Ham Radio Digital Modes and CAT Control for the Kenwood TS-440S (IC-10 Installation) 

I'd love to do the raspberry pi integration, do you have more info on this @alandigiovanni5282 ?

where did you find the IC chip set? i looked on pie xx and it came up zero results

I've done the same thing, but for some reason, I keep getting the error, I've come back to the old radio to try get it going, got any hints ?

IC-10 just arrived, time to make a set of cables.

Good to hear from you Ed!!! Hope all is well!!! You know, I tried using my brand new Raspberry Pi 400 with this task, and it was too dog slow! I couldn't tell if it was just a problem with the Pi, or the Linux distro, or maybe even fldigi, but it was unbearable. A project for another day will be for me to tweak the settings as much as possible and get it working efficiently on a Pi. Probably doesn't help having a waterfall running too. I was shocked how quickly I was up and running in Windows! Enjoy your weekend my friend!

@@MarkyShaw I mainly use JTDX. I've overclocked my Pi 4b as far as it will stably go (~1.8Ghz), and it can't keep up with a busy band. But the truth is that an i7 Intel NUC that I have - a couple generations old, but still a quad core i7 - can't do it either. Watching the Pi, I know why. At least for FT8. It tries to cram most of the computing into those two seconds between transmission windows. So the Pi would just put-put along at 700mhz or something until the end of the transmitting cycle, and then the CPU would immediately max out. Problem was that it couldn't finish processing the signals in the two seconds it had. So I would get lag. A lot of lag if it was like 20m with 45 signals to decode. I think I'm just gonna live with the i7 at home and the Pi when going remote. It doesn't decode everything, but it still basically works.

yes it will..

Interesting! Usually the only time I’ve seen a rig control error is if the COM port selection is wrong. If you open up your Device Manager in Windows and expand the Ports section, unplug and replug in your USB to serial cable and double check what number it shows up as. Only other time I’ve had those errors is when I was transmitting and it caused my USB devices to disconnect because of stray RF and an inadequate counterpoise on my antenna. I’m leaning towards a com port issue in your case. Let me know!

@@MarkyShaw ok I'll check that today, the USB to serial cable does it need a driver because the company I brought it from say's NO, I have my USB to serial cable going to a usb to rs232 db9 adapter thats correct yes.

@@MarkyShaw I got this going yesterday but now its not working my ALC needle doesn't move and it was yesterday, If I use my mic the ALC needle moves and I also get the red on air light, software changes the frequency OK, I've installed the CHIPI-X drivers and it was sending and receiving OK, its got me foxed.

Sure thing my friend! This is an affiliate link! Feel free to check it out. It's a standard USB to Serial cable with the Prolific chipset. amzn.to/3o4AH0C hope this helps! Keep in mind you'll need the CAT control cable in addition to this serial to USB cable. I simply got the serial version of the CAT control cable since it's a little more universal for my tastes! Good luck!

@@MarkyShaw thank you Sir!

Hey there Rob, I can tell you that this build has worked great so far with just about any ham apps for Windows. I have thoroughly tested WSJT-X, FLDIGI , and Hamscope in particular and they all work great. In Linux, WSJT-X works well, but FLDIGI does not. Regarding the CAT control cable, they make a version that goes straight from CAT Din to USB on the computer. It basically has a built-in USB-Serial chipset in it. You can find them all over eBay. I personally like the CAT Din to DB9 version, but whatever works best for your application! I haven't tried any Panadapter solutions for this yet, but I've read that is possible with the right setup. Hope it works out for you!