CI-V interface?

[ka3jjz]

I don't know if anyone is looking for one of these; but I just came across this and thought I might throw it out there if anyone needed it...

USB CI-V Icom Interface

USB CI-V Icom Interface - Connecting your Icom radios to your computer has never been easier!

www.blackcatsystems.com

Mike

 

[krokus]

I wonder if the versions with more than one port are just wiring the 3.5mm jacks in parallel?

 

[majoco]

Many years ago, about 2002, I bought a Yaesu VX-2, a tiny 2m handheld. I found a neat programme called "VX-2 Commander" by Jim Mitchell which required an interface from a computer Com port to a four-conductor jack into the radio. A bit of hunting and I found a constructional article on how to build one and it worked very well - the programme and the interface. A couple of years ago I found an Icom R7000 on our local web auction and again found a programme to talk to it - also called "Commander" but author unknown. A quick bit of soldering fitted a 2 conductor plug for the R7000 and would you beleive - the same interface for the VX-2 works for the R7000! ...and
-yes, it does work through a USB to Comport adapter! Photos and the original pdf attached.

 

[ka3jjz]

Martin, I suspect this is the program you used?

Commander

Commander - an application that controls multiple HF transceivers from a PC

www.dxlabsuite.com

Mike

 

[EricCottrell]

Hello,

I looked up the schematic of the Icom CT-17 (it is in the manual). It is just a MAX232 with a power supply. The TTL TX and RX pins are connected together and go through a simple low-pass filter to the tip connection of the four mono 3.5mm jacks.

73 Eric

 

[majoco]

Mike said:

Martin, I suspect this is the program you used?

Yes, that's the one.

 

[TNORRIS]

(old post but just came across it and remembered I had the CT-17 CV-I)
Running Icom IC-R7000 with added Voice Synthesizer board (picked up decades ago from a local Surplus Store and fixed it).

 

[krokus]

Hello,

I looked up the schematic of the Icom CT-17 (it is in the manual). It is just a MAX232 with a power supply. The TTL TX and RX pins are connected together and go through a simple low-pass filter to the tip connection of the four mono 3.5mm jacks.

73 Eric

(old post but just came across it and remembered I had the CT-17 CV-I)
Running Icom IC-R7000 with added Voice Synthesizer board (picked up decades ago from a local Surplus Store and fixed it).

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Those appear to be 3.5mm TRS jacks, with the tips isolated. (Unless the leads are laid out differently than I am used to.)

 

[TNORRIS]

(aka MONO) faked using Stereo ports, yes.
Converted from TRS to TS is looks like.