Allen Vinegar wrote:
The program opens up. A little box pops up saying communication inactive. It's meant to work with windows 95 or 98. The programming commands are beyond me. If you acquire a VC-H1 and figure out how to do it, please let me know.
Al
Hmm. I'd be trying to run it under Wine, since I don't have any Windows machines and I don't know anyone who does.
Looking at the spec in the manual, it doesn't really seem to mention much about downloading pictures from the device. If I get hold of one, I might give Kenwood a poke and see if they have any more comprehensive information.
Gordon
Hi Gordon,
I've got the Kenwood software (version 1.10) sort of running under Wine. There is a tab for SSTV/SkyCommand configuration - slots for your call sign, message, RSV, and colors for the text (at least I assume that's what they do - I don't have a VC-H1). The other tabs let you configure all of the memory channels, APRS parameters, etc. But, I do not see any place to download the picture files.
The program is set up to communicate with the radio on any of the legacy COM ports (1-4). I have not been able to get Wine to talk to my D7. The screens come up, and you can make changes and all that. But it gives a "Communications timeout" message when you try to read from the radio. I think Wine is set up right. ~/.wine/dosdevices/com2 is a link to /dev/ttyS1, and if I run kermit on /dev/ttyS1, I can talk to the radio's TNC just fine. Any ideas how I can get this to work?
To Allen, I'm pretty sure that the Kenwood software runs under Windows XP Pro. At least, I've got a configuration file from my D7 file on my hard drive, and given that Linux isn't reading the radio, it must have been via XP.... I just don't remember when I last ran it.
Greg KO6TH
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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:33:28 +0100 From: gordonjcp@gjcp.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: VC-H1 for SSTV reception
Allen Vinegar wrote:
The program opens up. A little box pops up saying communication inactive. It's meant to work with windows 95 or 98. The programming commands are beyond me. If you acquire a VC-H1 and figure out how to do it, please let me know.
Al
Hmm. I'd be trying to run it under Wine, since I don't have any Windows machines and I don't know anyone who does.
Looking at the spec in the manual, it doesn't really seem to mention much about downloading pictures from the device. If I get hold of one, I might give Kenwood a poke and see if they have any more comprehensive information.
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An update...
To Allen, I'm pretty sure that the Kenwood software runs under Windows XP Pro. At least, I've got a configuration file from my D7 file on my hard drive, and given that Linux isn't reading the radio, it must have been via XP.... I just don't remember when I last ran it.
Confirmed... I just tried it again. Actually, it wasn't the dual-booted Windows XP that I had used, but a Windows XP Pro install running under VMWare, on the Linux boot. The serial interface was via a Keyspan USB->Serial converter, that I forced to COM 3 (the default was COM 5, which the Kenwood software won't talk to).
But VM or not, it was definitely running just fine under Windows XP. Maybe the type of serial port has something to do with it?
Greg KO6TH
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