I’m working on a similar issue with FT-857. Finally realized that I needed an additional cable for CAT. Ordered an 8-pin mini-din cable and located a source for the header connector. 

I’ll post with results once CAT cable is configured.

Ruben

WA2NBL

On Nov 23, 2019, at 3:52 PM, Ed Bloom, KD9FRQ via Groups.Io <ewbloom@...> wrote:

Has anyone connected their DRAWS to an FT-897 yet?  I am looking for some assistance.

Specifically, cabling needs for the setup.

It looks like from all I have read, I still need a USB to Serial to run any Rig Control outside of
PTT.

Is this correct?

On Nov 23, 2019, at 3:52 PM, Ed Bloom, KD9FRQ via Groups.Io <ewbloom@...> wrote:

Has anyone connected their DRAWS to an FT-897 yet?  I am looking for some assistance.

Specifically, cabling needs for the setup.

It looks like from all I have read, I still need a USB to Serial to run any Rig Control outside of
PTT.

Is this correct?

Good to know - thanks, Mitch!

That explains why the body of the message that I was using as a template is formatted the way it is (screen shot from my write-up):

...

Thanks for the info!

-Scott

================================

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 12:14 PM Mitch Winkle <ab4mw@...> wrote:

Scott,

Typically, ICS-213s are normalized down to numbered lines per the PDF
forms provided by the form owners.  What gets transmitted OTA is simply
the numeral followed by the data.

See the attached snip.

Mitch


On 11/22/19 11:50 AM, K4KDR wrote:
> Hi Mitch!
>
> Sorry, I'm not positive what you mean by "numbered format", but I did
> notice there was a field <msgseqnum> that seemed to be assigned by the
> sender (me) and incremented with each subsequent message.  So, I
> mentioned in my how-to that we should track that value and increase it
> on the next message, etc.
>
> Hope that's what you're referring to.
>
> In any event, it's cool to send via PAT and, when received on a
> Windows Winlink client, have the form pop open exactly as it should. 
> That was my metric to gauge whether I was successful or not.  I also
> contacted the net control station at one of our "Winlink Wednesday"
> stations that gives anyone interested a place to stay sharp on using
> Winlink.  He also confirmed that my ICS-213 was received correctly
> when I did a test send from the Pi.
>
> -Scott
>
>
> ===============================
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Mitch Winkle
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:30 AM
> To: udrc@nw-digital-radio.groups.io
> Subject: Re: [draws and udrc] #claws-mail ICS Forms
>
> I can certainly add the current ICS-213 to my UI client for PAT. Are you
> simply using the numbered format for the OTA transmission?
>
> 1.
> 2. etc.
>
> On 11/22/19 10:51 AM, K4KDR wrote:
>> Good day!
>>
>> Just to show myself that it could be done, I successfully sent an
>> ICS-213 using PAT on the Rasp Pi/DRAWS.
>>
>> Here is my write up on the manual steps I did to make it happen.  Not
>> difficult at all but someone could certainly automate the process to
>> reduce the amount of editing by hand for a new message.
>>
>> http://k4kdr.github.io/pdf/2019-10-17--ics-forms-from-pat.pdf
>>
>> 73!
>>
>> -Scott,  K4KDR
>>

Ryan Matthew Headley <headley.ryan@gmail.com> writes:

And then I attache the k2s file to a message and receive it in Winlink
Express,

How did you receive it?
In Winlink Express click on attachment paper clip which will prompt you for which browser to
render the file with.

this is the content that is received:

<flmsg>4.0.14
:hdr_fm:21

OK.

After a restart of the Raspberry Pi, the ICS form now appears on the CUSTOM
list in flmsg.

However, once the form is completed and I click 'Submit' at the bottom of
the webpage, I am returned to flmsg where instead of my entered text
appearing, something such as '�� �������� �� � ' appears.

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 12:39 PM Ryan Matthew Headley via Groups.Io
<headley.ryan=gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:

Sorry for the hasty response. The meat of it holds though.

After downloading the html files, moving them to the CUSTOM folder,
running flmsg, and selecting 'CUSTOM'; nothing shows up except 'Transfer
FORM.'

I promise that I am not being purposefully obtuse. What steps and I
missing?

Sorry for the hasty response. The meat of it holds though.

After downloading the html files, moving them to the CUSTOM folder, running flmsg, and selecting 'CUSTOM'; nothing shows up except 'Transfer FORM.'

I promise that I am not being purposefully obtuse. What steps and I missing?