Hello F1FCO,

Long time since I talked to someone in France...Maybe on 15 meters, or 20 meters <g>

What you could do, is connect two LCD's up to the exact same PIC (in 8 bit mode), but the Enable pin will of one LCD will go to Port a.0. the Enable Pin of LCD 2 will go to Port a.1, and the LCD control pin (for LCD command/Write) will go on Port a.2. That way you can just "Toggle" Porta.0 if you want that command to go to the 1st LCD. If you want to send the data/command to the second LCD, toggle the porta.1. The other LCD should egnore the data, because you are not "Toggling" it to accept anything.

Thus, with PortB (8pins) and 3 pins of Porta you can control 2 LCD's. If you want to control 3 LCD's it will take 4 pins on Porta. etc.

I used to do EME for quite some time Used KLM 32 element running 1/2 of a Kilo on 2 mtrs. Ran CW for many years. Did a lot of Sat communication... Was able to do Packet, SSTV, RTTY, and standard communication when AO 10 was up

Dwayne