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On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 03:03:33 -0700, ueli.niggli wrote:

On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 12:24:39 PM UTC+2, Martin Gregorie
wrote:
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:18:19 -0700, Andrzej Kobus wrote:


The worst I can say about them is that entering frequency names is
somewhat slow and fiddly and, since its a computer-based radio I'd
gladly have paid a bit more for one with an SD card slot if that had
been an option: typing names and frequencies into a file on the card
and then stuffing it into the slot would be a lot quicker and easier as
well as providing a nice backup for the list.

If anybody from Dittel is reading this, there's a free suggestion for
you (an upgrade would be nice, hint hint).


Martin, why don't you just enter the frequencies and names with the PC
program from Dittel? The cable is soldered in half an hour.

Sounds good, so I just looked at the latest manuals on the Dittel site.
There's nothing in the contents list or on the pinout diagrams of the
KRT2/KRT2A or KRT2-Col manuals, though I did see there are downloads of
versions of the KRT2Manager for XP and later Windows versions.

Thanks for the heads-up. Making up a download wiring harness for the my
KRT2 and persuading the KRT2Manager to run on Linux under Wine looks like
a nice winter project.


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A wiring diagramm is included in the zip file of the krt2manager application.

On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 06:58:19 -0700, Alexander Swagemakers wrote:

A wiring diagramm is included in the zip file of the krt2manager
application.

I found that when I looked at the ZIP and should have mentioned that.
Apologies. Do you know if this feature is supported by all KRT2 firmware
versions or will it need a firmware upgrade to use it? I bought mine in
December 2013 (s/n 30874).


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
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Hi Martin, my KRT2 was also bought around December 2013 and not updated since then, so I guess it should work with yours. I didn't have a pinout for the cable but just connected the RS232 TX to the RX Pin of the KRT2, and of course 12V supply. After the mandatory RX/TX mistake it worked.

On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 00:23:42 -0700, ueli.niggli wrote:

Hi Martin, my KRT2 was also bought around December 2013 and not updated
since then, so I guess it should work with yours. I didn't have a pinout
for the cable but just connected the RS232 TX to the RX Pin of the KRT2,
and of course 12V supply. After the mandatory RX/TX mistake it worked.

Thanks for that. BTW, I've been assuming that the KRT2Manager is
bidirectional, i.e. that it can suck the existing frequency database out
of the radio and write it to disk as well as writing it in.

I'll definitely make up a Y-cable (data on one leg and 12v on the other)
and get the KRT2Manager running under Wine this winter.


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