palstar hf auto tuner

Bill Reeves

has anyone found a way for the palstar hf auto tuner to follow the flex 6600?  using the usb ports on the flex

John - AI4FR

David-N5PSM

Rick N4RZ

There is a program called HF-Auto by W1TR that can control the HF-Auto tuner on a computer.  W1TR has a second program called W1TR Rig Control which can be used to obtain the operating frequency of a Flex radio and then passes it on to the HF-Auto program via a UDP port.   I've been using these two programs for about three years and they work flawlessly.  You have to tell the RIg Control program you are using a Kenwood TS-2000.  This works because the Flex radios also understand the Kenwood protocols in addition to the Flex specific ones.     
As far as I know, you can't go directly from the USB cables to the tuner. Because Palstar uses a proprietary API, which was designed to be used to communicate with their own HF-Auto Remote product. The method above only works because they allowed W1TR to have access to their API. 

Gary NC3Z

Yup, HF-Auto app works great and does follow (both the Tune and Antenna Port).

Bill Reeves

Please explain your settings. Sure it is not at auto

Rick N4RZ

It is the HF-Auto Tuner.  The settings can be found in the documentation at his site which you can find by Googling W1TR Software.

Gary NC3Z

Gary NC3Z

Oh, in place of Rig Control, I am using Commander which also supplies the UDP connection to the HF-Auto app.

Gary NC3Z

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