When used as a client, you don’t configure rigs. On the Server Setting screens, you configure your rigs and on the Remote Operation screens you select and connect to your rigs. The confusion starts with Remote Utility executable being both client and server.
There is no need for a virtual audio cable or virtual com port driver, it’s all included. This is exactly what Remote Utility does.
The client program will create virtual com ports and audio devices so that you can use your application software as if your PC was directly connected to the rig. For this you need a server program that is direct connected to the rig, and a client program from which you control the rig.
The Remote Utility programįor using a rig remotely, you need to transfer serial port data and stream receive and transmit audio. But if you assume that this program is just for controlling and programming the rig from your PC, you run into misunderstanding since you cannot program the rig memories with it. The Remote Control program is actually very smart and handles this for you. Next time when user A uses the rig, memory 1 has changed unexpectedly. Now user B programs memory 1 with some other value. Why? Otherwise user A programs memory 1 and this is stored in the rig. So settings in the program are your own settings and these are different from the local settings in the rig. The second program is Icom specific, but supports multiple Icom transceiver models. The first program is actually very generic and as such can be used with other transceivers as well. RS-BA1 consists of a program called Remote Utility that implements the client-server communication across the network and a program called Remote Control for controlling your rig from your PC. With this post I hope to create some more understanding, RS-BA1 deserves it. Here it helps to understand the software, before configuring it from the documentation or internet sources. Also the naming of the various menus (due to translation?) is confusing. So why these diverse opinions? My guess is that there is little knowledge on why Icom is doing things a certain way. Even more, I can remote control my TS-2000 with it as well. Actually it works so much better than I expected. I’ve tested the software with my IC-7300 and concluded that it works fine.
The Icom RS-BA1 software is being discussed a lot. In version 1.94 (introduced on ) the typos are corrected, the drop-down menu at the top is removed and a number of wizards are added to assist with configuration. Note: This post applies to RS-BA1 version 1.93.