#Virtual com port rs ba1 mod
#Virtual com port rs ba1 software
#Virtual com port rs ba1 password

#Virtual com port rs ba1 software

I chose COM1 because thatвЂ™s what the software picked for me and IвЂ™m not attached to these kinds of things. When setting up the connection utility, there is the option of selecting a name for the virtual COM port. If you leave all of the defaults alone, the connection should Just Work. Once the software is installed, the connection utililty is launched and the user is left to fill in the blanks on the device that is the server and in that respect itвЂ™s not any more difficult than attaching any other device to a basestation. I donвЂ™t think that the docs for setting up the connection software are particularly cumbersome.

I connected the computer to the SSID of the IC-705 under the usual Wi-Fi networking panel. This means that audio as well as rig control commands will come and go over Wi-Fi.

#Virtual com port rs ba1 mod

With the Access Point mode engaged, I set up the Connections menu to have MOD as WLAN. But I had some ideasвЂ¦and theyвЂ™ll have to wait. This constraint is not anywhere I could find in the documentation and it might be so simple that itвЂ™s not worth noting. But sadly, only one device can be attached to the IC-705 at a time based on my experiments.

After all, itвЂ™s just handing out an address and maybe acting as a low-functioning router given that there is no internet capability in this mode. I spent a lot of time playing with this feature alone as I was hopeful that I could use the IC-705 as an access point for more than one device.

#Virtual com port rs ba1 password

This broadcasts an SSID of my choice and has a password requirement for joining that network.

ICOM RS-BA1 Version 2 at the latest versionДЇirst, I turned on the WLAN feature of the IC-705 and set it to Access Point Mode.

Maybe somedayвЂ¦when I have a bit more time? I will say that the world of Ham Radio operators has embraced the Raspberry Pi and GNU/Linux, but at the end of the day, most of the software that works with minimal time investment lives on Windows. So I followed the lead of the mighty OH8STN and got a Surface Go 2. That said, if I wanted to keep pushing for a Raspberry Pi based solution, I was going to need a lot more time for fiddling with computers and that leads to less time for operating because I donвЂ™t have blocks of time for both. I do keep a close eye on my hobby budget and IвЂ™m not made of money. My time is, as IвЂ™ve mentioned in the past, very valuable to me and is a fixed amount. In this case, my scope is QRP operation on primarily digital modes at the park or while IвЂ™m camping. WhatвЂ™s that? Well, there are three legs: Time, Money, and Scope. Being in Ham Radio as a hobbiest with limited time means that I had to re-examine the three legged stool principle.

So what did I do and what did I learn?ДЇirst off, I have to say that I totally gave up on some things. I think IвЂ™m about as close to field nirvana as IвЂ™m going to get. With the usual tip of the cap to OH8STN I dug in on the v1.24 firmware of the IC-705 to rid my field setup of yet another cable.

Virtual com port rs-ba1