Controlling my IC-7300(remote) VFO, sideband etc using a radio at home at home

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Hi!

I have an IC-7300 at a remote QTH which I remotely control using from my PC at home. Of course, it doesn’t bring the same feeling when using the radio at home with real buttons and turning the VFO dial and so on.

However, I have some old radios at home laying around that maybe could be used to control the IC-7300? Could I for example connect my old IC-735, or even my Kenwood TS-850, to my PC at home and then make WFview follow that radio’s VFO?

In other words, when turning the VFO dial on my radio at home, could you make it so that the VFO on the IC-7300 remote radio follows along. Is this possible?

73 de SA6KOD.

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We don’t have a way to do that yet. But I share your sentiments of desiring some real knobs and buttons.

Has you read over our USB Controllers chapter in the manual? We do support a wide selection of hardware controllers which can bring back some of that feeling.

—E
de W6EL

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Thanks Elliott.

I actually solved this problem with the help of ChatGPT and some Python code, now it works perfectly using my MCHF rig.

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Care to share your solution? Sounds neat!

I can tell you that it is easy to do between two icom radios using only a CI-V cable. This I did to operate a radio with a cracked screen once.

–E
de W6EL

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Yeah ofc!

I don’t know which one of the TS-850 files that works, but probably the one challed “ts850rig”

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aJ4Qva4qxqxprJ3bc0lk53bt_sghsa08?usp=drive_link

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Neat-o, makes sense. Poll one radio, set the other radio, repeat. I have done something similar between two instances of wfview with different radios:

https://gitlab.com/eliggett/scripts/-/blob/master/sync.py?ref_type=heads

(it says gqrx in the file but it will work between any two hosts that understand rigctld)

–E
de W6EL