Purpose of Bluetooth Capability in 6400M

Larry - WA7LZO

Ria

It's likely part of the display module (which is an embedded Windows computer), but disabled in the Flex implementation.

Larry - WA7LZO

Larry - WA7LZO

Ken Hansen

In a mobile install I'd run a cat5 cable to a RAM mounted laptop... Re-packaging the radio would likely trigger a need to re-certify the device, negating any savings by disabling the interface in the initial design. Of course, speculating is fun, but I suspect it has a very mundane reason for being included.

Larry - WA7LZO

Lucas - W6AER

That was my guess also

Mike-VA3MW

Hi

There are no plans to leverage Bluetooth at this time.  

Mike

Arvind Mallya

Mike, Is there a setup procedure to route the Bluetooth audio and Mic or a USB earphone and Mic from the Flex 6600 connected to a PC and how does one key?

Ted VE3TRQ

The possibilities are interesting for doing both incoming and outgoing audio, plus PTT through Bluetooth to the PC. There are many Bluetooth headsets that will connect to the PC and provide headphone / microphone. PTT could also be done by using a Bluetooth serial port emulation to the PC, then connect to CAT PTT via serial on the PC. You’d need to have a Bluetooth serial device with the capability of toggling control lines from your operating position. I have no idea whether such a beast exists, but I bet it does. And the challenge would be interesting. Not plug-n-play for PTT, but pretty much so for audio. Now I’ll let Mike answer the question :-)