[1000mp] Serial Port Dead

[Tad Williamson]

Great news, Rob.  This post site is really great and
the questions asked almost alway lead to a fix!  I've
been in the I.T. business for over 25 years and we
have always called it the "RS-232 Non-standard"



--- Rob Murray <rmmurray at xplornet.com> wrote:

> EUREKA!!!!!
> 
> Thank you, Ross! It works fine with my desk machine,
> a older Dell with a
> standard DB9 serial port. You know, I checked for
> the presence of signal
> output out of the USB/Serial Port convertor on the
> laptop, but I didn't
> think to check for signal level - after all, it is
> covered by the RS232
> standard...
> 
> Assumption is the mother....   !!!
> 
> Anyway, thanks to all, now I know it is not my
> lovely Mark V...!
> 
> 73
> 
> Robert Murray    VA7RMM
> RR1 S5 C16
> Edgewood, BC    V0G 1J0
> Phone/Fax (250) 269-7698
>  
> 
> > 
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 06:36:09 -0600
> > From: "Ross Stenberg" <k9cox at charter.net>
> > Subject: RE: [1000mp] Serial Port Dead
> > To: "'All about Yaesu 1000mp'"
> <1000mp at mailman.qth.net>
> > Message-ID: <005301c627f5$3ed6c090$6401a8c0 at ross>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"
> > 
> > Since you are using a laptop I assume you are
> using a USB to 
> > serial adaptor unless it is an older machine. For
> reasons 
> > unknown (it must be related to the RS232 voltage
> levels) my 
> > laptop with a USB to serial converter will work
> fine with 
> > four different radios but not the MARK V Field. It
> does 
> > however work fine with an old desktop and a built
> in RS232 port.
> > 
> > 	73 Ross K9COX 
> > 
> 
> 
>
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