TS-790S Control

Gpredict
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I am trying to use Gpredict with my TS-790 and have some pretty serious control problems. GPredict seems to be sending commands to the radio faster than it can process them, and as a result the radio is not being set up properly. It also seems to be trying to use split operation on a full-duplex radio, which doesn’t make sense to me.

Here is an example output from rigctld:

Opened rig model 207, ‘TS-790’
kenwood_transaction: Unknown command or rig busy ‘FA00145960000’
kenwood_transaction: Retrying shortly
kenwood_transaction: Unknown command or rig busy ‘FA00145960000’
kenwood_transaction: Retrying shortly
kenwood_transaction: Unknown command or rig busy ‘FA00145960000’
kenwood_transaction: Retrying shortly
kenwood_transaction: Unknown command or rig busy ‘FA00145960000’
kenwood_transaction: Retrying shortly
kenwood_transaction: Unknown command or rig busy ‘FA00145960000’
kenwood_transaction: Retrying shortly
kenwood_transaction: Unknown command or rig busy ‘FA00145960000’
kenwood_transaction: Retrying shortly
kenwood_transaction: Unknown command or rig busy ‘FA00145960000’
kenwood_transaction: Retrying shortly
kenwood_transaction: Unknown command or rig busy ‘FA00145960000’
kenwood_transaction: Retrying shortly
kenwood_transaction: Unknown command or rig busy ‘FA00145960000’
kenwood_transaction: Retrying shortly
kenwood_transaction: Unknown command or rig busy ‘FA00145960000’
kenwood_transaction: Retrying shortly
kenwood_transaction: Unknown command or rig busy ‘FA00145960000’
kenwood_transaction: Retrying shortly
kenwood_transaction: Unknown command or rig busy ‘FA00145960000’
kenwood_transaction: Retrying shortly
kenwood_transaction: Unknown command or rig busy ‘FA00145960000’
kenwood_transaction: Retrying shortly
kenwood_set_split_vfo: unsupported VFO 67108864
kenwood_set_split_vfo: unsupported VFO 67108864

Just thought someone might care to know.

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Gpredict doesn’t configure the radio, it is done by the hamlib backend. Currently there are problems with most full duplex radios.

You can adjust the rate at which commands are sent in the radio control window. It’s hard to know what makes sense for different radios without having a radio for testing.

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Ahh okay I see that now. I set it to 2 seconds and stopped getting the errors. Now the issue is that the receiver blanks momentarily when the frequency changes, so perhaps I have some more things to figure out. This is a new radio for me so I’m certainly still figuring some things out.

I’ll keep playing with it but I’m happy to test things out if it helps the project.