station integration (not enough computer ports)

[Hamilton]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>I have a fairly standard shack with a radio (USB and DB9), solid state amp, SDR pan adapter, antenna switch, WinKeyer, a PC, etc.</p>
For apps I have DX Lab, N1MM, WSJT, N1MM>WSJT, SDR-Uno, CW Skimmer, and others.

The amp sets on the radio’s DB9 serial port and the antenna sets on a parallel port  so these items are isolated on their own interfaces.

For everything else I have a tangle of DX Lab, OmniRig, com0com, a virtual audio mixer, and some custom hardware. I still have to stop some apps before starting others and failing to get the order right can break the virtual connections.

So here is the Question: How do big stations deal with this? Is the secret some WestMountain hardware, radios with Ethernet interfaces and servers, multiple sound cards….do I write some code to change configurations that avoids the conflicts at the expense of functionality??

[Fred Kemmerer]

Hi Hamilton,

We use equipment from microHam here. Check out http://www.microham-usa.com/index.html .

More at – https://stationproject.blog/2014/03/12/station-automation-part-1-microham-so2r-and-system-design/

 

[Nashua Area Radio Society]

Hello Hamilton,

I’ll also be interested to hear any recommended solutions to this problem.

I’m experiencing a similar problem when I switch between my Yeasu FTM300 running Wires-X & IC-7300 with DXlabs/WSJ-T/GridTracker. Everything is connected to my Win10 computer.

Ryan

[Fred Kemmerer]

Programs like DXLab Command can provide a software gateway that multiple apps can use to access a radio’s CAT interface. Check out –

https://www.dxlabsuite.com/

Many programs can use Commander simultaneously to interact with the radio’s CAT interface.

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