ICOM only The value read from the radio is between 0 and 255 this must S Meter be calibrated for the radio model selected below Info Modes Mapping Info Options Supported Internet Enable Qut Of Band Enable In band Qut of band Mouse Wheel Ow Fine CV Hot Other Fine Other Hot Selection Window Advanced values e Tree expand Toolbars Font Updates Reminder Restore Default Note Changes are applied immediately The IC 06 and IC 706MkIl do not support the S meter ICOM radios return a S Meter value between 0 and 255 normally 0 is SO 12 1s Sl and so on As a S Meter unit is 6 dB the algorithm applied is to divide the returned value by two to get dB then divide dB by 6 to get S units Some radios such as the IC 706 have a different logic use the Offset and Scale values to adjust the returned values so that the S Meter in HRD corresponds to the S Meter on your radio Options COM Port TX Info
23. Dec 20 19 Strong in GA Dec Dec Dec Dec cq on beacon fb idea Dec 10 0 IZ5EK 599 Dac Dex Dex Der Der HF 17 kHZ MHZ 2 2 MHz 7 MHZ ZS6DN B MHZ DL7JRD 24940 MHz ZSB5DN B 24930 18 MHz TA 24950 0 MHZ MHz MHZ 28 MHZ 18 MHZ AJ Uca 3 9 C9 C9 O amp 59 in VJ 24950 0 S9 on my RB strong and Easy TH74 55 59 Bruce in JN59 fb sigs nw DIM 24950 0 72 UA4WHX 24895 0 VHE VHE zZ7 UA4MWHX 24895 50 MHZ 50 MHZ z2 UA4WHX 24895 2 8 Dec 70 MHz 70 MHZ 2 UAAWH 4895 2 8 Dec 144 MHz 144 MHz 22 UAAWMX 3 Dec 20 MHz 2 Y es u Dec 22 20 MHz 430 MHZ 430 MHZ eve a GHz 2 GHz dem A 2 3 GHZ 2 GHZ 22 UASWHX Dec 3 4 GHz 3 4 GHZ ZO7 VC 0 8 Dec 13 55 HAIRW are ning but chatting style 6 GHZ 3 6 GHZ Z2 UAdWH 9 Der 754 OK2PAY 10 GHz GHz Z2 UAAWH Dei 49 ITIFGA w ROC se Beam To CO simple gt I D wu uu ov un d tc J h3 NN I wh hhh ea Seana SD nm A Es 00 09 00 ut ui vum in HH v a cw A J In oo o 24 GHZ 4 GHZ 72 0 Dec 13 50 SP47 heavy QSB on 12m from NEofEU 47 GHz 4 GHZ ZO 8 Dec 13 48 DF2UU cq Announce Announce El UAG o Dec 13 IZSEKV ISO Few wey WCY Z2 UA 8 Dec 13 46 OElONC Way Ww Z2 UASWHX Dec 13 4 GE7CGL Starting Select DX Cluster from the Tools menu HRD Top 50 DX spots on ALL Refresh 5 seconds EE DX Spotter Comment 4Z5ML Qatar CQ A7 1BX P E MHz GOC
24. Defaults Schemes 7 AKIG Peter s Persuasion Scheme 1 AKIG TS 480 Plastic Blue Army Surplus Plastic Green Danielle s Amberglow Plastic Kahki Danielle s Blues Plastic Orange Danielle s Borgcube Traditional Danielle s Liquorice W9ZO Danielle s Redeye W9Z0 LC Danielle s ts 2000 W9Z0 LCD Danielle s ts 480 Danielle s uv Dark Save to File Default Ginger Greyfriars Igor th Thpethial LCD Light Matt NSQQF N P 2 s HRD Colour Scheme Night Vision Nowt Oranges and Lemons PD5DP Blues PG5S Icom Schemes are pre defined customizations created by author and by other HRD users There are four default schemes shipped with HRD Scheme 1 3 and the System Default The HRD team and the HRD users have created the other schemes Special thanks to Danielle in Northallerton UK Customise Layout e 27 Layout Select a default scheme by pressing the scheme button or select an entry and press Select select one of the other schemes by double clicking on the entry in the Schemes list To save the current layout press Save you will be prompted for a Scheme name Use Rename and Delete to organise the available schemes A Customise Layout Schemes Layout Buttons Faceplate Frequency Meters Sliders Appearance Sliders Layout Tuning Dial Click on a button to select new text change the colour and or move the button to a new position Hide dropdowns Hide status texts fe 14 235 000 mm pe es
25. Lat Lon Name ZIP Equipment SIG SIG info State Street Power Age Operator call Email Owner call Equipment SIG SIG info t b a Operator Operator Propagation Propagation Propagation Propagation Propagation Propagation Propagation QSL Info QSL Info QSL Info QSL Info QSL Info QSL Info QSL Info QSL Info satellite satellite t b a t b a t b a t b a t b a t b a t b a t b a t b a t b a t b a t b a t b a t b a t b a SIATION CALLSIGN TEN TEN WEB A INDEX K INDEX MAX BURSTS MS SHOWER NR BURSTS NR PINGS PROP MODE QSL RCVD QSL RCVD VIA QSL SENT QSL SENT VIA QSL VIA QSLMSG QSLRDATE QSLSDATE SAT MODE SAT NAME BAND RX FORCE INIT FREQ RX NOTES PFX PUBLIC KEY QSO COMPLETE QSO RANDOM RX PWR SFI SRX SRX STRING STX STX STRING SWL 10 10 URL A index K index Max bursts MS shower Num bursts Num pings Prop mode QSL Recv QSL Sent QSL Via QSL Recv QSL Sent Mode Name Annex Logbook Database e 145 Annex Links HRD Homepage http hrd ham radio ch Forums http forums ham radio ch Yahoo Mailing list http groups yahoo com group ham radio deluxe Other Software BV Software by DF3CN http www df3cb com Excellent QSL management and label printing software DXLab by Dave Bernstein AA6YQ http www qsl net dxlab IrfanView http www irfanview com Great image viewer and sound
26. Off Fast Medium and Slow only one of which will be active at any one time If Buttons is not enabled for regular refreshes then pressing Fast will not update the other AGC buttons In this case you must press the small refresh button to the right of the Buttons check box To refresh all display options click Refresh All Rotator Introduction Main Window SS _ lt A _ BP EA A A moll er US i 4 Va a he A 4 mor a i What better way to spend money than on a nice set of antennas for your Satellite Tracking array or how about a nice 4 element yagi for 80m Whichever solution you chose HRD has the support you need To open the rotator window select Rotator from the Tools menu so g Presets Map 3 Short y 2 Par i Don Double click to apply I074th 316 0 Simon Right click for menu 1311 United States of Americ vil pat o 8 Don alco M AZ 1790 EL 900 Az 238 6 HRD supports both azimuth only as well as Azimuth Elevation rotators such as the excellent AIfaSPID To get started press Options page 998 To change the current bearing either e Enter the new bearing in the Horizontal field and press lt e Enter the locator of the station and press Ix Rotator e 97 Options e Select a country from the Country dropdown list and press Ix e Select a preset or e Double click on the world map Press Park to park the rotator To select a
27. PURGE COMM MSG CMD SET COMM STATE MSG CMD SET COMM TIMEOUTS MSG CMD READ FILE MSG CMD READ FILE EX 9 co Na OI MSG CMD WRITE FILE SYNC 10 MSG CMD CLOSE HANDLE All MSG CMD WRITE FILE ASYNC 12 E7 Structures The structures used are shown below All members are byte aligned All commands start with the structure typedef struct UINT nSize Total command size UINT nHead EF 4 bytes HRD UINT nCmd Command index MSG HEADER e nSize the total size in bytes of the message being sent e nHead 4 bytes of sanity HRD e nCmd a command from the table below Command Structure MSG CMD AUTHENTICATE MSG AUTHENTICATE MSG CMD CLOSE HANDLE MSG COM PORT MSG CMD CREATE FILE MSG COM PORT MSG CMD DEVICE IO CONTROL MSG COM PORT MSG CMD GET COM PORTS MSG GENERAL MSG CMD PURGE COMM MSG COM PORT MSG CMD READ FILE MSG COM READ MSG CMD READ FILE EX MSG COM READ MSG CMD SET COMM MASK MSG COM PORT MSG CMD SET COMM STATE MSG COM PORT MSG CMD SET COMM TIMEOUTS MSG COM PORT MSG CMD WRITE FILE ASYNC MSG COM WRITE MSG CMD WRITE FILE SYNC MSG COM WRITE MSG AUTHENTICATE typedef struct MSG HEADER header BOOL bAuthenticated char szUsername 64 char szPassword 64 char svzotatusL5l121s MSG AUTHENTICATE MSG COM PORT typedef struct MSG HEADER char DWORD DWORD DWORD BYTE DWORD BY AB DWORD DWORD DWORD DWORD DCB COMMTIMEOUTS HANDLE BOOL char MSG COM PORT
28. Title 160m Ragchew Frequency 1 935 000 MHz Mode LSB v Enter the title frequency and mode and then press OK The new definition is added to the current folder You can also select Add from the Favourites menu to add a new definition Del delete the current folder or definition depending on which you have selected Move move an entry to another folder alternatively drag entries between folders with your mouse m Browse for Folder Click the folder that you wantto move the selected entry to CX Favourites 3 160m Ca 80m 2 3 kim ey UK 3 US Ca 40m Ci 20m C 15m Select the new folder then press OK Copy make a copy of an existing definition Edit edit the selected folder definition Arrows rearrange the selected folder definition Load load a new set of definitions from a file previously created using HRD all current definitions are discarded Merge merge definitions from a file previously created using HRD Defaults restore the default list hard coded into HRD Save save current definitions to a file Markers To display markers in the HRD display select Show Markers from the Favourites menu The marker size is selected from the Marker Size option in the Favourites menu 19 050 if deo ff id if ie The popup text is displayed as you move the mouse pointer over a marker The text is constructed from the favourite title and frequency Fa
29. Toolbars Updates Docking Panes Blocs ICOM Calibration S Meter Info Modes Mapping Enable internet access DX Cluster Check for Updates etc Info Options Supported Appearance r gt Internet Access Options Enable Out Of Band Enable In band Out of band Mouse Wheel CW Fine Cw Hot Other Fine Other Hot Selection Window Advanced values Tree expand Toolbars Font Updates Reminder HRD is able to detect whether you have an Internet connection with InternetGetConnectedState Uncheck this option if you do not want Internet access Out Of Band A Options COM Port TX Accelerators Comms COMPor TX Docking Panes ICOM Calibration Info Modes ET EHut NOna Info Options Internet OutOfBand Mouse Wheel Selection Window Toolbars Updates Docking Panes Appearance E M ICOM Calibration Defines the Out Of Band warnings S Meter l Info Modes Mapping Info Options Supported Internet Enable ding waw Out Of Band In band Out of band z Mouse Wheel Out of band wave file OW Fine chord wawv Cw Hot Other Hot Selection Window Advanced values Tree expand Toolbars Font Updates Reminder In band wawve file Configure the optional sound files played when you tune in out of band Mouse Wheel Options COM Part TX RTS DTR Both None Do
30. USB e t MDZ set AF gain Lo U ssi AGOUGO Set AF gain to 100 AGOLOO oelecp WEOSB essers EII You can define more than one command to do this start each command on a new line Special Commands Comment Some interesting text Pause OF 250 ms ws 4 250 ICOM ICOM radios use the CI V format to communicate with the radio Please read your operating manual for command information Each entry defined here consists of e 1 command e 2 optional sub command and e 3 optional data You must add a between each byte each byte is two hexadecimal characters IC 7800 oer Mode To NOB a a 5 set mode To USE nica Verl Ser AR GO asias wei ded dU select preamp 2 rss 19 92 02 MOD I P data off MIC 1A 05 00 31 00 MOD I P data off SPDIF 1A 05 00 31 07 You can define more than one command to do this start each command on a new line Special Commands Comment Some interesting text Pause of 250 ms 250 Ten Tec In general Ten Tec commands are two character commands followed by data and a carriage return cr or lt 0x0d gt Do NOT add the carriage return this is added automatically Some data must be sent in binary format hexadecimal is used to represent binary data To set Split mode on for the Argonaut the documented command is O lt 0x01 gt lt 0x0d gt which is entered here as Ox01 that is O Split mode x switch to binary 01 Split On The carriage retur
31. a AY x D gam hh M Print Preview Add Analysis Grid Plot Refresh Fit Widths Layout Backup Configure D Temp Simon New DB mdb 468 KB Entries Date FEiter Exact Summarise Sort Max 10000 v By Date f C And Y f Date Start End Station Band Mode Sent Recv Name 5 29 10 2004 13 09 13 09 A61AJ l m USB 59 59 ALI AL FUTTAIM 29 10 2004 13 08 13 08 5B ON9CIB l m USB 59 59 Igor Booklan 1129 10 2004 10 45 10 45 UR9MC l m USB 59 EN OLEXIY KUDIMOV E Zor 10 2004 12 20 12 20 ODS5NH 10m USB 59 59 PUZANT AZIRIAN 19 10 2004 07 30 07 38 HB3YGH 2m EM Andre 10 10 2004 11 13 11 13 UX FF P 17m USB 59 59 NIKOLAY LAVREKA 29 09 2004 20 46 20 52 MOMCX 40m LSB Si 59 Callum McCormick gt 20 09 2004 08 10 08 16 DL HB9PMF 40m LSB 35 S Hans 20 09 2004 08 10 08 10 HB9CKVY 40m LSB 59 59 Hans 18 09 2004 14 50 14 50 UNT7PCZ 17m USB 59 59 ALEXANDER LEBEDE 12 09 2004 16 11 16 11 D4B 15m USB 59 006 59 3121 Alexander Teimur 1270972004 15 52 13252 5727 15m USB 59 005 59 2270 12 09 2004 14 14 14 14 TU2CI 15m USB 59 004 59 328 ARAI ASSOCIATION 11 09 2004 20 54 20 54 9K2HN 40m LSB 59 003 59 1428 HAMAD AL NUSIF 11 09 2004 20 39 20 39 D4B 20m USB 59 002 59 2023 Alexander Teimur 11 09 2004 20 36 20 36 LU2FA 20m USB 59 001 59 748 ROBERTO MARINESC 05 09 2004 11 56 11 56 ONGUD P 40m LSB 59 034 59 555 05 09 2004 11 54 11 54 DKOED P 40m LSB 59 033 59 562 05 09 2004 11 31 11 31 DLOOS P 40m LSB 59 032 59 737 ge i l v
32. above Mapper Source code for Mapper slowly being replaced with Google Earth PSK31 Deluxe and Google Maps Source for PSK31 Deluxe PSKCorel19 The PSK31 engine copyright 2000 Moe Wheatley AE4JY Licence is not needed Release All executable code compiled in release mode this is shipped to end users RemoteSvr The source code for the HRD Remote Server Workspace Contains the Microsoft VisualStudio workspace HamRadio dsw To compile HRD you need Visual C version 6 0 from Microsoft There is no reason to use a later version such as Visual Studio 2005 as by all accounts the user interface is less friendly and the compiler is slower To build kits you need InstallShield DevStudio 9 As this version can no longer be purchased you will have to buy the latest version available Note that you will need licences for the products listed in Source Code on page 149 e ComponentOne Chart e Codejock Software s Xtreme Toolkit Pro e Ultimate Toolbox To rebuild e Open the workspace e Build all Win32 Release configurations e Build the kit Index 3 Party Programs 121 Accelerators 37 AlfaSPID 97 AMSAT 101 Archive 140 Archiving 140 Audio 45 Audio Browser 46 Audio Grabber 45 Auxiliary Switching 49 Band Layouts 53 Band Selection 25 Bands 141 Building 150 Buttons 26 30 CAT Commands 83 CI V 128 CI V Address 18 COM Port 18 COM Port TX 39 Command Tester 125 Comms 38 Connecting 18
33. any other information you feel to be important An alternative to MP3 would be Windows Media format WMA but the programming of WMA files 1s rather complex To display the audio grabber select Audio Grabber from the Tools menu Record F Audio Grabber Record Folder Quality Soundcard Tags LO 00 07 Size 13KB Rate 1 8 KB s File limit 30 minutes v HRD 2005 12 28 175102 mp3 Here you have the standard recording buttons From left to right e Record e Stop e Reset current recoding e Restart close current file first e Browse for MP3 files You also set a file limit a downside of MP3 1s that the tags are written at the end of the file when it 1s closed so to avoid losing information in the event of an unexpected event it is best to use more smaller files Audio e 45 Folder Y Audio Grabber Record Folder Quality Soundcard Tags CADacuments and Settingsssimany amp pplication Data Simon Brown Audio Changes are applied when you start recording Here you select the folder where the MP3 files are stored Quality Audio Grabber Folder Quality Soundcard Bandwidth 4 5 kHz 2 KB s Higher bandwidth larger file Quality Changes are applied when you start recording Defaults Here you select the bandwidth and quality Modern computers have more than enough CPU power to support a very high quality A bandwidth of 4 5 kHz is usua
34. asien 95 A BUT NR EO DRE ae ee E VERMES 96 Rotator 97 inf ESSI On AA TOT A UU ML 97 Main WOW a area RE ABER 97 ODON c 98 CONECO NEU NN LT c rcc 98 ELI NORUNT cwm 98 A A A E atado e ch ER EURE ut beh 99 LO EN E UN DR NR 99 Satellite Tracking 101 Muodon RR ERR 101 A ML T 101 SSE Ci puerto tactum onto ftadeu anat Ubstdis baies eae tau E ecd oU NER GENRE 104 Ground Controlan 105 Aro MEN A O 105 Kenwood ES 2000 00d 107 A AN 108 E A A II PE PORE PORE IUE 108 AAA een 109 Linear Tras ponderada een 109 Frequeney RESONON ersten 110 A ee 110 A II O DD ELLE ALIA OE 111 o A TM TT RR 111 Tabu NETS PEE ots 52355 sass acne A ei A 112 A A ee ee eee 113 INK ae a eS a eee See 114 Sole Piss ae ee 114 A TE en ea eam oe 115 DD LM DE uM I Ve A IM M E E 116 Synchroniser 117 Fit EOCIUIC ELO DES oco eto sete ot bec esed to iere rear 117 A nee eh Pee et A ee eee 117 Dual Radio Satellite Tracking nn ann 118 3 Party Programs 121 AN T TO TNT S PR EEUU E Tar ae mee ere 121 A RN T a Ben 122 A opo e EOM 122 Command Dll dad 122 Annex Command Tester 125 A ee E a a a 125 Too Many IR AGIOS steve ot eei tata 125 Command TyDES o ode ui een n LU Lec Lu ARP 125 SATIN Oele 125 E A O IN 126 ESAS bau ctus Et een 126 AA ERRARE VERA RE A IN arate ose lta NEE RERO PNE 127 A ee engsten ee ee ee ee 127 BOOP ascetic A IN A O A NER 127 AD
35. can be saved to a text file for later analysis MD6 MD ed NU non Connection Wait for rx terminator z The logic and fields are the same as those in the main HRD P Send Erase Save Help Connect window Received Read VFO OK 2 OK FA00007035000 Read mode OK OK MD1 Read S meter OK j OK SM0000 Change mode to RTTY read mode OK MD OK MD6 Change mode to RTTY read mode hex OK OK lt 0x4D gt lt 0x44 gt lt 0x36 gt lt 0x3B gt Annex Command Tester e 127 In the Change mode to RTTY example above the returned string is shown in both ASCII and hexadecimal because the Show hex output option was selected for this command Fields e Title a description of the command you are testing for example Read Frequency or read Mode Mandatory e Cmd the ASCII string sent to the rig Elecraft strings are terminated with a e Wait for rx terminator when reading the response read characters from the rig until this character is returned or a timeout occurs Examples Test Description Read Frequency Command is FA returned data format is FA 11 digits e FA00007035000 Frequency is 7 035 000 MHz Read Mode Command is MD returned data format is MD 1 digit e MDI 1 LSB 2 USB 3 CW 6 RTTY 7 CW REV 9 RTTY REV Read S Meter Command is SM returned data format is SM 4 digits e SM0000 Returned value is in the range 0000 to 0015 ICOM CI V Th
36. copyright KIEL Photos from http www klel com KIEL s WinKey is an excellent computer controllable keyer solution It supports everything a CW enthusiast could want Many computer programs support WinKey here is a description of the HRD support You will need a standard 9 pin serial cable not NULL modem Select KIEL WinKey from the Tools menu the WinKey window is displayed HI BARRY THANKS FOR COMING BACK TO MY CALL 1 CQ UR PST 599 599 IN SUNNY L 2 eather KIEL WinKey e 75 Here the user is sending text at 12 wpm the speed is adjusted with the slider in the top left If Repeat 1s checked the text 1s retransmitted after a user configurable value between 2 to 60 seconds in this example 5 seconds Text 1s entered using the keyboard only the allowable CW characters can be entered Macros are selected by double clicking on an entry in the macros list or by using an accelerator key combination such as Ctrl 1 Press F2 to start sending Winkey e I2wpm Macro Cri HI BARRX THANKS FOR COMING BACE TO MY CALL mii ca UR EST 599 599 IN SUNNY LAAX Repeat Weather sending Full HI BARRY THANE Characters sent to the keyer are marked with the strikethrough effect Characters sent by the keyer to the radio are displayed at the bottom of the window Press F1 to mark sent text as unsent F3 to erase the contents of the window Options Press the Options bu
37. design came from a variety of sources Internet Explorer especially the Favourites my old Eddystone EA12 and a desire to prove that Peter and myself could develop something better than the current not quite so free and fantastic products being peddled to radio amateurs On December 23 2005 the number of registered users stood at 20 006 quite an achievement in such a short time Very sadly Peter passed away on June 8 2005 His contribution to Ham Radio Deluxe will never be forgotten Ham Radio Deluxe v3 3 Beta Dedicated to build 958 Peter Halpin PH1PH Copyright 2003 2005 by Simon Brown HBSDRY Introduction e 9 This Guide Sponsors Kevin Crockett VK3CKC wrote the original user guide Now that HRD is a more mature product the time has come to write the document you are currently reading Thank you for reading this guide and before you ask it s written in British English with plenty of my favourite colours despite Word s attempts to change the spelling If you are only going to read one more section then now go to Radio Display on page 21 Please report errors and omissions to simon hb9drv ch or in the HRD forums page 147 To help keep HRD free for all Amateurs and SWL s several companies have helped by sponsoring the HRD development If I have missed your company please let me know And a very big thank you to everybody when has lent radios to Peter and myself so that we have been ab
38. drop down list COM Port The COM port on this computer where you have connected the radio interface cable Make sure that you do not have other programs using the same port for example mobile phones and personal organisers Select Auto detect to try all available ports Speed The speed used for communicating with the radio check the speed setting via the radio s configuration menu Select Auto detect to try all available speeds CI V Address ICOM only the address assigned to the radio consult the radio s handbook for the default address This can also be configured via the radio s configuration menu CTS Enables the CTS flow control required for Kenwood radios DTR Enables the DTR line when the COM Port is opened and leaves it on usually to provide power for an interface cable For Yaesu CT 62 and ICOM CT 17 interfaces this can be left unchecked off RTS Enables the RTS line when the COM Port is opened and leaves it on usually to provide power for an interface cable For Yaesu CT 62 and ICOM CT 17 interfaces this can be left unchecked off Connecting Press Start to connect to the radio If you see the error below then the COM port is currently held open by another program e IC 7800 COMI 19200 Access is denied Make sure your radio is switched on and not in memory mode If you are using a homemade non standard cable you may need to select RTS and or DTR Check that you have not started another
39. file player Annex Links e 147 Annex Building HRD Overview Source Code HRD is a Windows only program please do not ask for the source code for porting to other platforms such as Linux or the Macintosh Not only are there legal reasons see below it s also a technical waste of time It would be much easier to start from scratch than try to port the code The information here is provided for anyone who takes over the development and maintenance of HRD for whatever reason Note that commercial programming libraries have been used this saves a lot of time and provides a much better look and feel The root folder is Jam Radio containing the folders in the table below Folder Description Alerter Source for the Alerter module used by the satellite tracking The Alerter is a standalone executable that announces upcoming satellite passes APEX Contains Olectra Chart 6 0 6 now owned by http www componentone com and called ComponentOne Chart A license is required to use the contents of this folder for development the olch2d32 dll DLL can be redistributed boost 1 20 1 The boost library proves regular expression support used in PSK31 Deluxe CD Image The CD Image which contains a full HRD distribution containing absolutely everything except the source Codejock Xtreme Toolkit Pro a fine programming library from Software http www codejock com A license is required to use the contents of this folder for d
40. file to play from the list at the bottom of the window Play currently selected file Pause CI Start again Stop From Start at beginning of file Set From to the current position To To end of file Set To to the current position Audio e 47 Use the From and To slider positions to select the part of the file to repeated over and over and over again This is useful for determining exactly what the station was sending Other Options The other options are Copy copy the selected files to another folder Delete delete the selected files Move move the selected files to another folder Rename rename the selected file Artis Album Title Description change the MP3 tags Auxiliary Switching Introduction Technology Manager A standard PC comes equipped with an 8 bit parallel port that can be used to switch auxiliary equipment such as antennas bandpass filters and power amplifiers Ham Radio Deluxe supports the parallel port via fully configurable manager and monitor displays Typical uses of this option are to switch antennas either automatically as the frequency changes or by selecting an option from the Parallel Port pane of the selection window The parallel port sends 8 bits at a time The layout of the parallel port pins is shown below o o o o o o o o o o o o 2 1 o o o o o o 9 o 17 16 o 14 The data pins are shown in red DO is pin 2 D7 is pin 9 T
41. files Location Location Location Location Location ADIF Field HRD Field ANT AZ Azimuth ANT EL Elevation ANT PATH Path CHECK Check CLASS Class CONTEST ID Contest PRECEDENCE Precedence OPERATOR PROGRAMID PROGRAMVERSION ARRL SECT ARRL sect CNTY County CONT Continent CQZ CQ zone DISTANCE Distance Annex Logbook Database e 143 Location Location Location Location Depreciated Main Main Main Main Main Main Main Main Main Main Main Main Main Main Main Main Main My Station My Station My Station My Station My Station My Station My Station My Station My Station My Station My Station My Station My Station My Station My Station My Station My Station Operator Operator Operator Operator t b a t b a Operator Operator Operator ITUZ LAT LON STATE VE PROV ADDRESS BAND CALL COMMENT COUNTRY DXCC FREQ GRIDSQUARE IOTA MODE NAME QSO DATE QTH RST RCVD RST SENT TIME OFF TIME ON MY CITY MY CNTY MY COUNTRY MY CQ ZONE MY GRIDSQUARE MY IOTA MY ITU ZONE MY LAT MY LON MY NAME MY POSTAL CODE MY RIG MY SIG MY SIG INFO MY STATE MY STREET TX PWR AGE CONTACTED OP EMAIL EQ CALL GUEST OP OWNER CALLSIGN RIG SIG SIG INFO ITU zone Latitude Longitude State Address Band Station Remark Cntry Cntry read only Freq Locator IOTA Mode Name Start QTH RST Recv RST Sent End Start City County Country CQ zone Locator IOTA ITU zone
42. frequency resolution is set the 1 Hz for e AIL ICOM e All Elecraft e All FlexRadio e All Kenwood All other radios are set to 10 Hz If you have a radio that supports 1 Hz resolution and is not in the above list please contact the author Options Option Description VFO The VFO used for the uplink TX and downlink RX If checked X the selected VFO is updated regularly as the satellite frequency is corrected for Doppler shift satellite The satellite frequency Click the Open button to select a new frequency from a popup window containing the Favourites definitions or enter the new frequency Transverter If you are using a transverter enter your transverter s intermediate frequency here and check the X box If you are not using a transverter either leave this field empty or do not check the X box The radio frequency is calculated as Satellite Transverter Doppler shift Radio The radio frequency as computed by HRD taking Doppler shift into account satellite Select the current satellite from a dropdown list that contains the entries selected earlier in the Satellites window Plot for Determines the amount of information that is plotted over the surface of the planet for the current satellite TX gt RX Copy the Uplink satellite frequency to the Downlink satellite frequency RX gt TX Copy the Downlink satellite frequency to the Uplink satellite frequency TX lt gt RX Exchange the Uplink and Downlink satellite
43. is ready to begin installation Click Install to begin the installation If you wantto review or change any of your installation settings click Back Click Cancel to exit the wizard Install Cancel Click Install to start the installation Installation e 15 Ham Radio Deluxe InstallShield Wizard Setup Status Ham Radio Deluxe is configuring your new software installation Installing C Program Files Amateur Radio Ham Radio DeluxeXlame enc dll InstallShield Cancel The progress of the installation is shown while the software is being installed Ham Radio Deluxe InstallShield Wizard InstallShield Wizard Complete Ham Radio Deluxe Setup is almost complete Choose the options you want below would like to start PSK31 Deluxe Press Finish to complete Ham Radio Deluxe Setup lt Back Cancel When the software has been installed select the programs to be started then press Finish First Steps Connection Now that you have installed HRD you can try it out using a Dem o matic radio This is a reasonable accurate simulation of the real thing designed for use during presentations and while developing HRD when a radio 1s not available on the train in a plane in an airport stuck in a hotel room in Finland etc From the Start menu select Programs Ham Radio Deluxe Once the splash screen has closes you see the Connect window Fo Connect HB9DRV in Switzerland Company Visit
44. meters 1f any such as PWR SWR and ALC Status Window The status window displays information which you cannot normally change using buttons or sliders in HRD Typical examples are Scanning status Split mode and Memory channels Clock Position The clock is displayed to the left right or both sides of the band title Customise Layout e 31 Frequency Customise Layout Schemes Layout Buttons Faceplate Frequency Meters Sliders Appearance Sliders Layout Tuning Dial Defines the appearance ofthe frequency readout on the radio display Display 14 070 150 21 070 150 a Dropdowns None Mode OA v Add barder If your radio supports simultaneous access to two VFO s Kenwood some Yaesu then HRD will display two VFO s otherwise just one VFO is displayed First select the VFO you are updating main or sub The colours you can set are e Background e Frequency the digits e Active Posn the bar above and below the current digit e Inactive posn the bar above and below the other digit The Font can also be set use the Main gt Sub and Sub gt Main buttons to copy settings between VFO s Dropdowns The dropdown buttons Mode Filter can be displayed at the top of the main frequency display Select e None no dropdowns e Mode only the mode dropdown or e All all dropdowns If Mode or Allis selected you can check Add Border to add a border around the text If All 1s se
45. need to reboot your computer HRD does not update your system files or change your system s configuration in any way Ham Radio Deluxe InstallShield Wizard Installing Ham Radio Deluxe 3 3 Beta build 968 By Simon Brown HBSDRY and Peter Halpin PHIFH Created Tuesday December 20 2005 at 22 03 This is Freeware keep Amateur Radio software free E Cancel When you start the installation the first sereen shows the release and build you are installing Installation e 13 Ham Radio Deluxe InstallShield Wizard License greement Please read the following license agreement carefully IMPORTANT Before commencing using this Product carefully read the following terms and conditions which have been accepted by your company Licensee 1 DISTRIBUTION This Product may be distributed for use by Radio Amateurs butitmaynotbe sold The maximum charge allowed for the distribution medium is 10 euro or 10 2 GRANT OF LICENSE Simon Brown HB9DR hereby grants to Licensee You and You accept a nonexclusive license License to use the this Product delivered pursuant and subject to this Agreement You agree that You will not assign sublicense or otherwise transfer your right under this Agreement without the prior written consent of Simon Brown 8 acceptthe terms ofthe license agreement C I do not acceptthe terms of the license agreement ict I alshield You must accept the licencing condition
46. new bitmap for the World map press Map Currently only BMP files are supported in a future release other formats and a better resolution will be added To switch between short path and long path use the two radio buttons Short and Long Here you configure the rotator you are using Connect Connect AlfaSpid RAS Do Not Use with RAK AZ rotator Ex Connect Limits Presets Logfile p i Port COMI Park n ion Current Status P Horz step Type AlfaSpid RAS YES Horz angle Speed 600 Vert step Connect Vert angle My locator JN46pt Valid To connect to a rotator e Select the COM port e The rotator type e The connection speed e Press Connect Look in the Logfile page 99 if you have problems connecting Enter the park position for the rotator nice shortcut especially if using a satellite array Enter your locator so that HRD can compute bearings from your station The most recently returned status 1s displayed in the Current Status area The current status is read when you connect to the rotator controller Limits Connected to COM1 Connect Limits Presets Logfile Minimum elevation 5 Lowest elevation is 5 Defaults For rotators with elevation support enter the minimum elevation If you look at the picture on page 97 you see that there is no point in using an elevation lower than 5 degrees Presets Connected to COM Connect Limits Presets
47. the radio just press TF SET once Same Band Split An example is talking to the astronauts on the ISS where the TX frequency is 145 200 000 MHz and the RX frequency is 145 800 00 MHz You cannot use SAT mode as this 1s only used for cross band operation so you use Split mode e TX VFO Sub XIT e RX VFO Main e SAT off e Split on Satellite Tracking e 107 XIT will be switched on as soon as you check TX X updates If you switch it off then HRD will switch it on again The RX main frequency on the TS 2000 is set to the correct RX frequency satellite Doppler correction The TX sub frequency on the TS 2000 is set to the TX satellite frequency the Doppler correction is applied by adjusting the XIT value When you transmit the TS 2000 displays the TX sub frequency XIT so the frequency displayed on the TS 2000 is the correct frequency satellite Doppler correction When you start transmitting you may hear beeps from the radio it takes HRD a few seconds before it detects that you are transmitting When HRD detects transmit mode it stops updating the RX main frequency intil you return to receive as the frequency cannot be updated by the computer while transmitting with SAT off Yaesu FT 847 You must select SAT mode on the FT 847 so that Ham Radio Deluxe can read and set both the TX and RX frequencies It is not possible to determine the state of the FT 847 s SAT button so you must press the SAT button in HR
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50. 17 49 01 28 12 2005 17 56 01 7 00 4 Visibility ll satellite Tracking Local JN46AT VO 52 Uplink ON Downlink ON Sotelites Observer 9 Ground Control 9 Schedule CurentData 9 Mutual Visibdity Y Visibility Next Passes Single Pass Pilot 9 All 4 o u A0 27 y x x x x x x Y x Sotell e visibility sotefMe i in range Visible now C Visibleinnex 30 minutes Viewer Satellite Azimuth Elevation o 0 Range Altitude Range Rate gt 5 59 126 80 70 04 7 48 5 01 53 27 35 E 56 15 S 2 826 37 B22 lt 0 19481537 154 42 26 6 10 1 3398 31 26 E 12 88 5 7 056 2 714 95 6 11760712 158 29 73 39 39 12 49 49 50 92 72 1 357 11 325 1 65916760 136 73 1 67 0 3 4 58 29 41 E 23 0 3 518 51 817 680 6 35537886 0 00 90 Visible U0 E 0 00 N 0 00 O 0 00000000 132 69 9 12 21 50 1 33 32 42 74 E 6 02 N 5 747 98 576 69 4 79986937 8 30 9 02 Visib 5 01 3 75 E 64 05 N 2 146 57 664 2 0 02066673 318 42 254 29 59 00 1 11 32 3 05 W 11 36 N 112 16 616 10 3 89572984 The visibility window gives you an overview of the satellites you have selected in the Satellites window Select the satellites that are displayed All displays all satellites Visible now displays only the satellites which are currently visible Visible in next displays the satellites visible at any time in the time period you select for example the next 60 minu
51. 2 12 2005 06 03 26 9 00 22 12 2005 07 36 24 22 12 2005 07 40 24 4 00 22 12 2005 15 40 35 22 12 2005 15 46 35 6 00 22 12 2005 17 18 32 22 12 2005 17 26 32 8 00 23 12 2005 05 26 14 23 12 2005 05 34 14 8 00 23 12 2005 07 06 54 23 12 2005 07 14 54 8 00 23 12 2005 15 13 42 23 12 2005 15 17 42 4 00 23 12 2005 16 50 24 23 12 2005 16 58 24 8 00 24 12 2005 04 58 15 24 12 2005 05 04 15 6 00 24 12 2005 06 38 06 24 12 2005 06 47 06 9 00 24 12 2005 14 47 38 24 12 2005 14 48 38 1 00 24 12 2005 16 22 36 24 12 2005 16 30 36 8 00 24 12 2005 18 02 24 24 12 2005 18 08 24 6 00 25 12 2005 06 09 35 25 12 2005 06 18 35 9 00 25 12 2005 15 55 07 25 12 2005 16 02 07 7 00 25 12 2005 17 33 43 25 12 2005 17 41 43 8 00 26 12 2005 05 41 17 26 12 2005 05 50 17 9 00 26 12 2005 07 22 32 26 12 2005 07 28 32 6 00 26 12 2005 15 27 59 26 12 2005 15 33 59 6 00 26 12 2005 17 05 24 26 12 2005 17 13 24 8 00 27 12 2005 05 13 10 27 12 2005 05 21 10 8 00 27 12 2005 06 53 27 27 12 2005 07 02 27 9 00 27 12 2005 15 01 22 27 12 2005 15 04 22 3 00 27 12 2005 16 37 25 27 12 2005 16 45 25 8 00 27 12 2005 18 18 40 27 12 2005 18 22 40 4 00 28 12 2005 04 45 24 28 12 2005 04 50 24 5 00 28 12 2005 06 24 48 28 12 2005 06 33 48 9 00 28 12 2005 16 09 45 28 12 2005 16 17 45 8 00 28 12 2005
52. 4 ETS IF IFELF2F3P4pPOPOP POP9IPIOPLIPIZPISPIARIDS 11 digits frequency in Hz 5 digits not used Oo digits Hot Used Ll digIit mot used 1 digit not used l digit not used 2 digits not used Ll ALTE Oe Ray ES 1 digit see MD above 1 digit not used 1 digit Hot used 1 digit not used 1 digit not used 2 digits not used 1 digit not used MD Recalls or reads the operating mode status Set Read Answer MD mode MD MD mode Where mode is one of oO Oo 05 1001 4 WN ES None LSB USB CW FM AM FSK CWR CW Reverse Tune FSR FSK Reverse SM Retrieves the S Meter value Read Answer where t 0030 E 0018 SM IF 4 digit value he returned value range is from 0000 to ach Unit 26 12 oH 8 0 S 2650010 SI 18 3rd Party Programs e 123 Annex Command Tester Introduction Starting Too Many Radios In a project like Ham Radio Deluxe it 1s not always possible for the developers to have every radio available for their own use it s very expensive and takes up too much room This is where the user community helps by using the Command Tester individual commands are tested by the users of Ham Radio Deluxe and the results sent to the developers as a text file in a standard format Very often the problem is either determining the data returned for the various mode filter frequency combinations supported by a rig or working out how to set a rig option
53. 46 16 4 77 107 71 11 17 Sun 25 Dec 2005 41 19 8 92 2285 16 235 33 12 53 Sun 25 Dec 2005 10 41 349 29 sare 63 296 67 6 44 Sun 25 Dec 2005 19 34 21 51 15 19 36 wa 42 72 1 50 Sun 25 Dec 2005 21 03 56 126 15 21 15 41 41 61 11 49 Sun 25 Dec 2005 22 39 11 179 32 22 52 00 260 30 13 10 Mon 26 Dec 2005 2 19 20 244 27 09 278 52 7 22 Mon 25 Dec 2005 7 24 25 24 45 70 117 895 12 08 Mon 26 Dec 2005 12 00 33 5 46 2 257 27 12 32 Mon 26 Dec 2005 38 23 343 29 76 303 79 6 54 Mon 26 Dec 2005 51 01 74 26 9 2 71 47 29 5 55 Mon 26 Dec 2005 22 34 137 00 21 29 47 66 91 12 31 Mon 26 Dec 2005 22 58 37 190 22 70 264 25 12 46 Select Batrash Passes 50 v OO ri DO We amp x x x x PJ h m et open we a pu C O te m J PI J whe gt N e C OO moy rr Do Pb ss WwW 4 PJ des Nah ta Py e Ue un 0 Ul un c This window shows up to 1 000 passes for a selected satellite Note do not select more than 100 passes unless you have a very powerful computer minimum CPU frequency of 2 GHz is recommended Press Alarm to add an audio alarm when a satellite is about to pass overhead Press Plot to plot a selected pass in the Single Pass window Press Viewer to display the data with the default text file viewer usually Notepad Single Pass I Satellite Tracking Local JN46AT VO 52 Uplink ON Downlink ON Smelites Observ
54. 5 TS 6905 TS 790 TS 850 TS 870 TS 9405 TS 950 TS B2000 e Ten Tec Argonaut Jupiter Orion RX 350 e Yaesu FT 100 FT 1000D FT 1000MP MkV FT 600 FT 817 FT 840 FT 847 FT 857 FT 890 FT 897 FT 900 FT 920 FT 990 FTD X 9000 It was the voices in my head that made me do it Medical opinion may differ here Requirements e 11 Interfacing You will need a cable to connect your radio to the computer s serial COM port If you don t have a serial port all is not lost USB serial converters are widely available Please note not all USB serial converters work well enough for HRD If in doubt ask for a recommendation in the HRD support forums For more interfacing information refer to e The HRD Interface guide and e CATbox a Modular Computer Interface by Bas Helman G4TIC These files are downloadable from the HRD download center http hrd ham radio ch downloads html Check out the cable solutions from e G4ZLP http gAzlp ham radio ch and e West Mountain Radio http www westmountainradio com Installation Introduction The Ham Radio Deluxe kit is a standard Windows kit it supports Windows 98 Windows 2000 and more recent releases The Logbook uses the Microsoft Jet 4 0 Database Engine see Database on page 69 for more information Ham Radio Deluxe Ham Radio Deluxe can be installed in under a minute Special knowledge is not needed the kit does everything for you You will not
55. 6 48 m 45 Longitude 8 Height Formats Meters 1035 e Local Feet 3395 O UTC GMT Changes are applied immediately In the Observer window you enter your location and height above sea level in meters or feet for users more familiar with imperial measurements metre is 3 3 feet You also enter an optional list of stations that are plotted on the world maps Only the checked X entries are plotted Enter your location either e By entering your Maidenhead Locator in the Locator field and the pressing Convert gt gt or e By entering the Latitude and Longitude directly You also select the preferred time format either Local default or UTC Distance 1s displayed in either kilometers or miles Y ou must press Apply to update the satellite settings Ground Control ea Satellite Tracking Local JN46AT 50 50 Uplink OFF Downlink ON p Sanelltes V Obsereer Y Ground Cortal Schule Curent Data Mutual Visibility 9 Visibilsy amp Mex Passes Single Pass Plar DOE V Help VFO Satellite TS 2000 rz O Main 145 850 000 R V Main _436 795 000 435 803 023 Saisies S0 60 _ Lineer Transponder P TF i Definitions Potion hours SE Bi Fir mode LSB LI Ensble Manuel Tan nd FZ ES En CJ Pig Opens AMSAT ong 53 310 MO 50 50 20 30 82 Southbound ADS 4 21 LOS 12 35 Azim 315 45 E low 4 61 Hange 4 242km Namo AOE Vi
56. 8 9793 12 53565904320301 AO 10 1 14129U 83058B 03265 06525444 00000148 00000 0 10000 3 0 9658 2 14129 26 3223 129 7582 5974698 27 0721 354 5394 2 05868478124501 The verbose format is not supported The bare NASA format elements from http www amsat org contain all satellites of interest to radio amateurs Alternatively if you look at http www celestrak com NORA D elements you will see many files that can be downloaded Just download these files and save them in the Satellites folder selected previously For more information about the contents of these files browse http www celestrak com All text files in the Data Folder are loaded into Ham Radio Deluxe so you should delete old files if you no longer need them Select up to 100 entries from the Available list by either double clicking on individual entries or by highlighting one or more entries and pressing By pressing gt gt all entries up to a maximum of 100 are moved to the Selected list Satellite Tracking e 103 Observer all Satellite Tracking Local JN46AT RS 22 Uplink OFF Downlink ON Satellites Y Observer 9 Ground Control Schedule Current Data Mutual Visiblity Visibility Nest Passes Single Pass Plot DOE O gt Enter your locebon end hevght above sea level and any other stehons to be ploted Your Location Stations To Plot Locator JN46AT Convert Station ui u A GD4ELI 5431250000 437500000 or enter direct Landt 4
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58. Band Mouse Wheel Selection Window Toolbars Updates Accelerators Comms COMPortTX Docking Panes ICOM Calibration Info Modes COM Port TX Configuration Some early radios do not support switching TX RX via CAT commands so the only option is to use a pin on the COM port This requires a special CAT cable Radios COM Port Pin IC 706 IC 706MKIIG IC 707 IC 718 IC 725 IC 735 IC 736 IC 738 IC 751A IC 756 IC 765 IC 775DSP IC 781 Some early ICOM radios do not support switching between TX and RX using CAT commands The only way to enable computer controlled TX RX this is by toggling a COM port pin You require a special CAT cable if you select this option Info Options Internet Out Of Band Mouse Wheel Selection Window Toolbars Updates Accelerators Comms COMPortTX Docking Panes ICOM Calibration Info Modes Docking Pane Appearance Visual Theme Floating Frames CO Default v Apply to floating frames O Visual Studio NET C Office 2003 Select Reset from the File menu to resetthe Docking pane layout gt Visual Studio 6 7 Whidbey Shortcut Bar 2003 Explorer Visual Studio 2005 Close this window to see theme changes HRD uses the excellent programming library from Codejock Software to support an advanced docking pane option Docking panes are used for optional windows such as Bandscope Calendar DX Cluster Logbook Selection Shortwave
59. Comment IKIXVO Oman special call France dmf55012 moulin de V saudi Arabia Manfred cq Sri Lanka nelson Norway cqdx Belgium CQ OLIVIA Asiatic Russia Ken rough Hungary cq 1st 3 MATT RANA TATA I INAN 137 kHz 1 8 MHz 3 5 MHz 7 MHz 10 MHz 14 MHz 18 MHz L21 ME 3000 31PO0O00 The advantage here 1s that you can apply any filtering supported by the DX Spider node you connect to If your interest is European 144MHz then you don t want to see 144MHz spots from the rest of the world Press to enable regular updates the update interval is set by pressing amp not applicable is using a custom DX cluster Press to refresh the display Refresh Interval Enter the refresh interval a value between 10 and 999 seconds then press OK Interval seconds Press aA to change the font size Select an entry in the display then press orz to perform a lookup of the station from the ORZ website ORZ Lookup Field Value Callsign HIRS Mame RAFAEL CHIKIN VIGUERA Address POO BO 30541 SANTO DOMING GTH SANTO DOMINGO Country DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Locator Home Page QSL vie no qsl mar Press to display the homepage for the selected source not available if using a custom DX cluster Press 2 to submit a spot not available is using the HRD source i Submit a DX Spot HoR hy call X call Frequency Information DX Cluster e 63 Favourites I
60. D so that it shows SAT as being enabled In normal cross band satellite mode for example transmit on 70cms and receive on 2m select e TX VFO B Sub e RX VFO A Main e SAT on e Split off e Tracking off you do not need to enable tracking the computer does everything for you also the tuning response with HRD is much faster with tracking off To switch tracking off press the A gt B button underneath Track The FT 847 must be in satellite mode so that the computer can update the TX frequency When in SAT mode the FT 847 takes a long time to respond to Read Frequency requests especially if tracking 1s on as a result when you tune the FT 847 with the radio s tuning dial the displayed frequency will not update very quickly Other The transmit frequency of some Yaesu radios such as the FT 817 and FT 857 cannot be changed while in transmit mode so it 1s not possible to apply Doppler correction while transmitting If you think your Yaesu radio can be updated while transmitting please contact the author ICOM IC 910H In normal cross band satellite mode for example transmit on 70cms and receive on 2m select e TX VFO Sub e RX VFO Main e SAT on The IC 910H must be in satellite mode so that the TX uses the Sub frequency If the bands on the radio are the same as HRD but reversed press M S to switch the Main and Sub frequencies Because the IC 910H cannot display the same band on both Main and Sub HRD cannot
61. ESERV 24930 0 2360N B 599 1006 19 LUSHY 24950 0 2b 7Ve 38 in LU 1419 18 Dec Isla 24950 0 ZDE 59 on my RE strong and Easy 1415 18 Dec DL9NDC 247230 0 2b 7Ve 1874 55 59 Bruce in JH59 1406 10 Dec DLSFU 214895 0 S2 UR 40H fb sigs nw 1406 18 Dec WLZT z4H95 1 Zz UA4WHX 1404 10 Dec Dec TISCBT 294095 2 Zz UAJWHX Ese Beam To Costa Rica 1903 18 B DX SUMMIT IS SPONSORED EY OH2AQ OHOAAQ CU in the Contest l0GHz 27 Aug ja3ggi 15 I 93 As 12 K 2 R 57 Ho storms Ho storms Beacon Digital IOTA 27 Aug k ske 12 I 93 Ke 12 K 2 NO STORMS NO STORMS Aug dl afv 11 Us A l K Z NO STORMS NO STORMS 26 Aug ja3qgi 21 Is 83 As 12 Ks 2 Re 76 No storms No storms FE Thine 5 i 0 Te ie F ve 7 Tha bd Aen er a en A ede m m x HRD 3 http dxcluster ham radio ch Ham Radio Deluxe DX Cluster Analysis Microsoft Internet Explorer He Edt yew Favorites Joos Hep UTC Comment P32 we9z 24895 0 22 Dec 20 42 ICA still here Jerry p32 w897 24895 1 22 Der calling cq PJ2 w892 Dec 20 Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec J AJ J AJ jerry tnx for 12m PJ2 WB9Z Z 95 plus 10 into AZ PI2 WwEIZ P32 w892 TI8CBT EAB OZSBF Top 50 Top 250 N7OD 30s refresh 180s refresh RN6H n3 m3 amp Po m un va un O Jj m p v O m mr h3 nn Pp we r M TEST Dec 08 3 tNOHZ CQ test prop AL 24935 0 20 Dec 21 3 ANT 59 na 036 pug E 20 Dec 20 12 9 NA 036 20
62. GL JJ2LPY England 3 5 MHz GW3YDX DCIZP Wales EA 1VHF B G4RRA Spain INSSRE lt TR gt IC GW3IYDX JJ2LPV Wales VR2MY a LX1AX Hong Kong 56 9 XU7TZG DC9ZP Cambodia Sri Call A4IAXK FSDGY Oman al M eede 34 I1 11 T gt TAMdan T 7 c T TT TM When you click on an entry the frequency is sent to the HRD display Configuration Press amp to open the Configuration window Cluster Source There are three possible sources for DX spots 3 OH2AQ the original and most widely used web based cluster The spots are read by parsing data from the pages on the OH2AQ site at http oh2aq kolumbus com dxs 4 Ham Radio Deluxe a web based cluster with data downloadable in CSV format from http dxcluster ham radio ch These web pages were made available by the HRD team as the OH2AQ cluster can be overloaded at times especially at the weekend and during contests 5 Custom using the DX Cluster Client built into HRD Here you connect to any DX cluster node OH2AQ Ham Radio Deluxe Using these web based clusters is the easiest way to get started All you need is an Internet connection OH2AQ supports the Spot option the Ham Radio Deluxe cluster offers a faster response when OH2AQ is overloaded Custom DX Cluster Client This option is only supported on Windows NT 2K XP It is not supported in Windows 98 ME SE In the DX Cluster Client pane you con
63. J M USB J 16 05 2005 13 19 13 19 YUIFW USB Home page http www gsl net lzi 16 05 2005 1300 13 00 LZ1IUQ USB Home page http www qsl net lz 16 05 2005 12 29 12 28 LZ2HM USB Home page http www qsl net lz 31 10 2004 19 40 19 40 GW4BLE LSB 194 08 109004 10 nm MATTE Hmm A IES The display lists the 100 most recent QSO s The options are Add an entry using the advanced logbook entry window Show main logbook window Edit selected entry Logbook options Delete the selected entries Show or Hide the input fields Input Fields When you press the input fields are displayed Logbook r i ate tation an ode ent eov SS ar D Stati Band Mod 5 R A x 29 05 2005 EH5ASF bm 59 29 05 2005 3 LY2BA NW 5m 59 29 05 2005 ITSNGJ M bm 59 15 nk2nfr E Vy 1H eA Em ra Hama nano hte s mol nat ls a Star 06 01 2006 v 1552 End 1552 Station GD4EL 160m is m F r FETTE p E j A Sent 2 Rec 59 Rem sli upari ANSANS in nd quyl u i Just enter the QSO information then press Pressing J loads the current time into the appropriate field Pressing J displays the options window where you select whether the Frequency and Mode fields track the values shown in the radio display Logbook Options E Track radio frequency Track radio mode Cancel Main Display The main display has a more traditional logbook approach
64. Logfile A Add Location Azimuth Elevation Axel 85 0 Don 290 0 Simon 100 0 Viewer Double click gt Enter preset bearings for your friends DX expeditions or just anywhere of interest As you change this list the main window s preset list is updated Double click on entries to apply immediately Logfile Connected to COM Connect Limits Presets Logfile Text Connecting to COMI Setting buffer sizes to 2048 2048 Setting speed to 600 n 6 1 Setting timeouts Setting DTR clearing RTS Connected to COMI Wrote 57 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 20 Read 57 06 09 01 00 01 04 00 05 00 01 20 Wrote 57 30 34 36 30 01 30 33 36 35 01 2F 20 10 Wrote 57 30 33 36 30 01 30 34 35 30 01 2F 20 11 10 49 Wrote 57 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF F 20 rase Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y The logfile is an invaluable aid for you and software developers when diagnosing a problem You see all traffic over the COM port In this example a connection is made with an AlfaSPID rotator Rotator e 99 Satellite Tracking Introduction If you are new to satellite tracking visit http www amsat org maintained by The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation AMSAT for excellent articles written for new satellite users HRD s Satellite Tracking support would not be possible without the help of David Taylor and his open source satellite tracking library After using David s code to get started I wrote m
65. S ne O ee ee 128 O REINE INNERN NCC NA RU C 130 Annex Portmon 133 ao AA ERR ERE 133 Sample LOS ee esse 134 Annex Remote Server 135 Technical information ee 135 o cct ee ee 135 ran ELH G18 A ee en N ee ER ERE E 136 Annex Settings 139 N ee ee ee LM ee II II ee na rien 139 I I ee ee ee A 139 RN er 139 AL 0 1 ee A 140 Annex Logbook Database 141 roda c LOT RR RE te RO UNSERE 141 1 E21 NUS Space miis A M LM P M A EIC 141 1121 suo ouis Ada PM M Ml DNE I MM D M EDU MR LE M Pee 141 COUME uir uin NP MAIL E RE A Lee I TN Ar AMI MA 142 o o ee en 142 A II II EM RE E M PaL 142 QI SZ T RC Cu 143 AT D ee ee ee ee Nee 143 Annex Building HRD 149 DT A c LM tM O E E p SA EA DL M E 149 SO E OG ri EE MEL UD LUE UM D M EU A A E UE 149 AA RR UR ee A RR SERERE MA 150 In 150 Index 151 Introduction How It All Began In early 2003 Peter PHP1PH and myself Simon HB9DRV talked about developing a simple program to control the soon to be released ICOM IC 703 We had previously developed the FT 817 Commander which proved to be very popular the main lesson being learnt that future programs must not be tied to a single radio or a single manufacturer rather they must be designed to support all current and future radios Maybe it was the beer maybe the desire to give something back to the radio amateur community however on June 6 2003 the first line of code was written Ham Radio Deluxe HRD was born The inspiration for the
66. Uplink ON Downlink ON Satellites Observer Ground Control Schedule Current Data Y Mutual Visiblity Visibilay Next Passes Single Pass Satellite AO 27 Future Eleveton E Soton Locator M Observer JN46AT A DIEU IO74TH days mirmmum Satelite mutual vwisbdity satellite r in range of two or more locabons LOS Duration 9 Pilot DOE e 4 6 8 8 8 4 8 6 9 1t 8 5 9 7 8 9 6 6 8 8 9 3 8 4 5 9 8 Select two or more stations this list is defined on he Observer page Refresh Y rwar e Local J UTC GMT The mutual visibility window answers the question when is a satellite simultaneously visible from two or more locations The information is determined up to 99 days in the future for any stations from the list defined in the Observer page The satellite is considered to be visible if the elevation 1s the same as or greater than the selected value Use the Viewer option to display the data in Notepad for example Batellite A0 27 Future 7 days Min elevation 10 Time format Local 4 station Locator 4 2 Observer JN46AT GDAELI I074TH AOS LOS Duration 22 12 2005 05 54 26 2
67. Y To Archive Folder WAAR Archives 31 Dec 2005 eal status Exporting registry File Registry Values HamRadioDeluxe 2 005 12 30 rerx File Registry Values Mapper Z005 12 30 reg File Registry Values PSES1 Deluxe Z005 12 S0 reg Copying files C Documents and Settings S5imon Application I U HRD Archive31 Dec 2005 4 lt ll Browse Fram Browse To i Cancel m Select the destination folder Browse the From folder Browse the To folder Start copying files and registry values When you press Copy you see a DOS window appear briefly a few times HRD uses regedit e to copy the registry values this in turn causes the DOS to appear To restore registry values just double click on a reg file Windows will prompt you to load the values into the registry Annex Logbook Database Introduction Tables The logbook uses a very simple Access database Originally DAO 3 5 Access 97 was used as the programming interface this has been replaced with ODBC in early 2006 starting with version 3 3 build 984 Apart from getting away from DAO and the need to install the DAO support not shipped with Windows ODBC is needed for used of 64 bit Windows as DAO is not supported on 64 bit Windows The database structure is the same for DAO and ODBC Each table contains an auto incrementing primary key To analyse the database yourself e Start Microsoft Access e Convert the database 1f necessary using th
68. able from Phil Covington N8VB His homepage is http www philcovington com SDR html look for the NSVB vCOM Virtual Serial Ports Driver download The N8VB driver works with Windows 2000 XP and higher Windows 95 98 SE ME and NT 4 0 are not supported N8VB s solution creates a pair of virtual COM ports virtual because there is no hardware associated with a virtual COM port The ports are effectively connected back to back just like a normal serial cable In the description that follows two ports are created during the installation COM7 used by HRD and COMS used by the 3rd party program e HRD opens and listens on COM7 port for incoming requests e The other program opens COMS in exactly the same way it would connect to a radio using a hardware serial port The connection parameters used by the 3 party program to connect with COM8 are e Speed any 9600 by default but this really doesn t matter e Stop bits 2 e Parity none The protocol supported is Kenwood the command set current supported is e FA Get set VFO A e FB Get set VFO B e MDGet set mode e IF Read status currently frequency TX status and mode are supported e SM Read the S Meter To use this option Ham Radio Deluxe must be connected to a radio otherwise the standard Kenwood error response will be returned The radio does not have to support the Kenwood protocol as Ham Radio Deluxe makes the necessary conversions 3rd Party Programs e 121
69. bogs you down because you can t get ahead of the keyer The default value is one dit time 50 and is adjustable in percent of a dit time Faster operators report a setting somewhat less than default is more pleasing If the paddle sensitivity is set to zero dit and dah paddle memory is disabled The delay is calculated with this formula DELAY TIME SWITCHPOINT DET TIME 730 where SWITCHPOINT is a value between 10 and 90 Dit Dah Ratio Allows WinKey to deviate from the standard 1 3 ratio of dit dah The formula to determine dah dit ratio 1s DAH DIT 35 41 50 A value of 50 selects 1 3 a value of 33 would select 1 2 and a value of 66 would select 1 4 This causes an intentional distortion of the Morse waveform Some ops use this option to make their CW sound less machine like Weighting This command allows a proportional amount to be either added or subtracted from the length of all dits and dahs sent A value of 50 selects no weighting adjustment Values less than 50 reduce weighting and values greater than 50 increase weighting Note that weighting does not affect sending speed because any increase in keyed time is subtracted from spacing time A reduction in weighting results in a thinner sounding keying increased weighting results in a heavier sound Since weighting tracks speed a given weighting will sound the same at all speeds PPT Lead PTT Tail WinKey provides a transmitter PTT output that can be used to s
70. cking Panes Appearance ICOM Calibration S Meter Info Modes Mapping Info Options Supported Internet Enable Out Of Band Enable In band Out of band Mouse Wheel Ow Fine CV Hot Other Fine Other Hot Selection Window Advanced values Tree expand Toolbars Font Updates Reminder Accelerators Comms COMPorTX Docking Panes ICOM Calibration Info Modes Info Options Internet Out Of Band Mouse Wheel Selection Window Toolbars Updates a Defines the tuning step when rotating the mouse wheel Narrow Mades Wide Mades Fine Hot Fine Hot 10Hz 10 Hz 10 Hz 10 Hz 20Hz 20 Hz 20 Hz 20 Hz EEE 50 Hz 50H 50 Hz 100 Hz 100 Hz 100 Hz 100 Hz 200 Hz 200 Hz 200 Hz 200 Hz 500Hz 500 Hz 500 Hz 500 Hz 1 000 H2 MONA 1 000 Hz MOTA 2 000 Hz 2 000 Hz 2 000 Hz 2 000 Hz 5 000 Hz 5 000 Hz 5 000 Hz 5 000 Hz 3 000 Hz 9 000 Hz 9 000 Hz 9 000 Hz 10 000 Hz 10 000 Hz 10 000 Hz 10 000 Hz 12 500 Hz 12 500 Hz 12 500 Hz 12 500 Hz 25 000 Hz 25 000 Hz 25 000 Hz 25 000 Hz 50 000 Hz 50 000 Hz 50 000 Hz Hint Pressing Shift or Ctrl accelerates the selected step Invertfrequency scrolling direction Define the tuning step when rotating the mouse wheel over the active tuning bar Selection Window COM Part TX RTS DTR Both None Docking Panes Appearance ICOM Calibration S Meter Info Modes Mapping Info Options supported Internet E
71. e Convert Database option selected from the Tools menu do not overwrite the database e Use the Analyzer Documenter option selected from the Tools menu Notes 9 Do not use programs such as Microsoft Access to convert the database or if you do just make sure that you do not overwrite the database DAO is delicate if you convert to a newer version of Access you will not be able to open the database with HRD 9 Take regular backups Bands This table defines the frequency ranges for the ADIF bands used when exporting to ADIF Columns Name Type Size PrimaryKey Long Integer 4 MinFreq Long Integer 4 MaxFreq Long Integer 4 Annex Logbook Database e 141 Title Text 32 ADIF Text 32 Comment Text 64 Countries The country list used to lookup a country based on prefix also to cross reference a country and DXCC number Columns Name PrimaryKey Country DXCC Comment Prefix Logbook This table stores information for each QSO Columns Name PrimaryKey Created Modified Station EndTime StartTime Remark ReportRecv ReportSent BandMHz Mode Frequency Locator Country DXCC IOTA QSLRecv QSLSent QSLRecvDate QSLSentDate eQSLRecv eQSLSent eQSLRecvDate eQSLSentDate eQSLStatus QSLVia Name Address QTH MyStation MyAntenna MyCallsign MyLocator MyPower MyName MyCountry Modes The supported modes this list contains all modes supported by ADIF Type Long Integer Text Text Memo
72. e example below is uses an IC 7800 with e From controller address EO personal computer the default value e To CI V address 6A the default for the IC 703 Refer to your ICOM radio manual for the correct CI V address for your rig The data received from the radio 1s always shown in hexadecimal a CAT Command Tester Connection USE THIS DISPLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK This display is used to test CAT commands outside of the main Ham Radio Deluxe Command framework The results can be saved to a text file for Title Reed S Meter later analysis From EO To 6 Cmd 15 Sub 02 Connection D ta Select the type of command to DIS N be sent Elecraft ICOM CI V l i l Kenwood Ten Tec or Yaesu Sent Received Connected Read Frequency OK FE FE EO 6A 03 OK FE FE EO 6A 03 90 66 01 14 00 FD Read Mode OK FE FE EO 64 04 OK FE FE EO 6A 04 03 01 FD Read S Meter OK FE FE ED 6A 15 02 OK FE FE EO 6A 15 02 OO 02 FD Fields e Title a description of the command you are testing for example Read Frequency or read Mode Mandatory e From controller s default address Enter EO Personal Computer Mandatory e To transceiver s default address the IC 703 uses 68 The address used by your radio is found in the user manual Mandatory e Cmd command number refer to the radio handbook Mandatory e Sub sub command number refer to the radio handbook If there
73. eel CW Fine Polling D Only poll radio if HRD is O100 300 Os Other Hot enge uu dn Ozo 0400 1000 Selection Window Advanced values Refresh interval milliseconds Normally you will not have to change the default settings e Read timeout serial port timeout e Switch off some radios such as the FT 817 can be powered down using a CAT command If this option is selected you are prompted to switch off the radio e Polling to reduce CPU load for slower systems e Dual VFO tracking if selected both VFO s are tracked on every refresh Only of use with Satellite Tracking page 97 e Refresh interval the interval between consecutive refreshes of the display COM Port TX Docking Panes Options COM Port TX RTS DTR Both None Docking Panes Appearance ICOM Calibration S Meter Info Modes Mapping Info Options Supported Internet Enable Qut Of Band Enable In band Qut of band Mouse Wheel Ow Fine CV Hot Other Fine Other Hot Selection Window Advanced values Tree expand Toolbars Font Updates Reminder Options COM Port TX RTS DTR Both None Dockine Appearance ICOM Calibration S Meter Info Modes Mapping Info Options Supported Internet Enable Out Of Band Enable In band Out of band Mouse Wheel Ow Fine Cw Hot Other Fine Other Hot Selection Window Advanced values Tree expand Toolbars Font Updates Reminder Info Options Internet Out Of
74. ens seperated by spaces not commas The supported options are NO MACROS NO TX For example USERl Simon SnowTime no_tx no macros Disables the TX and TUNE buttons and all Macros on the user s instance of HRD The user could enable TX via a Macro or CAT Command dE Fe db db db db dE dE EE dE dE dE dE E Simon snowTime Peter Uberwald Dponald california no macros no tx c ui m a na ow og Optional welcome text displayed on the remote user s computer Note that n is replaced with a newline Enter up to 511 characters on a single line Remove this line if you do not want a welcome message ELCOME welcome to the HRD Remote Access Server n nPlease don t break anything The contents of this file should be obvious After changing the configuration you should restart the service Restricting TX One special note to restrict a user s ability to switch the radio to transmit there are now optional tokens added with the username and password to disable access to the TX and any Tune buttons In addition you will want to disable macros as a knowledgeable user can define a CAT command to enable TX Connecting To connect to the remote server enter values as normal when starting HRD but select the Remote port then press Connect Remote Server e 93 o Connect HB9DRV in Switzerland Company ICOM Visit http hrd ham radio ch downloads html for A basic guide fo CAT and Audio inferfacing which
75. entre Here you define the colours fonts and band button positions Customise Layout e 35 Program Options Introduction Accelerators A Options Accelerators Custom Table Comms Dual WFO Tracking RX Timeout Switch Off Polling COM Port TX RTS DTR Both None Docking Panes Appearance ICOM Calibration S Meter Info Modes Mapping Info Options Supported Internet Enable Qut Of Band Enable In band Qut of band Mouse Wheel OW Fine Cv Hot Other Fine Other Hot Used to define various HRD features Program Options is selected from the Tools menu or by pressing the Options button v Info Options Internet Out Of Band Mouse Wheel Selection Window Toolbars Updates Accelerators Comms COMPaort TX DockingPanes ICOM Calibration Info Modes Custom keyboard mappings changes saved immediately Keystroke Radio Button CARO Notch 2014 0 0 150 Ctrl X TX zx Ctrl c Comp space ATT The digit index ranges from 0 Hz to 9 GHz Increment Alt Ctrl Shift lt digit gt Decrement Alt Ctrl lt digit gt Example Alt Ctrl Shift 4 1 kHz Example Alt Ctrl Shift 1 MHz Add Save to File Load from File Define accelerators for use with the Keyboard or with programmable interfaces such as the Griffin Powermate When you press Add the definition window is displayed Program Options e 37 Comms Accelerator Define a keyboard combination Keyboard Combination Key we
76. ents of the small help window as a text file using Notepad e Close closes the Command Tester If there are entries in the results window you are prompted to save them first The results are shown in the bottom half of the Command Tester window e Title as entered in the Title field e Send the command sent to the rig shown in ASCII and or Hex as appropriate e Received the received data shown in ASCII and or Hex as appropriate Examples of HRD use with various platforms is shown here Elecraft The Elecraft protocol uses ASCII characters it appears to be based more or less on the Kenwood protocol Refer to the Elecraft KIO2 Programmer s Reference for full information The data sent and received is always shown in ASCII text that makes debugging relatively easy If you select Show hex output the returned data 1s also shown in hexadecimal see the Change mode to RTTY below When a Set command is sent for example MD6 to set the mode to RTTY there is no response from the rig so instead MD6 MD is sent set the mode to RTTY MD6 and then read the mode MD this way there is always returned data CAT Command Tester Connection USE THIS DISPLAY AT YOUR OWN L4 coM2 4800 CTS DTR RTS Connect RISK This display is used to test CAT Company Kenwood y conmands outside of the main Ham Radio Deluxe framework The Title Change mode to ATTY read mode V Show hex output results
77. enu and select an entry in the list or 2 Click on the Band Title 760m IOm Region 1 in the radio display and select a new layout from the popup window Band Layouts e 55 160m 10m Region 1 160m 10m Region 1 160m 10m Region 2 160m 10m Region 3 160m 70cm 60m 5 MHz bm Detail Broadcast Low Freq Shortwave VHF UHF CNW Only DDE Support Introduction HRD uses dynamic data exchange DDE for inter process communication DDE allows two or more applications running simultaneously to exchange data and commands See also 3 Party Programs on page 121 Available Support Select DDE Monitor from the Tools menu to display the supported DDE items w DDE Monitor All currently supported ODE items for software developers service HRD RADIO Topic HERD CAT Item HRD BAND HRD BUTTON STATUS HRD DOPPLER DOWHNLINE 2705 9 HRD DOPPLER UPLINE 5079 6 HRD DROPDOWN LIST HRD EXEC RESULT HRD FREQUENCY 145 802 705 HERD HERTZ 145802705 HRD MODE USB HERD PRODUCT Ham Radio Deluxe v3 3 Beta HRD RADIO TS 460 Demo HRD SAT DOWNLINE 145800000 HRD SAT DOWNLINE _MODE USB HRD SAT DOWNLINE RADIO 145802705 HRD SAT UPLINE 435350000 HRD SAT UPLINE_ MODE LSB HRD SAT UPLIME_ RADIO 435341920 HRD SMETER Sb HRD SMETER_RAW HRD TRANSVERTER HRD TX HRD TX METERS Commands The commands below are supported by HRD DDE Support e 57 Add ADIF Record ADIF data
78. er 9 Ground Control 9 Schedule Current Data Mutual Visibility Visibility NextPasses 9 Single Pass Pict DOE e VO 52 21 23 04 21 35 36 Local Elevation Azimuth 42 02 20 16 653 08 ka amp 1 406 19 kh 21 Dec 2005 21 31 26 21 23 00 212500 212900 213100 21 33 00 Show Vocal Marker ee P 20 25 21 8 Azimuth 9 Tene MI Popup info O Altitude C Letmouse A 316 95 A 615 13km gt O Range Ogi El 56 76 Ra 11 401 93km This window plots a single pass for the satellite selected in the Next Passes window The elevation is plotted on the left y axis time is on the x axis Select Azimuth Altitude or Range to be plotted on the right y axis If Popup info is checked a vertical dashed marker line is displayed which either tracks the current time or is positioned by clicking on the chart with the left mouse button As the marker position changes the azimuth elevation altitude and range are displayed in the marker fields Plot F Satellite Tracking Local JN46AT VO 52 Uplink ON Downlink ON Smelitas Observer 9 Ground Control Schedule CurrentData Mutual Visibility Visibilay NextPasses Single Pass 9 Plot Y DOE e gt 9 1097 9 A051 9 sS Popup Plot Options Cat Bange v Auto plot Eva E eme Refresh 5 sec v Azim Elev Position Neat 20 mins Y Offset Je es This window shows the positio
79. erver Technical Information Remember that the software 1s designed for Windows NT but it should be possible to map all these commands to Linux and other UNIX derivatives The source code for the main processing thread is available the rest 1s highly Windows oriented and is of no use for other platforms Commands The supported commands are Command MSG CMD AUTHENTICATE MSG CMD CLOSE HANDLE MSG CMD CREATE FILE MSG CMD DEVICE IO CONTROL MSG CMD GET COM PORTS MSG CMD PURGE COMM MSG CMD READ FILE MSG CMD READ FILE EX MSG CMD SET COMM MASK MSG CMD SET COMM STATE MSG CMD SET COMM TIMEOUTS MSG CMD WRITE FILE ASYNC MSG CMD WRITE FILE SYNC Description Authenticate username password Close COM port Open a COM port Send control code to COM port driver Return a list of COM ports Discards all characters from the input buffer of the COM port Terminates pending read or write operations on the resource Read the COM port Read the COM port extended read Specify events to be monitored Configure COM port SET timeouts Asynchronous write no reply expected Synchronous write reply expected All commands expect a reply except for MSG CMD WRITE FILE ASYNC The command values are enum RemoteSvrMessages MSG CMD AUTHENTICATE MSG CMD GET COM PORTS MSG CMD CREATE FILE MSG CMD DEVICE IO CONTROL MSG CMD SET COMM MASK 1 HS G5 BO ee Annex Remote Server e 135 MSG CMD
80. evelopment Common Code common to more than one HRD component DDE Demos DDE demonstration programs source can be distributed Debug All executable code compiled in debug mode this is not shipped to end users Defaults Default files shipped in the HRD kits Examples are colour schemes and satellite data Doc Source for this document The PDF is in the Ship sub folder Annex Building HRD e 149 Tools Bu Iding Dundas Dundas Software 001 A fine programming library from http www dundas com subsequently sold to http www theultimatetoolbox com A license is required to use the contents of this folder for development See Dundas above HamRadioDeluxe The source code for ham Radio Deluxe HRDSats The source code for the HRD Sats DLL This may be redistributed it comes mostly from public domain sources and freely available work from other people notably Michael F Henry HRDSync The source code for the program used to synchronise multiple instances of HRD InstallShield The InstallShield folder contains the InstallShield DevStudio 9 project that builds the distribution kit A licence is needed for InstallShield products The project file is Ham Radio Deluxe ism Kit To build a kit run Make bat lame 3 92 Open source MP3 encoder used by the Audio Grabber mad 0 14 2b Source code to produce a DLL that converts MP3 files to WAV or PCM It is based on the open source library libmad madlldlib See mad 0 14 2b
81. frequencies Schedule Current Data F satellite Tracking Local JN46AT VO 52 Uplink ON Downlink ON Smelitas Observer 9 Ground Control 9 Schedule Curment Data Mutual Visib ity Visibil y Net Passes Single Pass Pict DDE e gt Pass Schedule for the next 24 hours Wed 21 00 Thu 00 00 Thu 03 00 Thu 15 00 Range in hours 7 This window shows the pass schedule for the satellites selected in the Satellites window all Satellite Tracking Local JN46AT VO 52 Uplink ON Downlink ON Sotelites Observer 9 Ground Control Schedule 9 Current Data Mutual Visibility Visibility NextPasses Single Pass Pict DOE gt Current sotelhte dala used for Ground Control and DDE Satellites Field Value g m AO 27 AO 51 FO 29 155 RS 22 G6 5050 amp OX A GO 32 Ratrash avery Satellite Visible Direction Azimuth Elevation Longitude Latitude Renge km Altitude km Range rate AOS LOS 010 V0 52 No Southbound 319 54 2 11 132 16 W 15 53 N 10 842 32 617 22 4 09459070 1 00 08 1 12 40 w seconds Defauk Viewer This window shows all computed information for a selected satellite This window provides the data for the Ground Control and DDE windows Press Viewer to display the data with the default text file viewer usually Notepad Satellite Tracking e 111 Mutual Visibility n Satellite Tracking Local JN46AT VO 52
82. gital is updated and the next digit to the right is made active Press Enter to display the Enter Frequency window ho Enter Frequency E A 13 231 000 MHz B 3 760 000 MHz amp ute apply Track Cancel Enter the new frequency and then press Apply If you check Auto apply then the new frequency is applied every time you make a change If you check Track this window is updated with changes made to the frequency display for example when you tune the radio manually Griffin etc Support for third party devices such as the Griffin Powermate 1s available see Accelerators on page 37 Tuning Dial Fine Tuning There are two fine tuning ranges Fine I and Fine II In the Tuning menu select Show Fine II to show the second range If you are only showing Fine I then the title 1s Fine Set the range from the Tuning menu or by clicking the button To change the mouse wheel step click the El button also set with the Mouse Wheel pane of Program Options on page 43 To change the frequency either e Drag the marker with the mouse and keep on dragging the bar will scroll to the left or right e Rotate the mouse wheel press Shift to increase the mouse wheel step by a factor of 2 press Ctrl to increase by a factor of 5 e Click in the tuning bar or on frequency text such as 4 235 0 Main Tuning RA The differences between a main tuning bar and a fine tuning bar are The
83. h the meter slider or the individual buttons SWR Comp ALC dB If you check the A ways update option then the S Meter is updated when you change frequency this results in slower performance Customise Layout e 33 Sliders Appearance A Customise Layout f PAT EEE if 7 Schemes Layout Buttons Faceplate Frequency Meters sliders Appearance Sliders Layout Tuning Dial Defines the appearance of slider controls on the radio display Options Automatic colours Rounded appearance AF gain 25 RF qain 50 IF shift 28 Custom Colours amp Font Inside Border Channel Face Channel Text Gripper Face Gripper Text Advanced _ Apply custom slider colours to sliders in the advanced options lists If supported by your radio sliders are displayed at the bottom of the display Here you define the appearance of the sliders These colours are optionally applied to the sliders in the Advanced selection windows select Advanced from the View menu Sliders Layout A Customise Layout Schemes Layout Buttons Faceplate Frequency Meters Sliders Appearance Sliders Layout Tuning Dial Defines the layout of slider controls on the radio display Layout S Defaut Aki OAl2 AF gain y RF gain Noise blanker y Noise reduction Squelch IF shift If your radio is not in the listthen no sliders are available Oat3 QOAt4 OAIS
84. http hrd ham radio ch downloads html for A basic guide acre M fo CAT and Audio interfacing which contains many designs for both CAT and COM Part Remote w J al for use with Ham Radio Speed Company Cl Add BA Select your radio manufacturer from the drop down list The Dem o Matic radios do not require a COM port they are for demonstrating HRD when you do not have Flow control Interface power IwIpTR MIETS a suitable radio available FiexRadio you must install the virtual serial ort drivers from Philip Covington NSVE 1 Dem o matic The Dem o matic radios do not need cables simply select Dem o matic in the Company dropdown select an option in the Radio dropdown and then press Connect They are ideal for demonstrating HRD when you do not have a suitable radio available Options Company Select your radio manufacturer from the drop down list First Steps e 17 FlexRadio you must install the virtual serial port drivers from Philip Covington N8VB These are used to provide the connection between HRD and the PowerSDR sofware that must be running before you try to create the connection with HRD More information is available from http www flex radio com ICOM disable the CI V Transceive option for best performance Kenwood make sure Packet communication mode is switched OFF if supported Most Kenwood radios require CTS and RTS to be ON for flow control Radio Select your radio model from the
85. ined by CSIDL APPDATA this is the file system directory that serves as a common repository for application specific data A typical path 1s C Documents and Settings username Application Data Simon Brown HB9DRV Ham Radio Deluxe You will not normally need to directly access the files in this folder File Description CSS Cascading style sheets used by HTML export options for example in Logbook Analysis HRD Logbook mdb Logbook database opt Optional schemes see Schemes on page 27 HRD Bands 02 txt Band layouts HRD Countries txt A default Log Windows country file HRD Custom Defs Custom CAT commands for a specific radio see CAT radio txt Commands on page 83 Annex Settings e 139 Archiving HRD Favourites 01 txt See Favourites on page 65 HRD Logbook Analysis TBA Defns txt HRD Macros TS Macro definitions see Macros on page 83 480 txt HRD Parallel Port Parallel port definitions see Auxiliary Switching on page Defns txt 49 HRD Satellite Used by Ground Control on page 105 contains a list of Definitions txt satellites and associated frequencies and modes The Archive option in the Tools menu takes a copy of the registry values and files used by all HRD programs HRD PSK31 Deluxe Mapper and copies them to another folder w Archive Copy all HAD settings to the folder of your choice From HAD Settings Folder LA Documents and Settings simon Application Cata Simon Brown HBSIDR
86. ing The HRD Remote Server files are e HRDRemoteSvr exe the executable e HRDRemoteSvr cfg configuration file and e HRDRemoteSvr README txt essential reading To install the service select Remote Service from the Tools gt Programs menu Remote Server e 91 Configuring hal Remote Server Configuration Help The status ofthe HRD Remote Server on this computer The service must be started for normal operation Service name HRD RemoteSvr Display name Ham Radio Deluxe Remote Server Configuration D Ham Radio Debug HADRemoteSvr cfg Logfile D Ham Radio Release HRD RemoteSwr 0511 November 2005 t Last started 2005 11 11 03 08 08 Status stopped 1 0 Introduction The HRD Remote Server enables a connection between Ham Radio Deluxe and a radio connected to a remote computer which can be contacted via TCP IP 1 1 Requirements The remote computer must be running Windows NT that is NT 4 0 2000 2003 or XP Windows 95 98 and various flavours thereof are nof eunnnorfend Press Install to install the service and then press Start to start the service You can start the Windows Services applet Start Settings Control Panel Administrative Tools Services to modify the properties of the service for example disabling automatic startup Ham Radio Deluxe Remote Server Properties Local Computer General Log On Recovery Dependencies Service name HRD RemoteSwr Display na
87. is no sub command then this field must be left empty Optional e Data if the command supplies data for example setting a new frequency or mode then enter the values in these fields If there is no data for the command then these fields must be left empty Examples These examples show a CI V address of 6A the default for the IC 7800 Change this to the CI V address assigned to your radio Test Description Read Command is 03 no sub command or data these fields must be left frequency empty The returned data 1s e FEFE preamble e EO Controller address e 6A IC 7800 CI V address e 03 Command number e 89 38 06 07 00 frequency in BCD format e FD end of message Read Mode Command is 04 no sub command or data these fields must be left empty The returned data is e FEFE preamble e EO Controller address e 6A IC 7800 CI V address e 04 Command number e 0001 mode e FD end of message Read S Meter Command is 15 sub command is 02 There is no data these fields must be left empty The returned data 1s e FEFE preamble e EO Controller address e 6A IC 7800 CI V address e 15 Command number e 02 Sub command number e 0109 s meter value e FD end of message Mode Filter A common problem is determining the data returned for the possible mode and filter combinations Annex Command Tester e 129 To list all combinations follow the following steps for each mode and filter co
88. is sent to the host after it has been sent in Morse This allows the host to reconcile differences in timing introduced by WinKey s internal 32 byte serial buffer Note that only letters and not buffered commands with their parameters or wordspaces are echoed back to the host K1EL WinKey e 77 Speeds Keyer speeds Options Pin Config Macros Logfile Help Keyer min Keyer max Speed pat min Speed pot max Track changes Farnsworth JEnable With Keyer min and Keyer max you set the range available in the WinKey main window similarly with Speed pot min and Speed pot max you set the range available with the potentiometer mounted on the top of the WinKey enclosure Farnsworth speed is the speed at which characters are actually sent Options Keyer Speeds Options Pin Config Macros Logfile Help 1st extension Ome Weighting 7j PTT Lead 7j PTT Tail El Compensation O ms switch paint BO s Ar dr 3 4 gt Dit Dah ratio 1 3 00 bsp Time Sidetone 752 Hz ei O13 lsk O20 Fin 5 must be setto sidetone wordsp ce before ending paddle insertion These options define the shape of the transmitted signal Ist Extension This addresses a problem often encountered when keying older transceivers that have a slow break in response Due to a slow receive to transmit changeover time the first dit or dah of a letter sequence can be chopped and reduced in
89. izes ta 2046 2040 setting speed to 1200 n 0 1 Setting timeouts setting DTE clearing RIS Echoback test sent HRD BY HBUDEV receive gt fin Cres To help diagnose problems use the Logfile window The Viewer option displays the contents of the window in your default text file txt editor If you check Trace then all traffic over the COM port is logged Help Keyer Speeds Options Pin Config Macros Logfile Harn Radio Deluxe supports the vinkey device from KIEL see http Aaa k del com WYinkey is a R5 232 CVV generator for Windows based applications Prosign Key Assignments no NER DN Some basic help text specifically the Prosign key assignments Prosign Assignments RR 7 DN S SX KN l WG AA KN lt AR KK BT AR gt SK DU AC KIEL WinKey e 81 Macros Introduction HRD supports two types of custom definitions e CAT commands and e Combinations of standard HRD input fields Macros are selected from the Macros pane in the Selection window CAT Commands A CAT command macro is a command that you define yourself containing one CAT commands as describer in your radio s handbook The commands you enter must be supported by your radio Use CAT commands to add support not provided by the HRD interface Manager Either press Manager in the Macros CAT Commands pane or select CAT Command Manager from the Macros menu CAT Command Manager TS 480 Define ext
90. l messages search and retrieve archived data and access data from information databases among its many features From http www dxcluster org by Chuck K6PBT HRD supports e OH2AQ web based cluster the original and most widely used e HRD s own web based cluster e Direct connections to a DX Spider node using a DX cluster client which in turn uses the telnet protocol The OH2AQ and HRD clusters are available using just your web browser DX Cluster e 59 OH2AQ 3 DX Summit Microsoft Internet Explorer Fe Edt Took Help Yew Favorites p 24995 0 RPIZ WBSUZ Still here Jerry 2042 22 Dec NITE 240895 1 BRI2 WRSUZ calling cq 2009 22 Dec NOSZ 9895 0 PIZ WBUZ 001 22 Dec N9 IW 24950 0 BIZ WBRSZ jerry tnx for 12m 1956 22 Dec NEM A ES ETJE 294930 0 PIZ WBSZ 85 plus 10 into AZ 1956 zz Dec 250 1 000 MEVA 24950 0 BIZ WEIZ 1954 22 3 Dec 10 000 KISO 4095 0 TIBCBT 1951 zz Dec DE EL 2 967 0 EAS OZSBF 1212 22 Dec W TA 24950 0 N7O0D TEST 1857 21 Dec sP3psc Q 24895 1 RHOHZ CO BIG SIGNAL 0853 21 Dec RM HZ 24095 0 RH HZ CQ test prop 0636 21 Dec UPAMIX 249353 0 VEINS 58 na 036 2136 ZU Dec i WPANIN 249353 0 VETNS 29 NHA 36 2012 20 Dec 000 KAKAL B 24935 0 VETHS strong in GA 2019 20 nec WO Vir own ub5RY 24935 0 vETNS 2006 20 nec een S KAZFIR 24030 0 Yv5B B 1912 20 Dec KAZFIR 24930 0 ZS556DN BR 1910 20 Dec La z bc AG DLTYS 9940 0 DL IRD eq on beacon fb idea 1008 1 T
91. le to provide the current level of support West Mountain Radio ES 25 EN amp SignaLink move sta On Pwr Delay Var PIT pm i amp Sound Card Radio Interface Ls martin lynch amp sons rrric nc d ng Requirements Computer You can run HRD on any Windows 98 or NT 2K XP computer There will never be a LINUX or Macintosh native version HRD 1s known to run under Wine for LINUX and PC emulators for the Macintosh I may be crazy undertaking a project like this in my spare time I am not deep stir fry serve in a bun with extra chilies crazy The code is not open source it cannot be ported to Linux and will never be released as some of the code is protected under copyright and if released will land the author with a nice big legal fee Supported Radios You don t need a radio HRD comes with built in Dem o matic radio support FTD X 9000 K2 Orion TS 480 TS 570 and TS 2000 HRD currently supports these real radios e Flecraft K2 e FlexRadio SDR 1000 e ICOM IC 7000 IC 703 IC 706 IC 706MKkII IC 706MkHG IC 707 IC 718 IC 725 IC 726 IC 728 IC 729 IC 735 IC 736 IC 737 1C 738 IC 7400 IC 746 IC 746Pro IC 751A IC 751A Piexx IC 756 IC 756Pro IC 756ProH IC 756Prolll IC 761 IC 765 IC 775DSP IC 7800 IC 781 IC 821H IC 910H IC R10 IC R20 IC R75 IC R8500 PCR 1000 e Kenwood R 5000 TS 140S TS 2000 TS 4405 TS 450S TS 480 TS 50S TS 570 TS 605 TS 680
92. lected satellite Vis Satellites V0 52 AOS A0S Azi AO 27 Wed 21 Dec 2005 21 23 04 137 22 AO 5 Wed 21 Dec 2005 22 59 07 190 48 FO 29 Thu 22 Dec 2005 00 41 43 270 60 GO 32 Thu 22 Dec 7005 09 10 23 55 00 55 Thu 22 Dec 2005 10 43 54 19 96 RS 22 Thu 22 Dec 2005 12 20 21 1 89 Thu 22 Dec 2005 13 59 01 333 84 Thu 22 Dec 2005 20 09 09 993 92 Thu 22 Dec 2005 21 41 52 147 90 Thu 22 Dec 2005 23 18 45 201 93 Fri 23 Dec 2005 09 28 17 43 20 Fri 23 Dec 2005 11 02 59 16 08 Fri 23 Dec 2005 12 39 42 358 21 Fri 23 Dec 2005 20 27 11 102 99 Fri 23 Dec 2005 00 49 158 26 Fri 23 Dec 2005 38 36 214 21 Sat 24 Dec 2005 09 46 47 35 43 Sat 24 Dec 2005 22 07 12 44 Sat 24 Dec 2005 12 59 08 54 13 Sat 24 Dec 2005 20 45 28 114 88 E o u Max Elev Azimuth Duration 35 36 29 82 bb 45 12 32 11 54 31 44 254 30 12 47 44 25 0 46 282 48 2 42 15 22 1 65 83 55 4 59 56 39 31 15 133 57 12 45 2 2 21 54 271 41 11 59 03 09 1 26 315 25 4 08 17 19 5 80 49 66 5 10 54 52 44 51 70 40 13 00 30 52 20 809 267 56 12 07 36 2 vee 91 599 B 10 16 BO 158 49 13 01 2 50 36 281 41 11 11 36 54 92 43 36 9 43 14 10 74 28 13 16 149 71 271 13 11 06 1 55 49 3 49 99 22 10 02 2331 76 19B 18 13 04 09 60 289 46 10 07 4 1 55 22 09 43 16 10 54 Sat 24 Dec 2005 22 19 55 168 71 1331 77 20 256 22 13 20 Sat 24 Dec 2005 23 50 45 227 94 08 5 274 06 9 37 Sun 25 Dec 2005 05 32 29
93. lected you can check nclude Title to add the Dropdown button s title 1f there 1s room Meters A Customise Layout Schemes Layout Buttons Faceplate Frequency Meters Sliders Appearance Sliders Layout Tuning Dial Defines the appearance ofthe bar meters on the radio display Sb HELLELETETLETETITL v Show peak reading s 20 dd S 60 LELLLLLLTEELELELELELEELEEE S Meter TX mode Main PWR The value must be supported by the radio High Position Sub REF Kenwood radios display the value selected with the Meter slider TS 480 TS 2000 or the SWR Comp ALC dB buttons Colours S Meater Updates Background Always update when changing frequency slower performance The design aim of the bar meters was heavily influenced by my fine Sony stereo still giving fine service here in the HRD R amp R suite after some 15 years of abuse The Background and Text colours should be obvious There are three graduation colours e Bars Low the first bar colour e Bars High the colour at the position set by the High Position slider and e Bars Free the colour for the free empty bars If you check Show peak reading the recent peak value is displayed When HRD is in TX mode the S Meter value is replaced by the value selected in the Main and Sub dropdowns the value you select must be displayed by HRD in the upper right hand corner of the display For Kenwood radios the value to be displayed is selected wit
94. length Adding a fixed amount to the first element of a sequence can compensate for this For example an R would be sent with the first dit elongated but the subsequent dah dit sent normally The compensation amount is transceiver dependent and is generally independent of sending speed Note though that this is usually only a noticeable problem at higher CW speeds gt 25 WPM Compensation This allows a fixed amount to be added to the length of all dits and dahs QSK keying on modern transceivers can cause shortening of the dit and dah elements that is especially noticeable at high speeds WinKey allows the length of the dit and dah elements to be increased uniformly to compensate for this The adjustments are made in units of one millisecond steps The maximum adjustment is 250 msecs Key compensation is very similar to Weighting in that any adjustment added to the dits and dahs is subtracted from the spacing so the speed is not changed The difference between weighting and compensation is that compensation is independent of speed so if 10 msec of key compensation 1s selected 10 msec will be always be added regardless of speed So be careful at high speeds and large values of key compensation you may end up with no inter element space Switchpoint Controls when WinKey will start looking for a new paddle press after sensing the current one If there is not enough delay the keyer will send unwanted dits or dahs if there is too much delay it
95. lites data option Data is saved in txt files Entries must start with http Ham Radio Deluxe only supports the two line format for example AO 40 1 26609U 00072B 03309 95521145 00000007 00000 0 00000 0 O 3675 2 26609 9 9303 22 9678 7977178 228 8131 28 6254 1 25597973 13867 Se Fe FR FR SR SR FR SR SR SR OR SRR HEHEHE TEIE TEIE TEIE TEIE TEIE TEE TEIE TEIE TEIE IEE TEIE TEIE TEIE IEE TEIE IEE TEIE EE TEIE EE TEIE IEE TEIE EE TEIE EE TEI EE EEE HH HHHHEHE when you change this list you should delete old files which are no longer being used JET EEEE EEEE EEEE TE EE EEEE EEEE EEEE EEEE E EE EEEE EEHEEHE From AMSAT recommended for Amateur radio satellites http www amsat org amsat ftp keps current nasabare txt From Celestrak Remove the comment to add these FE TR IR TR SR http www celestrak com NORAD elements amateur txt http www celestrak com NORAD elements goes txt http www celestrak com NORAD elements stations txt http www celestrak com NORAD e lements visual txt http www celestrak com NORAD elements weather txt New satellite data files can be downloaded from the Internet for example from http www amsat org or from http www celestrak com maintained by T S Kelso The only supported file format 1s two line element sets for example AO 7 1 07530U 74089B 03265 96753648 00000029 00000 0 10000 3 0 2356 2 07530 101 7328 311 4393 0012255 21 1784 33
96. lly acceptable unless you are recording a WFM broadcast Soundcard Audio Grabber Record Folder Quality Soundcard Tags Record fram Changes are applied when you start recording Select the soundcard that you are recoding from Tags Audio Grabber Record Arist Album Title Here you see the values stored in the MP3 tags To change the values just add the new text and then press Apply Audio Browser Use the audio browser to playback MP3 files Audio Browser MP3 Files LA Documents and Settings simon Application Data Simon Brown Audio select MP3 player Ham Radio Deluxe he MP3 Player speed 3 Iv Repeat Play as Wawe file Volume rom J To 0 00 000 3 Audio Grabber ft Irtanview Free File Artist Album Title HAD 2005 12 28 175102 mp3 Ts 460 28 18 2005 16 51 UTC 14 235 000 USB HAD 2005 12 28 175353 mp3 T5 450 28 12 2005 16 53 UTC 14 235 000 USB HAD 2005 12 28 180548 mp3 TS 480 28 12 2005 1 06 UTC 14 235 000 USB HAD 2005 12 28 180740 mp3 T5 450 28 12 2005 1707 UTC 14 235 000 USB 3 Select the folder to browse Select default folder Refresh the current folder Select MP3 player a basic MP3 player 1s built into HRD however you can select an alternate player such as the excellent Windows Media Player Press Default to select the default player Peter PHIPH came across IrfanView an excellent utility MP3 Player Options Select a
97. mbination e Select the Mode and Filter on your rig using the rig buttons and controls e Enter a value in the Command Tester Title field which corresponds to the mode and filter selected in 1 above for example Mode USB Filter Wide e Enter a command of 04 clear the sub command and data fields e Press Send When you have finished press Save to save the contents of the Results window to a file which you can forward to the Ham Radio Deluxe development team Other Follow the logic in Mode Filter above for other commands which you want to investigate e Select the option on your rig using the rig buttons and controls e Entera value in the Command Tester Title field that corresponds to the option you are investigating e Referring to your rig s handbook enter the command sub command and data value as appropriate to read the rig s current value or set a new value If there is no sub command or data then these fields must be left empty e Press Send Yaesu starting with the FTDX 9000 Yaesu has changed the CAT protocol to one very similar to that used by Kenwood So if you are fortunate enough to have the FTDX 9000 please use the Kenwood commands The example below uses the FT 817 The data received from the radio is always shown in hexadecimal The overall format of Yaesu commands is always P1 P4 OpCode the actual commands and the data returned from the rig depends on the model and also on the EPROM revision le
98. me Hem Radio Deluxe Remote Server The Ham Radio Deluxe remote server www ham Description radio ch Path to executable CAProgram Files Amateur Radio Ham Radio DeluxeHRDRemoteSvr exe Startup type Automatic Service status stopped Y ou can specify the start parameters that apply when you startthe service from here Start parameters a Cosme Press Configure to edit HRDRemoteSvr cfg which contains the service configuration Ham Radio Deluxe Remote Access Server copright c 2005 by simon Brown HB9DRV Note this only runs on windows NT 2K XxP It does not run on windows 95 98 ME SE This file defines the configuration of the Remote Access server The format of each entry is TOKEN VALUE Supported tokens COM PORT USER to USER20 WELCOME A comma separated list of com porc that are returned If not defined then the server returns a list of all coM ports available on the computer COMIl COM2 COM3 COM4 COMI The TCP IP port on which the server listens for connections If not defined then the default value of 7805 is used Select any port number you want which is not in use by other programs ot tet pe ls ee Fe Fe db db db dE dE EE EE dE H HHHH dE E RT 7805 js eh te these are case insensitive Spaces are removed from the beginning and end of the username and password The format is USERX username password options where options is a list of case insensitive tok
99. n lt 0x0d gt is not added Please read your operating manual for command information When you enter x the format switches to binary mode two hexadecimal characters per byte Only enter x once even if entering more than one byte of data Argonaut Set mode to LSB M2 oet mode ro USB zu AMI oer Split mode On sest OxU oct split mode SEE Ox00 Jupiter Set mode to LSB M2 oet mode TO USB MI Set APR Galin LO 352 oct U20 sel fitter to 90H wt MED You can define more than one command to do this start each command on a new line Macros e 85 Input Fields Special Commands Comment Some interesting text Pause of 250 ms 250 Yaesu starting with the FTDX 9000 Yaesu has changed the CAT protocol to one very similar to that used by Kenwood So if you are fortunate enough to have the FTDX 9000 please use the Kenwood commands see Elecraft and Kenwood on page 84 Each Yaesu command consists of five bytes The bytes are defined in the order in which they are sent to the radio You must add a between each byte Each command consists of four bytes of data and an OpCode The order in which P1 P4 are shown in your operating manual does not matter here there are difference between Yaesu radios just remember that the bytes are defined in the order in which they are sent to the radio Please read your operating manual for command information FT 817 Set mode to LSB 00 00 00 00
100. n of one to four satellites above the surface of the planet Satellite Tracking e 115 DDE I Satellite Tracking Local JN46AT VO 52 Uplink ON Downlink ON Sotelites 9 Observer Ground Control Schedule CurentData Mutual Visibility Visibility NextPasses Single Pass Pict DOE gt DDE Server contigureton Ophonel Format Nove The DOE Server makes satelite dela available tor other programs P Sen m gt sn This rs optonol start he ODE Server only if required by a 3rd perty program for example rotehor control Field Value DDE Service NFW32 DDE Topic NFW_DATA DDE Item NFW_SERVER NFW SERVER VO 52 AZ 315 9 EL 58 4 RR 3 4728306546 AH N This window controls the DDE server If you want to use HRD s data with another program you must start HRD s DDE Server Select the DDE format currently only Nova is supported Press Start to start the DDE server Synchroniser Introduction Starting The synchronizer is used to control two or more radios where a common frequency 1s shared by using the Dynamic Data Exchange DDE mechanism For each radio you are using you start an instance of HRD one instance is the Master the rest are the S aves the slaves receive frequency and mode information from the master Start the Synchroniser from the Tools Programs menu then press Scan to find the active HRD instances i HRD Synchroniser Active HAD Instances HUHUHBHHHHEHH HAD Maste
101. nable Qut Of Band Enable In band Qut of band Mouse Wheel Ow Fine CV Hot Other Fine Other Hot Advanced values Tree expand Toolbars Font Updates Reminder Accelerators Comms COMPort TX Docking Panes ICOM Calibration Info Modes Info Options Internet Out Of Band Mouse Wheel Selection Window Toolbars Updates ERS a Patek usta ide NS Bones Defines options affecting the appearance and operation ofthe selection window Show numeric value in Advanced options Showthe Options icon in Advanced lists restartto see changes The appearance and operation of the selection window single click normally the Favourites tree folders are opened closed with a double click Check this option to enable single click operation Show numeric value the Select Windows s Advanced slider values are optionally superimposed on the slider Show the Options icon historical support for the version 2 Advanced slider look and feel Program Options e 43 Toolbars A Options Switch Off Polling COM Port TX RTS DTR Both None Docking Panes Appearance ICOM Calibration S Meter Info Modes Mapping Info Options Supported Internet Enable Out Of Band Enable In band Out of band Mouse Wheel CW Fine C Hot Other Fine Other Hot Selection Window Advanced values Font Tree vues a v Accelerators Comms COM Port TX DockingPanes
102. nect to a DX Spider cluster for example GB7MBC in sunny Morecambe or HB9DRV in snowy Laax DX Cluster e 61 Options Connecting to gb7mbc spoo org port 6000 Warning Computer Misuse Act 1990 UK applies This system may only be accessed by Radio Amateurs using their real callsigns and in accordance with their jurisdiction s licensing conditions All connections to this system are recorded login gd4eli Connected to GB7MBC Hello Simon this is GB7MBC in Morecambe Lancashire running DXSpider V1 52 build 58 404 Welcome to GB7MEC the North West DX Cluster in IO84NB Your SysOps are Ian GOVGS and Linda GOYLM 01524 421164 To get more information please type MOTD To read our usage policy please type POLICY Linda and Ian would like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Peaceful New Year Many thanks for your support this year Cluster 306 nodes 18 local 2574 total users Max users 2574 Uptime 0 02 03 GD4ELI de GB7MBC 23 Dec 2005 1005Z dxspider gt DX de IK1XVO 14202 243XA special call 1009Z JN35 DX de F8CES 7086 FSPRR P dmf55012 moulin de VILLI 1007Z DX de 9A2F 18160 HZ1IK Manfred cq 1009z JN66 DX de DM2AUO 18083 4S7NE nelson 1011Z DX de VEITE 3799 LABWEA cqdx 1009Z Here GDAELI has logged on to GB7MBC DX spots are displayed in this window as they are received and are sent to the DX Cluster window for immediate display Custom Top 9 DX spots on Spotter
103. nspiration Manager Obviously Internet Explorer had an influence here as most computer users have experience with web browsers a conscious decision was made to use familiar concepts Favourite definitions are selected from the Favourites pane in the Selection window Start the manager from the Favourites menu or the Favourites pane in the Selection window It is designed to be easy to use let s see Manage Favourites 85 entries To create anew top level root folder press New Root To create a new child folder press New Folder To copy delete edit or move an entry 1 select the entry 2 press Copy Del Edit or Move 3 160m 49 1 81 MHz 49 1 83 MHz Q9 1 93 MHz C 80m Cy fim mem UK Q9 5 258 5 MHz FA 9 52785 MHz FB 9 52885 MHz FC 9 5388 5 MHz FE 9 5 4035 MHz FM aE 23 US C 40m C 20m 15m 10m nS ME 49 Cw Calling 49 SSB Calling a m C Dcm G Air Y GRP 3 PSK31 Satellites New Root create a new top level root folder Folders are not saved if they are empty no child folders or definitions New Folder create a new folder as a child of the currently selected folder Favourites e 65 Sort Folder sort the entries in the currently selected folder e By title e By ascending frequency or e By descending frequency Add add a new definition Enter new values in the fields below then click OK Repeater offsets are not yet supported
104. o indicate that a bit has a value of 1 a charge of 5 volts is sent through the correct pin No charge on a pin indicates a value of 0 This is a simple but highly effective way to transmit digital information over an analog cable in real time The manager window is invoked from the Tools gt Parallel Port menu Definitions Each definition consists of e X Enabled selection if not checked then the definition is ignored when Ham Radio Deluxe detects a new frequency The definition is still shown in the selection window if this option is enabled e Title a description of the antenna or component that will be switched when the entry is selected Auxiliary Switching e 49 e e To the upper end of the e Port the LPT port to be e DO0 D7 the parallel port From the lower end of the frequency range frequency range switched by the definition data bit settings each bit 1s either 1 on or 0 off DO is pin 2 D7 is pin 9 Port Address The default port addresses for LPT1 LPT2 and LPT3 are 0378 0278 and 03BC respectively If your computer has a different configuration just select the address that corresponds to the port You will find the port address via the Device Manager settings display located in the System control panel applet System Properties General Computer Name Hardware Advanced Automatic Updates Remote Device Manager of any device
105. ock format Clock Format Left Format Date Time COGMT None None 15 55 eur 8 Long Long C0155544 8 Local CO Short ISO 8 Short Position a ecember Lett BO ber 2005 15 55 CO Right What would a radio be without buttons Press a button to active the option If it is a button where the option state can be read from the radio for example the selected VFO the button indicates whether the option is currently selected This should be obvious Dropdowns Mode USB v AGC Fast v When to press a dropdown button a popup menu is displayed Select an option or press escape If possible the dropdown displays the current selected option Again this should be obvious Sliders Z DLL en oe ine Cy Select the sliders that are displayed with the Sliders Layout pane of Customise Layout see page 34 Use the mouse to adjust a slider value In the View menu select whether sliders are displayed with the Slider Controls option Customise Layout Introduction Schemes Used to define the appearance of the radio display Customise Layout 1s selected from the Tools menu or by pressing the Customise button A Customise Layout Schemes Layout Buttons Faceplate Frequency Meters Sliders Appearance Sliders Layout Tuning Dial Your Ham Radio Deluxe schemes and settings are stored in CADocuments and Settings Simon Application Data Simon Brown HB8DRs AHam Radio Deluxe
106. oniser As soon as you check a slave the slave s frequency and mode are updated with the current values from the master every time the master frequency and or mode change they are sent to the slave for so long as the slave option remains checked Dual Radio Satellite Tracking Refer to Satellite Tracking on page 101 specifically Ground Control on page 105 If you are using two radios for satellite tracking for example two FT 817 or IC 7000 1 Start an instance of HRD for each radio connect to the radios 2 Select an instance to use as the master in this example the radio used for receive 3 In the master receive instance e Start the display e Enter transmit and receive frequency information for the satellite you are tracking e Check the RX VFO do not check a TX VFO as this instance will not be used for transmit 4 Start the Synchroniser e Master is the receive instance e Slave is the transmit instance e Select the Satellite uplink option for Frequency and Mode so that the slave receives the frequency and mode used for transmit as computer by the Master instance The slave will now be updated with the transmit frequency and mode for transmit every time it changes in the master instance Synchroniser e 119 3 Party Programs Introduction HRD supports 3rd party programs such as logbooks via a virtual serial port See also DDE Support on page 57 An example of a virtual serial port is avail
107. osition now has a new value USB Hiding Hide dropdowns hides the dropdown buttons to the right of the layout window releasing two columns where you can assign new button definitions Hide status texts hides the three top left meters 1 2 3 and the status text area underneath releasing two columns where you can assign new button definitions Moving Entries Move the selected entry by simply dragging it with the mouse or by using the four arrow buttons Removing Entries To remove an entry either drag it into the Unassigned list or right click on the button and select Clear from the popup menu Dropdowns Select the dropdown menu and then simply drag an entry to an unused location in the display If you drag to a location that already has a definition the current definition is removed if a standard button it is returned to the unassigned list Unassigned Entries in the Unassigned list are standard buttons that are not currently displayed Simply drag an entry to an unused location in the display If you drag to a location that already has a definition the current definition is removed if a standard button it is returned to the Unassigned list Styles In the Buttons pane page 30 you define up to seven button styles shown here in the Button Styles group To assign a style to a button either e Drag the style over the button or e Click a style to apply it to the currently selected blinking button Sa
108. p LLL Define Button Button Styles Dropdowns Unassigned Click on an entry drag over a button release Sonden y des VFOA AGC J Off Fast Slow or Dropdown Button CAT Command Macro notmapped RN meer B s ommo ees Deae Selected a tere gt HRD is a data driven program For each radio there is a table of supported commands and associated button dropdown slider names The layout order 1s more or less alphabetical An early complaint was that the buttons positions were not user definable as a result the Layout window was designed Don t be put off by the amount of information in this window take it slowly and read the information here The layout definition is saved on a per radio basis in the registry Dropdown Button CAT Command Macros You can create new buttons for example to create a USB button from the Mode dropdown e Select an empty button position the selected entry will start to blink you can reposition this button later e Press Select above the Save and Load buttons e Inthe Configure Button Mapping window select Mode USB and enter the text to appear on the new button then press OK Configure Button Mapping Enter the text displayed on the button then select the option to which itis mapped The button text must not be in use by another button Mapped entry Button text Max 10 characters e The previously empty button p
109. r Master lo TS 460 Demo m Frequency ERE NEEEEER Etui p De is ses md S pb Y oe i Clear Help Close Freq ex 145 798 079 Mode USB Connected to instance 1 Radio Ee Demo Freg i221 145 795 0879 Mode USB Connected ta instance 2 Radio TS 2000 Demo Freg 22 2 145 790 0879 Made USB Master Disconnected from instance 0 Select the master instance supplied the frequency and mode and then press Start Synchroniser e 117 mi HRD Synchroniser eai E Active HAD Instances HBHHHHEH HELD Master TS 480 Demo Master a Stop Frequency Radio 145 798 695 HELD Slaves des ms 93 nds O4 gs ds d Bd 5 Refresh Clear Help Close Radio Ts 450 Demo Freg sens 145 790 079 Mode USB Connected ta instance 1 Radio Ke Demo Freg 145 790 079 Mode USB Connected to instance 2 Radia TS 2000 Demo Freg 145 795 0879 Mode USB In the Frequency and Mode dropdowns you select the corresponding source from the HRD master instance e Radio as seen on the main HRD display e Transverter frequency is taken from the Transverter window selected from the Tools menu e Satellite uplink the uplink frequency and mode see Ground Control on page 105 e Satellite downlink the downlink frequency and mode see Ground Control on page 105 In the HRD Slaves group box check the instances to be controlled by the Synchr
110. ra CAT commands these are radia specific Title CAT Commandis Description p Load fram File Press New to create a new command definition Macros e 83 In this example a Kenwood command is defined for the TS 480 The mode is set to USB and the frequency to 50 150 MHz In the Title field enter 50 150 MHz USB In the CAT Command field enter Set mode to USB MD2 Set frequency to 50 150 MHz FA00050150000 In the Description field enter Change frequency to 50 150 MHz mode to USB CAT Command Definition Enter a new definition then press OK Title 50 150 MHz USB CAT Command Set mode to Usb MD 2 set frequency to 50 150 MHz FAQOOSO150000 Description Change frequency to 50 150 MHz mode ta USB 5 Elecraft and Kenwood Each command consists of 2 alphabetical characters lower or upper case and optional parameters Please read your operating manual for command information The terminating semicolon 1 Is not necessary itis added automatically TS 480 Set mode to LSB Cancel Now press OK The new definition is added to the list in the Manager window Protocols Elecraft and Kenwood Each command consists of 2 alphabetical characters lower or upper case and optional parameters Please read your operating manual for command information The terminating semicolon is not necessary it is added automatically TS 480 sert mode to LSB s sxsa2 MDL oer mode to
111. radio control program Other culprits are PDA and mobile phone connections Even if you have disconnected a device from a COM port you must make sure that the software is no longer running One connected HRD reads the radio s frequency to ensure that the options you selected are correct If you see the error below then HRD failed to read the radio s frequency uj IC 7800 COM7 19200 Failed to read frequency Make sure your radio is switched on and not in memory mode If you are using a homemade non standard cable you may need to select RTS and or DTR If HRD can read the frequency the Connect window is replaced with the main radio display you are now using HRD If HRD cannot read the frequency then check e Correct COM port is selected e Speed on radio is the same as the speed selected in HRD e Your cable you may have a NULL modem cable when a normal serial cable 1s needed e Cable is connected correctly to your PC you may have more than one COM port e DTR RTS are selected if required to power an active cable such as CT 62 or a cable from third party provider If you still can t get started refer to e Annex Command Tester on page 125 and e Annex Portmon on page 133 What s Next A taste of what s to come later in this guide Appearance Set the appearance e From the View menu select Colour Schemes e Select Customise Layout and Program Options from the Tools menu First Steps e 19 Radio Displa
112. range is fixed defined by the gainst the list of definitions Radio Display e 23 e Band Layouts see page 49 e The bar does not automatically scroll to the left or right Band Selection The Band Section buttons are shown between the Fine and Main layouts The buttons are e ALT e BSP e Band buttons 160m 80 10m ALT only displayed if you have two VFO s displayed for example Kenwood TS 2000 switches between the main and alternate second VFO When highlighted you are tuning the second VFO with the tuning dial BSP bandspread when you press BSP a new layout is dynamically created The current band is split into multiple segments for example the 20m band 14 MHz 14 350 MHz can be split into 7 segments each of 50 kHz To restore the previous layout press BSP and select Off The band buttons select the corresponding band the last used frequency and mode for the band are restored Display Scroll E If there is not enough room to display all the frequency ranges defined in the current band layout use this button to scroll the frequency ranges bands up or down Band Selection 160m 10m Region 1 The current band layout Click here to select a different layout 160m 10m Region 1 160m 10m Region 2 160m 10m Region 3 160m l cm G m 5 MHz bm Detail Broadcast eese Date amp Time 25 December 2005 11 40 Radio Display e 25 Click here to set the cl
113. rs and displays all serial and parallel port activity on a system It has advanced filtering and search capabilities that make it a powerful tool for exploring the way Windows works seeing how applications use ports or tracking down problems in system or application configurations Portmon works on NT 4 0 Win2K XP and Server 2003 Windows 95 and Windows 98 It is often useful to run Portmon when unexpected results are returned from a radio or other device such as a rotator or keyer The Steps e Close any programs connected to your radio or device being interrogated e Start Portmon exe e Make sure these options are set Menu Option State Comment Options Show Time ON Options Show HEX ON if ICOM Yaesu or TenTec OFF if Elecraft Kenwood ON if you are not sure I read hex Options Clock Time OFF Computer Select your local computer Capture Ports The COM port where you have connected the interface to your radio select only one COM port to avoid confusion Capture Capture Events ON e Start HRD then connect to your radio e Let HRD run for about 60 seconds while you perform your tests e Stop HRD File menu Disconnect Annex Portmon e 133 e In Portmon set the Capture Capture Events option to OFF e Save the logfile to disk put into a zip file if possible and send to mailto simon hb9drv ch Sample Log For this example the Process and Port columns are not shown to save space The log shows the star
114. s Ham Radio Deluxe is free for radio amateurs and shortwave listeners commercial use requires a licence If you are a commercial non amateur user stop the installation now unless you have a licence Ham Radio Deluxe InstallShield Wizard Choose Destination Location Selectfolder where setup will install files Setup will install Ham Radio Deluxe in the following folder To install to this folder click Next To install to a different folder click Browse and select another folder Destination Folder C Program Filest Amateur Radio Ham Radio Deluxe InstallShield Cancel Select the folder where Ham Radio Deluxe will be installed the suggested default is usually sufficient Ham Radio Deluxe InstallShield Wizard Select Program Folder Please select a program folder Setup will add program icons to the Program Folder listed below You may type a new folder name or select one from the existing folders list Click Next to continue Program Folder Ham Radio Deluxe Existing Folders ArcSoft ShowBiz 2 Canon CD DVD Recorder Codejock Software ComponentOne Core FTP Creative CyberLink PowerDVD Games Ham Radio Deluxe he nstallShield L Select the folder in the Start menu where the Ham Radio Deluxe entries will be added the suggested default 1s usually sufficient Ham Radio Deluxe InstallShield Wizard Ready to Install the Program The wizard
115. s OK 8 Frequency 14 235 000 MHz Band Layout 160m 10m Region 1 Y Switch ON DOFF Always C Standard Button A B v Dropdown Button Mode LSB O Advanced Slider AF gain r i Value 0 O Delay millisecs 1 00 Cancel e Press OK Y our definition now contains two entries Enable Type Title alue Dropdown Button Mode USB Frequency 14 235 000 Press Save th s returns you to the Macros Manager Macros e 87 LA Macros Manager TS 480 Define macros settings are radio specific Each macro is a collection of definitions such as frequency buttons and sliders which are applied when you selectthe macro Example define a special filter Macros Simple Group Title Description Macros Simple 50 150 MHz USB Change frequency to 50 150 MI 50 150 MHz USB Save to File Delete m Load from File Press OK The window closes the Macros sub pane Macros Simple now contains your new macro Ea CAT Commands e Macros Simple Manager 5 Take Snapshot 4 0 150 MHz USB Snapshots The snapshot button creates a definition that contains the state of all input fields This is an easy way of preserving a known state of your radio once you have set it up exactly the way you want Quick Save Introduction Add Entry Markers This 1s a simple way of marking a frequency as being interesting you are monitoring
116. sary feature of a fully customizable radio program such as HRD is the definition of custom band layouts The IARU regions have own band plans there is no doubt that these will change in the future Consider also the traditionalist who has never owned a microphone in his life and is only interested in the CW portions of the bands he wants his own band layouts To start the Manager select Manager from the Bands menu w Band Layouts Ele Edit Status gt E Define your own band layouts Each layaut contains one or more frequency ranges example 1 8 MHz 2 0 MHz 3 5 MHz 3 8 MHz PIE MHz 71 MHz Status Layout kK 160m 10m Region 1 K 160m 10m Region z K 160m 10m Region 3 OK 160m 70cm OK B m 5 MHz OK Bm Detail K Broadcast K Low Freq OK Shortwave K WHF UHF Here you see the existing definitions In the Edit menu you have the expected New Copy Modify and Delete options I amp TES T ES IT KK Band Layouts e 53 Adding A Definition In this example a band layout is created for our CW enthusiast Select New from the Edit menu to create a new definition using the Band Layout Editor Band Layout Editor File Edit Move Add atleast one frequency range to the list below example 7 000 000 MHz to 7 100 000 MHz Title CN Only Enabled Frequency Ranges status Band From MHz To MHz In the Title field enter CW Only From the Edit menu
117. select New to define a new frequency range e Inthe Band field enter 60m e Inthe From field enter 1 800 000 e Inthe 7o field enter 1 830 000 e Ensure Enable is checked e Press OK Define Frequency Range Band 160m Erom 1 500 000 MHz To 1 530 000 MHz Iv Enable When you press OK the frequency range s added to the band layout Repeat for 80m and 40m e 80m 3 5MHz to 3 55MHz e 40m 7 0MHz to 7 05MHz The band layout now looks like this Band Layout Editor File Edit Move Add atleast one frequency range to the list below example 7 000 000 MHz to 7 100 000 MHz Title CNN Only Enabled Frequency Ranges Status Band From MHz To MHz w Enabled 160m 1 600 000 1 830 000 w Enabled 80m 3 500 000 3 550 000 w Enabled 40m 700 000 7 050 000 To rearrange the order of the frequency ranges just select a range and use the Move menu options or the Move buttons gt When you have finished your new layout press OK The CW Only definition is added to the band layouts In the Band Layouts window press OK to save the definitions and close the window Copying A Definition To copy an existing band layout e Start the Manager e Select the entry to be copied e Select Copy from the Edit menu e Enter the new title e Change the frequency ranges are appropriate e Press OK Selecting To select a band layout either 1 Open the Bands pane in the Selection window select Display from the Bands m
118. sible 50 50 20 35 8 14 TBs 20 35 ge21 20 44 la zH 20 50 11 24 1 06 3 Bros 1 12 15 20 21 20 5 12 17 1 30 11 15 09 2103 12 41 4 44 16 59 12 40 13 34 12 47 12 40 This window is used to adjust your radio s TX uplink and RX downlink frequency to compensate for the Doppler effect the apparent shift in frequency of a wave due to the relative motion of source and observer Doppler shift s calculated in accordance with Kepler s laws e Enter the satellite uplink your TX frequency in the Satellite TX field e Enter the satellite downlink your RX frequency in the Satellite RX field e Select the VFO you will use for TX and RX see rest of this section e Ifyou are using a transverter select the Options tab and enter the transverter offsets When you are tuning remember that the important frequency is the satellite frequency not the frequency on your radio The frequency on your radio is the satellite frequency corrected for Doppler shift Tabs Plot A plot of the selected satellite s position and footprint Use the plot offset buttons to offset the plot time Satellite Tracking e 105 50 50 Zu 30 52 Southbound Options Infrequently used options are located here to avoid cluttering up the display TX o PX Doppler lee 1 882 TX gt RX EX 5 637 RX gt TX Transverter TX Fj _ 407 000 000 Rx F _116 000 000 Swaps TX and RX frequencies Copies TX frequency
119. st definition in the list that matches the new frequency e Selection window displays a Parallel Port pane in the main HRD selection window See Selection Window on page 51 Monitor The monitor window is started from the Tools gt Parallel Port menu The monitor e shows the current state of the data pins for a selected parallel port e allows you to select a definition and e toggle the data pins directly The Definition field shows the definition that matches the current pin selection 1f any Selection Window To display the selection window select the selection window option in the Parallel Port Manager Selection Favourites Parallel Port amp Manager e e Monitor X Auto Switch Rhombic af Log Periodic 5Elem Yagi a Miracle Whip 7 Turn Helix Quick Save The options are e Manager starts the Parallel Port Manager e Monitor starts the Parallel Port Monitor e Auto switch if enabled tick then a match is made with the first enabled definition when the frequency changes If not enabled cross then a match is not made e Definitions click on a definition to apply the definition to the port The icon indicates whether a definition that has been enabled or disabled Disabled definitions can be selected in this window they are only ignored when matching a new frequency against the list of definitions Auxiliary Switching e 51 Band Layouts Introduction Manager A neces
120. tator 97 RTS 18 satellite Tracking 101 Schedule 111 Schemes 27 SDPA 101 Selection Window 43 SGP4 101 Short path 98 single Pass 114 Sliders 26 Sliders Appearance 34 Sliders Layout 34 snapshots 88 Source Code 149 Speed 18 Sponsors 10 Supported Radios 11 Synchroniser 117 T S Kelso 103 Ten Tec 11 85 Toolbars 44 Tuning Dial 23 35 Updates 44 Virtual COM ports 121 Visibility 113 Visual C 150 WinKey 75 Yaesu 11 86 108 130
121. tes For each entry in this display the columns are Column Vis Satellite Azimuth Elevation AOS LOS Lon Lat Range Altitude Range Rate Description Whether the satellite is currently visible The name of the satellite The azimuth of a satellite is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian It is customary to reckon the azimuth of a line from the south point of the horizon around by the west from O deg to 360 deg The angular distance above the horizon Acquisition of signal is the elapsed time at which the satellite becomes visible and a signal can theoretically be heard If empty then the satellite is already visible Loss of signal is the elapsed time after which the satellite is no longer visible and the signal can theoretically no longer be heard The satellite s current longitude The satellite s current latitude The distance of the satellite from the observer s location measured in kilometers A mile is 1 6 kilometers a kilometer is 0 62 miles The altitude of the satellite above sea level measured in meters The value required to calculate Doppler frequency adjustment Satellite Tracking e 113 Next Passes all Satellite Tracking Local JN46AT VO 52 Uplink ON Downlink ON Satellites Observer Ground Control Schedule Current Data Mutual Visiblity Visibilay Y Nen Passes Single Pass Piot DOE gt Next posses lor a se
122. three QSO s with a single radio and you want to quickly switch between the frequencies for example during a 6m sporadic E opening Each definition consists of the frequency in Hertz and mode definitions are saved in the registry To switch between Quick Save definitions use the accelerator key combinations for the Quick Save menu options Next Ctr F5 and Previous Ctrl F6 Select Add from the Quick Save menu or just click the Quick Save button Quick Save An entry 1s added to the Quick Save pane in the Selection window To display markers in the HRD display select Show Markers from the Quick Save menu The marker size 1s selected from the Marker Size option in the Ouck Save menu ja h5 14100 14125 4150 The popup text 1s displayed as you move the mouse pointer over a marker The text 1s constructed from the frequency and mode Quick Save e 89 Remote Server Introduction The HRD Remote Server enables a connection between Ham Radio Deluxe and a radio connected to a remote computer that can be contacted via TCP IP Requirements The remote computer must be running Windows NT that is NT 4 0 2000 2003 or XP Windows 95 98 and various flavours thereof are not supported Technology A Windows service 1s installed on the remote service This listens on a port usually 7805 for incoming connections from Ham Radio Deluxe the client For more technical information see Annex Remote Server on page 135 Install
123. ting read thread Autospace If you pause for more than one dit time between a dit or dah WinKey will interpret this as a letter space and will not send the next dit or dah until full letter space time has been met The normal letter space is 3 dit spaces WinKey has a paddle event memory so that you can enter dits or dahs during the inter letter space and WinKey will send them as they were entered With a little practice autospace will help you to send near perfect Morse Contest Spacing Reduces the wordspace time by one dit Instead of 7 dits per wordspace contest spacing selects six dits per wordspace Paddle Echoback When enabled all characters entered on the paddles will be echoed back to the host From the host perspective paddle echo and serial echo are the same in either case the letter sent in Morse by WinKey is echoed back to the host The echo occurs after the letter has been completely sent Paddle Watchdog The paddle watchdog counter disables the key output after 128 consecutive dits or dahs This is to guard against the paddles being accidentally keyed continuously Swap Paddles Allows right and left handed operators to share the same keyer Serial Echoback Echo back is a feature that is included to allow a host application to stay exactly in sync with Morse letters sent When this mode is enabled all data taken out of the serial buffer
124. to arm the 10 minute timer on board the spacecraft 2 Next transmit on 145 850 MHz FM Voice using 67 0 Hz to key the repeater on and off within the 10 Minute window a tA rm ana he n T noie pe enoing ihe e 9 tone again within the IQ minu fe window wii ft et the fi Te Amateur Radio on the International Space Station ARISS Region 1 2m uplink 145 200 MHz FM Regions 2 amp 3 2m uplink 144 490 MHz FM ross Band Repeat Uplink 437 800 MHz FM Kenwood TS 2000 The computer can only update both main and sub frequencies either e n receive mode or e Intransmit mode with SAT selected A special solution is required when the uplink TX and downlink RX frequencies are in the same band When you start the TS 2000 you have an extra TX VFO option Sub XIT which is only used for same band split operation see below When selected the Sub VFO is used for transmitting Doppler correction is applied by adjusting the XIT value Cross Band In normal cross band satellite mode for example transmit on 70cms and receive on 2m select e TX VFO B Sub the TS 2000 always uses the Sub VFO for TX e RX VFO A Main e SAT on e Split off The TS 2000 must be in satellite mode so that the computer can update the TX frequency Be careful with the TS 2000 s TF SET button each time you press TF SET the uplink TX frequency and the downlink RX frequency are swapped So if the frequencies in HRD are the opposite of those shown on
125. to the RX Copies RX frequency to the TX Displays pass details using the default text editor useful for programming memories in a handheld UHF VHF transceiver Pass Details Reload Data For example so 50 TX 145 850 000 RX 436 795 000 Date time Azim Elev Receive Transmit wed 11 Jan 2006 07 38 00 109 4 0 2 436 796 788 145 849 402 wed 11 Jan 2006 07 38 30 105 3 O wed 11 Jan 2006 07 39 00 101 3 Us wed 11 Jan 2006 07 39 30 97 1 O wed 11 Jan 2006 07 40 00 93 0 Q wed 11 Jan 2006 07 40 30 89 0 O wed 11 Jan 2006 07 41 00 85 0 Q Reload Data Reloads the latest Kepler data see Satellites on page 101 e Doppler the current frequency correction e Transverter if you are using a transverter enter the correct offsets here and check TX and RX as appropriate AMSAT org The satellite s page in AMSAT org if available Note not all satellites are supported yet This is a useful way of getting information about satellites modes and frequencies Saudi OSCAR 50 SaudiSat 10 50 50 A Jplink 145 850 MHz FM Downlink 436 795 MHz FM Launched 20 December 200 Status Operational 50 50 carries several experiments including a mode J FM amateur repeater experiment operating on 145 Hd d LY ore 45 850 MHz uplink and 436 800 MHz dowr nk SO 50 15 operational for 10 minutes when turned or by the following procedure 1 Transmit for 1 2 seconds on 145 850 MHz with a tone of 74 4 Hz
126. to wait a few seconds before it starts drawing Logbook e 71 Problems Add a new entry Edit the currently selected entry x Delete the selected entries E Start the logbook analyser i Plot selected entries using Mapper To be plotted an entry must have a valid locator ig Reload the database and refresh the display f 2 gn d Auto fit the column widths to their contents lz 21 Define column layout amp Backup the database n Database configuration FERRE LEITET M Lookup station using QRZ com Configuration Here you control many aspects of the logbook Files The database file size and location The folder where backups are stored when you press the Backup button Appearance Adjust the appearance of the display to suit your own taste My Station Optional information about your station equipment and location Various Remark Locator small display Performance If you find that the database is exceptionally slow make sure that ODBC tracing is switched off From the Start menu select Settings Control Panel Administrative Tools ODBC Data Source Administrator select Tracing Here you stop tracing if started ODBC Data Source Administrator User DSN System DSN File DSN Drivers Tracing Connection Pooling About When to trace Start Tracing Now Start Visual Studio Analyzer Log File Path Custom Trace DLL CADOCUME 1 Simon LOCALS T Ten CAWINDOWS s
127. to your radio let HRD do the work for you for example on the FT 847 this 1s the Tracking option To set up the linear transponder frequencies e TXcenter The center frequency of the uplink TX band For example on VO 52 the uplink band is 435 220 435 280 MHz LSB CW so the center frequency is 435 250 000 MHz e RX center The center frequency of the downlink RX band For example on VO 52 the downlink band is 145 870 145 930 MHz USB CW so the center frequency is 145 900 000 MHz As you tune your RX frequency the TX frequency will be correctly adjusted by applying 1 offsets from the center frequencies and then 2 Doppler correction To adjust your transmit signal so that it matches the receive frequency use the spin button to the right of the TX center field It will be necessary to adjust the Satellite Tracking e 109 transmit signal as your radio s may not be correctly aligned also the linear transponder in the satellite may also not be correctly aligned The tracking option in a radio cannot correctly compensate for Doppler this 1s one reason why many QSO s drift gently across the linear transponder s available bandwidth Only correct computer control will ensure that two or more stations stay on the same frequency while the satellite passes overhead When using the linear transponder option HRD will correctly control your radio s frequencies so that are they are both compensated for Doppler shift Frequency Resolution The
128. tton F8 to display the Options window As an intelligent owner of the WinKey you will have studied the available literature so some of the information here should be obvious But in case you have forgotten something Keyer Reyer Speeds Options Pin Config Macros Logfile Help Keyer Mode varous Diltrmatc Autospace lambic B 8 Normal Contest spacing C Ultimatic O Dah priority Iv Paddle echoback C Bug O Dit priority Paddle watchdog Swap paddles Pot COMI Serial echoback Select the type of keyer and the COM port to which the keyer is connected When you press Connect the keyer 1s initialized and an echo back test performed The test must succeed for the connection to stay open This ensures that you have not accidentally connected to another device such as a rotator which may have a fit if driven by the WinKey protocol A sample log for a successful connect e e ae c ae we we we we c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c a c c c c c a c c we c c c c c c c c c c c c c c a c c a c c c c c c c c i am 09 58 02 Connecting to COMI 09 58 02 Setting buffer sizes to 2048 2048 09 58 02 Setting speed to 1200 n 8 1 758 09 58 02 Setting timeouts 58 Setting DTR clearing RTS 09 58 04 Echoback test sent HRD BY HB9DRV received HRD BY HB9DRV 09 58 04 Firmware revision 10 09 58 04 Star
129. tup for an IC 78000 results are in Hex The Time for each command is shown which helps detect timeouts Time Request 00005929 IRP MJ CREATE Options Open 00000167 IOCTL SERIAL SET QUEUE SIZE InSize 1024 Outsize 1024 00000341 IOCTL SERIAL PURGE SUCCESS Purge TXABORT RXABORT TXCLEAR RXCLEAR 00000261 IOCTL SERIAL GET BAUD RATE SUCCESS 00000123 IOCTL SERIAL GET LINE CONTROL SUCCESS 00000092 IOCTL SERIAL GET CHARS SUCCESS 00000088 IOCTL SERIAL GET HANDFLOW SUCCESS 00000903 IOCTL SERIAL SET BAUD RATE SUCCESS 00000479 IOCTL SERIAL SET RTS SUCCESS 00000371 IOCTL SERIAL SET DTR SUCCESS 00000275 IOCTL SERIAL SET LINE CONTROL SUCCESS 00000115 IOCTL SERIAL SET CHAR SUCCESS 00000257 IOCTL SERIAL SET HANDFLOW SUCCESS 00000085 IOCTL SERIAL SET TIMEOUTS SUCCESS 00000421 IOCTL SERIAL SET DTR SUCCESS 00000396 IOCTL SERIAL SET RTS SUCCESS 00000200 IOCTL SERIAL SET WAIT MASK SUCCESS 00000270 IOCTL SERIAL PURGE SUCCESS 00002902 IRP MJ WRITE SUCCESS Result SUCCESS SUCCESS e Rate 19200 CO C Cl 4 Co 9 1E 0 StopBits 1 Parity NONE WordLength 8 EOF 0 ERR 3f BRK 3f EVT 0 XON 11 XOFF 13 Shake 1 Replace 40 XonLimit 341 XoffLimit 341 RI 500 RM 250 RC 250 WM 250 WC 250 Mask RXCHAR TXEMPTY CTS DSR RLSD BRK RING Purge TXABORT RXABORT TXCLEAR RXCLEAR Length 7 FE FE 6A EO 19 00 FD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
130. update the frequencies unless the correct bands are select using the radio controls In same band mode e TX VFO Main e RX VFO Main e SAT off A few notes l The TX mode is not updated from the radio 2 The software has to switch between Main and Sub so that the Sub VFO is updated it is not possible to detect the radio s current Main Sub selection so the radio operates in main mode all the time If you press Sub on the radio you will see that radio switch back to Main as soon as the Sub frequency is updated Single VFO Radios If you are using a single VFO radio such as the FT 817 then you use the same VFO for TX and RX Use the TX F1 button to switch between TX and RX When you switch to TX the transmit frequency is loaded into the radio before it switches to transmit when you return to receive the receive frequency is loaded into the radio after it switches to receive So the rule is always use the TX F1 button to switch between transmit and receive Linear Transponders Check X the Linear Transponder Tracking option if you are using a linear transponder such as HAMSAT VUSAT VO 52 These satellites receive a specific range of frequencies typically 40 100 kHz in one band convert them to another band and amplify the converted signal for transmission back to your planet The converted signal is inverted LSB becomes USB etc this is known as an inverting transponder Do not use the satellite tracking built in
131. ve Load Customise Layout e 29 To distribute your layouts with other users of your radio model use the Save and Load buttons Buttons A Customise Layout f ESE Schemes Layout Buttons Faceplate Frequency Meters Sliders Appearance Sliders Layout Tuning Dial Defines the appearance of buttons on the radio display gt JEAN gt gt EAS EEZEE EEES o EEN EA gt EEES Button size 2 Small O Medium O Lare XLarge Selected at Define e Seven button colour combinations e The font and e The button size The default button size 1s small this 1s so that users with low resolutions such as 800 x 600 still have a usable configuration There are no rules when using the button size select the size which pleases you most For the technical readers the button size is tied to the font size of the radio display form font is Microsoft Sans Serif size is 8 9 10 or 12 point Changing the font size simply changes the font assigned to the form Faceplate A Customise Layout Schemes Layout Buttons Faceplate Frequency Meters Sliders Appearance Sliders Layout Tuning Dial Defines the background and status window on the radio display Status Window Duplex Receive Low Backaround Clock Position O Left Right 8 Left and Right Background These colours are applied to the background area of the display and to the transmit
132. vel Some commands do not require specific values for Pl P4 it is recommended that is a value is not specified in the radio handbook then you enter 00 this is the approach taken in Ham Radio Deluxe Be aware that there are many errors in the Yaesu documentation so the data returned may not agree with the handbook and the radio s current settings fm CAT Command Tester x Connection 1 USE THIS DISPLAY AT com y 38400 y CTS DTR RTS Connect YOUR OWN RISK This display is used Company Yaesu to test CAT commands outside of the main Title Reed Tx Status Ham Radio Deluxe framework The lan lon n0 an NE results can be saved Pr P2 P3 pa Opcode tea tert File for later analysis Connection a a I MN z Connected Read Frequency amp Mode OK 00 00 00 00 03 OK 00 35 78 15 00 Read RX Status OK 00 00 00 00 EF OK 00 Read TX Status OK 00 00 00 00 F7 OK FF Fields e Title a description of the command you are testing for example Read Frequency or read Mode Mandatory e PI P4 the command parameters Not all commands require parameters it is recommended that parameters that can be set to any value be set to 00 Fields left empty are set to 00 e OpCode the instruction OpCode Mandatory Examples Test Description Read The OpCode is 03 P1 P4 can have any value in this example they are frequency set to 00
133. vourites e 67 Logbook Introduction Small Display The logbook was originally planned to be a simple replacement for the standard paper logbooks that one can purchase from all major radio societies This idea didn t last long as the user requests piled in as a result a more sophisticated logbook was implemented Database The database engine originally used was DAO this was replaced in early 2006 with ODBC as DAO is not supported on 64 bit Windows systems The driver used is the Microsoft Access Driver mdb ODBC driver If you do not have the Microsoft Access Driver mdb ODBC driver on your system then download the latest Jet 4 0 files from www microsoft com See also How to obtain the latest service pack for the Microsoft Jet 4 0 Database Engine http support microsoft com default aspx kbid 239114 Refer to Annex Logbook Database on page 141 for details of the database design Starting There are two logbook windows l Main 2 Small The main display is a standard full blown logbook the small display has a fixed set of fields and a simple QSO entry area As you see in the picture below the small display is very simple The window can be docked to the top or bottom of the main HRD display and used at the same time as the radio display Logbook e 69 Date Stat End Station Mode Sent Recy Remark 29 05 2005 20 42 20 42 EHSASF USB 29 05 2005 17 55 1755 LY2BAW USB 29 05 2005 16 45 16 45 ITING
134. when you use Ping to interrogate a remote host Typically values of 50 milliseconds or less are very usable e Refresh interval the interval between refreshes of the selected Regularly Read options e Send frequency when the frequency is updated over a link with a high round trip time gt 100ms the performance will be less than optimal with Sync selected so if the round trip 1s high select Async otherwise just select Sync The disadvantage of using Async is an Remote Server e 95 elastic band effect while tuning by dragging HRD s small tuning marker e Regularly Read the options that are regularly updated If you are using a fast link for example to a local station with a low round trip time then you can safely select all options The disadvantage of selecting options such as Buttons Dropdowns Sliders and Status Texts is that it may take a second or two before HRD detects that you are changing the frequency by dragging the tuning marker and the current refresh operation cannot be interrupted Slow Link If you have a slow link a round trip time gt 100 ms then select only Meters As this 1s a remote station it is unlikely that anyone else will be adjusting the radio s controls so you will not need to refresh buttons and dropdowns as you would with a locally connected radio The disadvantage of not selecting Buttons and Dropdowns is that inter button dependencies will not be shown for example you may have 4 AGC buttons
135. witch a transmitter or linear amplifier over to transmit mode in advance of actual CW keying You have control over the time delay between when PTT is asserted and when CW keying will start this is lead in You also have control over how long the transmitter will stay in transmit after keying has stopped this is the tail delay Note PTT pin 5 can be reconfigured as a sidetone output see Sidetone Frequency option Sidetone Pin 5 can be configured to output a square wave sidetone by using the Set Pin 5 Mode option When sidetone is enabled pin 5 functions as a sidetone square wave output The PTT delays still work as described by the Set PTT Lead Tail Command but a PTT output is not available Available sidetone frequencies are 3759 Hz 1879 Hz 1252 Hz 940 Hz 752 Hz 625 Hz 535 Hz 469 Hz 417 Hz 3765 Hz K1EL WinKey e 79 Pin Config Speeds Optians Pin Config Macras Logfile Help Output Fin Fin 5 Sidetone Q Fin 5 Deasserted Fin 3 Key output C Pin 5 Key output Pin 3 Deasserted Determines how the output pins are mapped Macros Keyer Speeds Options Pin Config Macros Logfile Help Title Erase Value sie Mo CA CO CO DE HBYDRY P HB9S0R P HBSDBVIP KK Weather No VWs HERE SUN 400 NO WIND Define an unlimited number of macros that can be selected in the WinKey main window Macros Logfile Help Text Connecting to COMI setting buffer s
136. y Introduction The HRD radio display has many many features This section attempts to describe everything you can do in this display HRD is designed to be intuitive nevertheless even the author has problems remembering all the available options To aid in the clarity of the screenshots the LCD Scheme is used AGC Fost OMe bevel Fl Hormel Ovick Mam Ch5 ATT TC55 HR2 Txis E Busy sign Made USB 1 Scanning Sper ATU V ved Pr Tan Meman 23 r Quick Wan 5 Am Maru A Prae Tuna CTCSS Ar e i o eats DARTE IX B AMI MemuB Fin OX Tec 1315 Hg ME IF pH 3 780 000 Sd BC WR 1 160m 10m Region 1 13 38 50 Radio Display e 21 Frequency Display 14 235 000 Configuration See Frequency on page 32 Dropdowns If you have enabled dropdowns as part of the configuration just click on a dropdown and make a new selection Mouse Wheel When you rotate the mouse wheel in the frequency display the currently active digit is incremented decremented depending on the scroll direction If you rotate while the cursor is over an inactive digit then the digit is activated Up Down The up arrow down arrow and keys increment decrement the active digit Mouse click Select a digital by clicking over the digit To increment decrement click above below the center of the digit and keep the mouse button pressed Direct Entry To enter values just press a numeric key 0 9 The active di
137. y won library shipped as a DLL with HRD and based on NORAD SGP4 SDP4 Implementations by Michael F Henry Full source is available on request The most important rule it s the frequency on the satellite that 1s important not the frequency on your radio This is the most common mistake made when using a satellite If you are using two radios for satellite tracking one for transmit the other for receive read this section first then refer to Error Reference source not found on page Error Bookmark not defined Dual radio support is arguably the most flexible way to work with satellites Satellites The software requires information about the satellites you will be tracking this information is known as Keplerian elements Johannes Kepler 1571 1630 discovered the three laws of planetary motion in 1609 and 1619 a remarkable feat Satellite Tracking e 101 all Satellite Tracking Local JN46AT RS 22 Uplink OFF Downlink ON Smelites Observer 9 Ground Control Schedule Current Data Mutual Visibdity Visibility Next Passes Single Pass Pict DOE gt Select o meorum of 100 sotelktes kom the Available kst Avolable Selected Data Folder NOAA 14 AO 7 Loaded when Satellites Tracking starts NOAA 15 AO 51 NOAA IE FO 29 Folder D Ham Ra dioDebudgSaellites TE os E es JE nea Casera E 4 posse 8 aces 00 30 wO 52 PIE PO 34 Download us ng H In POSAT lt lt RESURS Fie URL
138. ystem32 odbetrac dl Browse Select DLL ODBC tracing allows you to create logs of the calls to ODBC drivers for use by support personnel or to aid you in debugging your applications Visual studio tracing enables Microsoft Visual studio tracing for ODBC OK Cancel Apply Help Errors If you get problems using the Logbook for example a window such as x eo The SELECT statement includes a reserved word or an argument name that is misspelled or missing or the punctuation is incorrect then follow the steps below to generate a trace file which provides all information required to diagnose the problem 1 Close HRD 2 From the Start menu select Settings Control Panel Administrative Tools ODBC Data Source Administrator select Tracing 3 Press Start Tracing Now 4 Start HRD open the Logbook and perform the steps necessary to generate the error 5 Stop tracing 6 Save the logfile to a ZIP archive and forward to the HRD developers Logbook e 73 K1EL WinKey Introduction Main Window WinKey brings high functionality fully featured Morse keying to logging applications Although designed for Windows based software implementation WinKey can add value to all logging programs regardless of operating system or platform Can also be used as a stand alone keyer Source http www klel com A lot of the description of the WinKey support is taken from the WinKey documentation

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