The ICOM CI-V interface does not get confused. It is designed to handle up
to 4 radios with 1 COM port. Each Icom radio uses a different memory
address. That is how the interface keeps track of it. Set each radio to
it's default address and you should be able to use it.
73
Carl
----- Original Message -----
From: <wx3m@comcast.net>
To: <na-user@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:24 PM
Subject: [NA-User] 2 radios - 1 COM port
> I have recently (yesterday) acquired a second IC-765. This came with the
> CI-V interface.
>
> I have used my current IC-765 with NA using a homebrew interface. As they
> sit right now, RIG-1 is on COM-3 and RIG-2 is on COM-4. All is well and
> communicating happily . . .
>
> I would like to combine the communications to both radios into one COM
port,
> (so I can do SO2R from a laptop). The Icom (and the homebrew) computer
> interfaces allow you to use several radios on one interface.
>
> How do I do this?
>
> I assume that if I have both radios hooked to the interface on COM X, and
NA
> configured to RIG-1=IC-765 and RIG-2=IC-765, NA and the interface will not
> know which radio is which and become confused.
>
> I assume I will have to change the address (HEX value/assignment) for one
of
> the radios. If I leave RIG-1 the way it is, and set RIG-2 to, say, an
> IC-781, and change the radio 2 to communicate like an IC-781, can NA talk
to
> both radios on the same COM port?
>
> Don WX3M
>
> Don Chisholm
> dchishol@oakland.edu
> http://www.oakland.edu/~dchishol/
> "I didn't do it. Nobody saw me. You can't prove anything." - Bart
Simpson
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