Autoswitch antenna ports for Xverter use based on band !

Charlie_KB8CR · August 2023

I have a VHF (144M) Xverter on RX_A for RX and XVTA for TX, and an UHF one on XVTB/XVTB (single IF ports). Why can't you program in the transverter definitions which ports to switch to, according to band? Ie: If the slice is on 144Mhz, to switch that slice to RX_A/XVTA, and so on?

I'm wracking my brain trying to make a Node Red flow to do this, but many radios natively can select an antenna choice based on frequency band.

Charlie KB8CR

Al K0VM · August 2023

Charlie,

I think you already can but you must switch by BAND and not switch by changing frequency to the new band. ??? At least that seems like the way it works for me. Switching bands by changing frequency preserves the antenna selections of the previous band.

AL, K0VM

Geoff AB6BT · August 2023

Profiles work as well. I have a profile for 6M that uses ANT2. Other bands use ANT1. When I load a profile the correct antenna is selected. Oh, and I have a 2M transverter on the XVTR port that is selected when I load a 2M profile. This is on a 6400.

Charlie_KB8CR · August 2023

Profiles worked fine on the Windows version, but were crashing the Mac version. I now have a Node Red flow that looks at the frequency of each slice and selects the antenna ports for me.

Thanks,

73

Charlie KB8CR

Autoswitch antenna ports for Xverter use based on band !

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