Icom PCR-1000 Scanner on Linux.
April 20th, 2006 by Steven Haigh
For a while now I’ve been hanging on to a working version of pcrd – the linux control program for Icom PCR-1000 scanners. This version will compile with the latest gcc based distributions and work on all known Linux distros. You can find it here. It seems to work well here – the only issue I encounter is sometimes getting the unit to turn on – however after that, it tunes fine for as long as it’s turned on.
If you do notice any problems with pcrd, feel free to let me know – I’ll see what I can do about them. I want to add DSP support, but I don’t have the needed details to do this as yet, so it’s on the todo list.
Hi Steve. Thanks for updating this code. In case anyone else bumps into the same issue I’ve been chasing all night I thought I’d drop you a note. The options to the volume and squelch are indeed hex values, but **MUST** be two digits in length. I use a “-s 1″ parameter and then spent much of the evening trying to figure out why it wasn’t working. It of course wants to see something more like “-s 01″.
-Russ
Hello, I am looking for a PHP script as mentioned in the initial article. I would like to remotely control my radios via this script and pcrd. Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
dwC
This program is great, and I too have made a web/php interface to control the receiver. I like the fact that it is a console program, making it very versitile.
It would be good if it could somehow show the signal strength, say to a maximum sized rolling log so it too could be used, but not a big issue. Even just to return the strength once tuned, so one could script a spectrum analyser/scanner.
Great work
I have a PCR-100 and I am just getting started in PHP/MySQL (I’m 1/2 through the “Dummies” Book). I am no real whiz on Linux either.
I am very interested in a copy of the PHP scripts so I can see how the web interface marries up to pcrd.
If anyone has one they rolled themselves ( or if you wouldn’t mind sharing yours Steve ), my e-mail is good on QRZ.
Thanks for the help
73
Phil / w2lie
Hi Phil,
Since writing this I have re-written it in Perl. I’ll look at putting the code online in the near future.
Great! Thank you for the help.