Re: Re: VR120 connected to Palm PDA?

chuck chromik <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:00:58 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.recreation.radio.hardware.yaesu.vr120
Message-ID <[email protected]>
how about the pocket pc (compaq)? there is an infrared
com  with that, i wonder if anyone has tried this.

--- Marc <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, you are right. That was why I thought it should
> be possible. I
> know that
> for my Palm Vx also such a cable can be used.
> I know of people who use there Palm to control a
> computer controlled
> telescope (a so called goto-scope). You type in the
> name of e.g. a
> star or a
> planet and the Palm sends the control instructions
> to the scope via
> the serial
> interface.
> 
> Conclusion: I also think it's possible, as long as
> the protocol
> specifiaction
> of the VR120 is known (and it is, because of the
> tk120 software) and it is
> known how to send them from the Palm.
> 
> That was why I was wondering if it was ever
> tried.......
> 
> /Marc
> 
> --- In [email protected], "Gary Kinsman"
> <gkinsman@p...> wrote:
> > A serial hotsync cable is available for newer Palm
> PDAs with 
> > the "universal connector." I used a Palm m500 with
> one of these 
> > cables, and a null-modem adapter, to control a
> Ten-Tec RX320 black-
> > box shortwave radio with a serial input.
> Otherwise, a Palm modem 
> > cable can be used instead of the serial hotsync
> cable and null-modem.
> > 
> > --- In [email protected],
> nyscourtsgt@a... wrote:
> > > The Palm would need a serial port to even have a
> shot
> 
> 


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