CAT Interface for Kenwood TS480?

[dd0ul]

Moin,

I'm able to use my remote TS480 (SSB, Digimode via VOX). What I miss: The CAT Interface. Is there any way to use the RRC-1258 MkII for this 2nd task?

vy 73 de Micha, DD0UL

[sm2o]

Yes of course

Connect a cable from com2 to the radio CAT port

Look at the chapter, Kenwood in common for cable drawing

73 de mike

[dd0ul]

Moin Mike, thanks for your answer.

I found the chapter, thanks for the pointer :-)
 
An other question (I can't experiment because the TS480 is 400 km away :-) If I go there soon everything should be fine.

The instructions say I need a cable with 2x female plugs on the Radio side. That fits, there is a male plug on the TS480, as well as on the RRC-1258 Mk II

That's why I used to use a USB to 9 pin Sub-D adapter with a female plug. On the control RRC-1258, COM2 is also a socket (female). That means I need a different USB adapter or a gender changer, right?

vy73 de Micha, DD0UL

[sm2o]

You cannot use USB at the radio side you have to make a cabe according to the drawing

/mike

[dd0ul]

Moin Mike, what I was trying to say: So far I had used an adapter that has a Sub-D socket at one end of the cable (connected to the CAT interface of the TS480), and a USB plug at the other end that went into the PC.

If I now use the RRC-1258MkII and want to continue using this CAT-USB adapter, I need a remote cable with 2x 9-pin female (that's how the manual describes it and that's what it looks like) from the TS480 to the remote RRC. But here on the Control RRC-1258 a gender changer is needed because COM2 is female, my USB cable is 9pin female.

Right?

[sm2o]

Ok
Ok
All USB to serial adapters I have seen so far has a male 9pin dsub like a PC port, but if you have another you need a converter as the Control RRC dsubs are female

73 de mike

[HB9BJL]

Moin Michael

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DD0UL wrote:

Moin Mike, what I was trying to say: So far I had used an adapter that has a Sub-D socket at one end of the cable (connected to the CAT interface of the TS480), and a USB plug at the other end that went into the PC.

If I now use the RRC-1258MkII and want to continue using this CAT-USB adapter, I need a remote cable with 2x 9-pin female (that's how the manual describes it and that's what it looks like) from the TS480 to the remote RRC. But here on the Control RRC-1258 a gender changer is needed because COM2 is female, my USB cable is 9pin female.

Right?

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Hello Michael,
install the Microbit Remoterig setup manager on your PC and use the supplied USB cable at the Remoterig control unit. At the radio unit you need to connect a straight RS-232 9 pin f - f cable between the COM 2 port at the radio unit and the COM port on the TS-480. My setup works perfectly.
73 de Christian HB9BJL (chris.eugster [ät] gmail.com)