CODAN 9360 SSB Transceiver

(PE1ITR 2015-03-22)
Recently I bought on the local flee market a CODAN 9360 HF SSB Transceiver. It served many years in Africa. The transceiver is fully operation. After cleaning the dessert dust from the housing I wanted to discover this nice piece of hardware.

This webpage are my notes on this transceiver.



Table of contents



Computer Interfacing

There are several ways to interface the transceiver with the computer

Programming
With Microphone Jack on the front the XPCODAN software it is possible to program the trx. Its a old DOS program from 1994. To run this on a modern Window 7 computer you can use DosBox. I use DOSBox-0.74

Install XPCODAN software.

Connect the serial interface to the tranceiver.
The microphone socket pin out.


PinFunction
1Loudspeaker audio output
2Microphone input
3Ground
4Data in
5PTT in (active low) and data out
6Battery (switched)
7Front panel speaker (ground return)



Wires from the trx to the serial port

Serial PortMicrophone Socket
3 - TXD - Orange Wire4 - Data in
2 - RXD - Green Wire5 - PTT in and data out
5 - GND - Brown Wire3 - Ground
The orange wire from microphone pin 1 to 7 is to enable the front speaker.



When the rs232 interface is connected the trx shows this display.


I use a usb-to-serial interface. Find out on which comport the usb interface is assigned. In my case it is com15.
Edit the startup config of dosbox to set the dos comport to this port.
serial1=directserial realport:COM15
Serial port 15 is connected to DOS Serial port 1
Start DOSBox


Start the XPCODAN program with the command XP.


Select the 9360 Transceiver.


Controlling
There is 3.5mm Stereo Jack indicating RS232 on rear of transceiver. This is used for GPS and it is also It is possible to control the selected channels with a standard serial port communication software. This has to be switched on in the trx config.

Tip-Radio data input
Ring-Radio data output
Sleeve- Ground

I connected with with Minicom (Linux). Setting: 9600 8N1 No hardware or software control



This is the list of commands I found out by "try and error" so far:
CommandResponseRemark
FREQ?Returns the actual freq
CHAN?Returns the actual channel nummer
SIDEBAND?Returns the select sideband
FREQ=10147.3Sets the frequecy to the nearest programmed channel
CHAN=1Sets to channel 1

ALECALL=address,S
ALPHAID=alphanumeric address"
CHAN=channel number
CHAN?
ECHO=ON
ECHO=OFF
FREQ=kHz frequency
FREQ?
GPSBEACON=address,S
MUTE=OFF
MUTE=SELCALL
MUTE=VOICE
PAGECALL=address,"message",S
SCAN=scan table number
SCAN=OFF
SCAN=ON
SCAN?
SELBEACON=address,S
SELCALL=address,S
SIDEBAND=USB
SIDEBAND=LSB
SIDEBAND=AM
SIDEBAND?
STATUSACK=address,"message",S
STATUSCALL=address,"message",S
STATUSTIME=timeout
STATUSTIME?
TELCALL=address>,telephone number,S
VER?

Digital Modes


Robust Packet on 10.1473 MHz.

I am active with Packet Radio (APRS and Winlink) and JT65 on the HF bands.
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