Hi,
I’ve been using Wfview on Windows 7 for some time with an Icom R8600.
I find I cannot control the radios volume when using the LAN connection type.
The slider controls in Wfview do control the other R8600 front panel knobs and functions.
The AF slider in Wfview only controls the R8600 audio that is coming thru the computer.
I’d like to be able to control the actual radios speaker volume as I have a much better audio speaker attached to my 8600. The squelch control in Wfview does control the 8600s squelch.
If I switch the connection type to USB/Serial and set the baud to 115,000, I can then control the radios volume thru the AF slider in Wfview. But… then the waterfall display is painfully slow due to the serial connection speed limit.
Is there a way to use my R8600 with Wfview with a LAN connection and still be able to control the AF and Squelch levels in the 8600 but from Wfview?
The other finding is that Wfview appears to only operate the R8600 down to 0.135 MHz or 135kHz. Yet the R8600 does tune down to 0.010 MHz or 10kHz. I just can’t tune it below 125 kHz with Wfview.
I’m running version 2.03 of Wfview and have tried several of the test builds but no change in the above.
I’ve also tried the 64bit version of Wfview on Windows 11 but the same issues above are present in the 64 bit versions as well.
Indeed, when connected to over LAN, the AF gain slider is only for the computer. We used to offer it the other way, but it confused people so we had to implement a local computer-audio AF gain slider.
We don’t currently have a way for you to control the radio’s speaker level over LAN. If you are especially crafty, you could use the virtual serial port of wfview to insert your own CI-V commands for AF gain, but that is definitely expert-level territory. You could also override the rig file and replace one existing slider with the CI-V command for the volume. Again, far beyond the scope of what we can support!
As for the tuning range, we can look into it. I’m not sure anyone on our team tried to tune that low during testing!
Thanks for the replies everyone.
Now I know I’m not going crazy as I knew the AF slider used to control the 8600s speaker volume in earlier versions of Wfview!
I did play with the 8600.rig file but no luck getting it to allow tuning or displaying frequency below 135 kHz.
I did note while messing with Wfview, the waterfall display does appear to still track and display correctly when you use the 8600s tuning knob and tune below 135 kHz.
Steve
edit: I did manage to edit the r8600 rig file and can now use Wfview to tune down to 10 kHz.
I was editing the wrong r8600.rig file in my earlier attempts!
When connected over LAN, wfview has never controlled the local volume of the radio, you may have been connected over USB, where it does then control the local volume?
