I did a bit of work trying to get CI-V up with RemoteRig. In the Radio Settings page, there is a pulldown menu for Program Mode. Option 1 is Icom CI-V and Option 2 is IC-7100, IC-706, IC-703. This implies that I can run either CI-V or control head, not both. I will need to dig into it a little deeper. The power of being able to choose either the control head or the laptop/cellphone option would be *greatly* enhanced if I didn’t have to choose before I left town. I know that the comm ports can be set up to carry other data, such as rotator control, while the control head is operational. I presume that CI-V can also be set up thusly. It will take a little experimenting with the laptop and both RemoteRig devices on the bench.

Meanwhile, I got some brass hardware and made the contact blocks on the Code Warrior better.

This is the stock stainless steel hardware, a screw directly in the contact block and through the wire lug. Note that the wire lug would rather stay with the screw than with the nylon insulator. With three or more hands, I could hold the lug and the block while tightening the screw, but I’m picky that way.

After, the block is held by the first nut and the wiring by the second. As expected, the new assembly is taller than the rubber feet, so I will have to get some taller ones to fix that. I did have the proper application of flat washers, but the entire assembly was even taller, making the rubber feet problem worse.

There is still one more minor improvement needed for it to be called finished, namely to fill the hole though the base so that the blocks only go in one place.