Commander Online Help Contents
Commander can be configured to rapidly switch between up to four simultaneously-connected radios. The Configuration window's Multi Radio tab lets you specify control and serial port settings for each radio, and assign each radio a unique name. If a Pegasus or Kachina radio is chosen, a Select button appears that when clicked lets you specify a Control Folder or Control File respectively. Each enabled radio's name appears on a selection button on the Main window's VFO panel; a radio can only be enable if its Model has been specified and if its serial port parameters have been specified (for those radios controlled via a serial port). Clicking a radio's selection button sets controls on the Configuration window's General and Ports tabs to the appropriate values for the specified radio, as specified on the Multi Radio tab.
You can configure Commander to automatically switch between simultaneously-connected radios by specifying the radio to use for each amateur band. Check the Selection by band panel's Auto box, and Commander will automatically switch to the correct radio as a function of operating frequency.
You can configure Commander to identify the currently-selected radio via a binary encoding on pins 16 and 14 of a specified parallel port.