http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/ xcat Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:39:49 GMT Skip WB6YMH http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/302 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/302 ... Apparently the encryption rumor not an urban legend! Mike Blender has provided the following insight. I don't have any X9000s, but they have become much Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:29:22 GMT Skip WB6YMH http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/301 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/301 ... No, I have a range one radio in fact. When you select a high band radio on the configuration tab of the Xcat PC control program two buttons appear ... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:24:28 GMT Dennis Boone http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/300 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/300 ... The xcat uses standard code plug data, because it's just an emulator for the memory module. For the function commands (set freq, set pl, etc) it Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:23:59 GMT tigger_bouncy_99 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/299 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/299 Is the XCAT only set up for 150 to 174 operation, meaning no range one support exists? That means I need to slide a range two radio down and while that's not Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:59:36 GMT Skip http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/298 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/298 ... Xcats are available for $73 plus $6 shipping. Contact Lee K7KAJ (k7kaj@...) for delivery info. His paypal account is trans71@.... ... Serial using Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:26:19 GMT Dennis Boone http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/297 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/297 ... I'll let Skip answer the other questions, but since the control channel for the xcat is serial, you have several control options: 1. Repeater controller Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:12:31 GMT tigger_bouncy_99 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/296 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/296 What's the availability of the XCAT boards? Also, what is the method of interface? I saw the windows program and assume this is to drive the board from a Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:06:35 GMT Skip WB6YMH http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/295 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/295 ... The Xcat overrides the control head's setting to force the Syntor to re- read the code plug info when frequencies change. U2 pin 2 is isolated from J1 pin Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:11:58 GMT steve gunsel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/294 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/294 Lee and the group, I am ready to install my xcat, and set it up for PC control. But I have a couple of questions... Connection from J2, pin 16. Can this be Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:12:18 GMT Dennis Boone http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/293 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/293 ... I'm not aware of an x9000 programming solution other than the standard Motorola one. The Moto way is to get a RIB, a programming cable, and the X9000 RSS Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:26:20 GMT Brian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/292 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/292 Group thanks for letting me come aboard. Im afraid my x9000 is the newer radio with out the replacement board you have to program these vial cable and computer Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:47:21 GMT Skip WB6YMH http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/291 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/291 Not that I know of, but the RC-850 was the origin of what became the Doug Hall protocol so it should work. If not I'm sure we can convince it. Let me know if Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:35:19 GMT rkoral@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/290 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/290 Has anyone interfaced the Xcat to a Advanced Computer Controls RC-850? If so are there any tricks or anyother information that would be helpfully. Thanks Rod Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:11:55 GMT Dennis Boone http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/289 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/289 As long as I was thinking about the xcatctl package, I made a few minor updates -- doc fixes, elimination of some compile warnings, corrections to Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:37:45 GMT wb9ipa_1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/288 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xcat/message/288 Thanks to both of you. I tried to use the Save and Get but was having trouble with it. I will play with XCAT and xcatctl and see if I can get this to work.