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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.

This entry was posted by Steven Haigh on April 20, 2006 at 10:58 pm under Radios. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

7 Comments

  1. Russ Mirov says:

    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

    June 17, 2007, 4:19 pm

  2. dwC says:

    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

    October 15, 2007, 3:11 pm

  3. Paul says:

    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 :-)

    March 13, 2009, 12:01 am

  4. Phil says:

    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

    February 14, 2010, 4:54 pm

  5. Steven Haigh says:

    Hi Phil,

    Since writing this I have re-written it in Perl. I’ll look at putting the code online in the near future.

    February 14, 2010, 6:39 pm

  6. Phil says:

    Great! Thank you for the help.

    February 16, 2010, 12:09 am

  7. Rob says:

    Steven,

    Do you have the perl scripts available? The php would be fine, too.

    Thanks,
    Rob

    June 21, 2011, 1:29 pm

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