I improved the antenna status widget to also change antennas for bands. The protocol for this device has not been published, so I had to snoop on the RS-232 traffic to find out how to talk to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to performing automatic antenna switching for my tower (40 m – 6 m), it now can switch between four receive antennas for 160 m – 60m. You probably guessed that these are four BOGs oriented NE, SW, NW, SE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The previously described ft8cmp code and the bandmaster code are now both on github.com:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/github.com\/jmeloranta\/ft8cmp.git\n<\/a>https:\/\/github.com\/jmeloranta\/antenna-widget.git<\/a><\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I improved the antenna status widget to also change antennas for bands. The protocol for this device has not been published, so I had to snoop on the RS-232 traffic to find out how to talk to it. In addition to performing automatic antenna switching for my tower (40 m – 6 m), it now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham_radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}