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Hi All

Wonder if someone here can offer advice on how I might resolve the following issue please.

I have RUMlogNG working almost perfectly with WSJT-X on my Kenwood TS570D. The only issue I have is that the Band Change drop down does not cause the Kenwood TS570D to change band, but if I change band and/or frequency using the VFO on the Kenwood the drop down and indicated frequency in WSJT-X does change. It appears there is only a one way communication exchange with RUMlogNG.

The sequence I get it all to run is as follows;

1 - Launch Kenwood
2 - Launch RUMlogNG - CAT control is then successfully established
3 - Launch WSJT-X - successfully launches and starts tracking on the indicated frequency/band

I have set up the WSJT-X data port in RUMlogNG prefs as 2237 which is as it should be, so I have no idea why changing the band in WSJT-X does not get passed through to RUMlogNG.

Can anyone offer advice for me please?
Many thanks.

Can you control mode and frequency from RL to the tx?

DL2RUM wrote:Can you control mode and frequency from RL to the tx?

Hi

Yep, this all works fine. When I change the frequency in RUMLogNG the rig changes accordingly. I can manage DX clusters, bands, and all regular CAT control stuff from RL to the rig.

Pse post a screen shot of your RL TRX and UDP settings and from WSJT-X the Radio settings.

Of course, no probs. Thanks so much for helping me on this.
Hope these are the images you wanted to see. The image from WSJT-X shows TEST PTT as red becasue as I took the screenshot, WSJT-X was transmitting on FT8

DL2RUM wrote:

• You have set two options for PTT: in WSJT-X and in RUMlog. You should use one option only.

I use a serial device connected to the RS232 port on the Kenwood for CAT control from the rig to Mac, and that uses CAT to control the PTT. WSJT-X uses a separate cable (from a different port) specifically for the Kenwood 570D, which takes the audio and mic from the Kenwood out to two 3.5mm connectors, and also uses a USB device to control PTT - hence CAT for PTT in RUMlogNG and RTS for PTT in WSJTX.

I had to use this because the Kenwood was using the microphone for the source audio in WSJT-X and there was no way to change that.

Not sure what to do here?

DL2RUM wrote:

• You have set Power up line RTS. This will disable the RTS flow control.

OK, again, not sure what I should do here. I use this for the reason mentioned above in 1st point.

DL2RUM wrote:

• In WSJT you should select Fake it for Split operation. This is not the problem, but strongly recommended.

OK, I shall amend that setting.

Disable PTT in WSJt-X or in RL Preferences-->UDP-->WSJT-X--Switch PTT
Disable the option Power up RTS line.

I can't see an option to disable PTT in WSJT-X, but I have now disabled PTT in RL.

Still no joy on the band change drop down in WSJT-X though! When I select an alternate band,it displays the band in WSJT-X for a second, nothing happens on the rig, then WSJT-X drop down reverts to where it was before.

Guess I am going to have to live with it.

The split setting is in the r/h upper corner of the Radio panel.