TS870RC

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.
• OS X speech synthesis voice feedback.
• Localized UTC clock.
• Simple localized 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. Peak hold option.
• Simple band-scope/spectrum analyzer.
• Favorite save/ load one frequency by mouse click or shortcut.
• Direct jump to frequency harmonics.
• Seperate frequency panel for transverter usage
• RIT +-RX offset RX in 10 Hz steps.
• Integrated amateur-prefixes, broadcast and beacon 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. You will need a USB-to-serial-port adaptor. Get more information and hints on my website.