TS870RC is for radio amateurs and ham radio.
I am a fan of the Kenwood TS-870 ham radio transceiver. What I missed was a straight remote control app for OS X, so I started to develope one. Here it is, it covers some main functions:
- Serial data baudrate selectable between 9600 and 57600.
- Power button to switch TS-870 on/off by the software.
- OSX speech synthesis voice feedback.
- Simple quick note "logbook" in csv/ssv format.
- Amateur radio band selector.
- Frequency control.
- Mode selector.
- Receiver bandwidth selector.
- Antenna and Attenuator selector.
- AGC control for SSB
- Squelch and RF-Gain selector.
- Notch and Beat filter selector.
- Volume control.
- 10 memories selector, Read, Write, List, Clear.
- Extern RX passthrough selector.
- Digital and analog readout S-Meter.
- Simple band-scope/spectrum analyzer.
- Direct jump to frequency harmonics.
- Separate frequency panel for transverter usage
- RIT +-RX offset RX in 10 Hz steps.
- Integrated amateur-prefixes and broadcast-lists via menu item.
- Transmitter RX/TX control.
- VOX control.
- TX Power control 10, 50, 100%.
- TX Power-Amplifier control.
- TX Mic-Gain, Processor response, Mic-AGC, others.
- TX audio Equalizer control.
- TX bandwidth and shift selector.
- Save and load TX audio parameters as "local/dx" presets.
- AM, CW carrier selector, ALC compared.
- TX Monitor selector.
- Antenna-Tuner control.
- VSWR test button.
- RX/TX split frequency support.
- Sub-tone support for 29 MHz repeaters.
- Digital recording playback and loop (if DRU-3 option installed).
The Demo version is free, while frequency control, TX control, and memory features are blocked.
What you will need is a USB to Serial-Port adaptor. Get more information and hints on my website.
