FT817 compatibility
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This is kind of a continuation of the display thread/subject. I received the display yesterday. It came with the mini DIN cable and my 817 was able to power it. However, I am using the cat port for the LDG Z817 tuner with radio menu setting at 38400, the new display requires a cat rate of 4800. The LDG tuner has a pass through cat. Not sure how to make both work. Can I just set to the lower rate, 4800 and both will/should work? There is also a RJ45 connection option that I haven’t tried yet. Thanks all |
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Hi Michael,
If I’m not mistaken, the tuner only uses the Band Data pin from the radio to tell it what band you’re on (plus Gnd and power, of course).
The CAT Tx and Rx pins are different pins and, to my knowledge are not used by the tuner at all and are just passed through to the socket on the tuner.
Therefore, it should not be a problem to change the data rate for the CAT port to 4800 bps.
73….Eric VK2VE.
From: ft817@groups.io <ft817@groups.io> On Behalf Of Michael Davis via groups.io
Sent: Tuesday, 31 December 2024 02:56 To: ft817@groups.io Subject: [ft817] FT817 compatibility
This is kind of a continuation of the display thread/subject. I received the display yesterday. It came with the mini DIN cable and my 817 was able to power it. However, I am using the cat port for the LDG Z817 tuner with radio menu setting at 38400, the new display requires a cat rate of 4800. The LDG tuner has a pass through cat. Not sure how to make both work. Can I just set to the lower rate, 4800 and both will/should work? There is also a RJ45 connection option that I haven’t tried yet. Thanks all |
Michael Davis
