CAT control like SDR Console for Educational Projects

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Hi Alexandre,

I start a new discussion on the same subject with hope you'll consider to improve the Rigctl client.
Like many users, I'm using a SDR interface plugged into my radio for Panadaptor/Waterfall. This interface does not output an IF frequency but act as an Antenna with the advantage of all the Yaesu filters which deliver a filtered signal. On my radio there is many bands and in order to receive one of them with the SDR, I have to switch to this band on my radio by entering the frequency or select the band with a button.

For me SDR Console is the best tool because of amazing noise cancelling tools but has a major inconvenient : there is no Linux version !

As you can see in the screen copy below, this software allow two modes : direct antenna and IF Frequency for tuning:

So, actually in SDR++ there is no choice and we have to use IF Frequency mode. The problem is that this frequency is not the same on all bands. I finbally found the one who match AirspyHF+ discovery but there is little offsets when I change band. SDR Console give the possibility to set offsets and you should consider to add this feature too.

Anyway, I don't need that since SDR++ receive all the frequencies of the band I have set on my Yaesu Radio and I hope you SDR++ will allow to control radios via CAT/Hamlib without modifying the IF Frequency too.

But most of all, I hope SDR++ will allow to set the frequency to the transceiver by increasing or decreasing the digits with the mouse of by clicking anywhere on the waterfall like SDR Console actually do.

I'm trying to persuade you to improve this module so that it meets my needs to ensure the success of my educational projects around radio that I carry out every year with my schoolchildren because I'm a technology teacher and I teach this subject through amateur radio.

At the college where I work, all the computers are on Linux because we couldn't afford to renew our IT equipment. So we've recycled some old computers with Linux, and they're running perfectly.

SDR++ is my last hope to have a working system with my old Yaesu FT-847 cause as teacher, I don't have money to buy new SDR Radio with waterfall like I dream. And finally, the computer screen with SDR++ is more comfortable to use than a little screen.

Thanks for reading. I would appreciate if you could answer and say me if you project to do something for me or not.

David.