[Dx4win] Radio timeouts?

[Mel Martin]

Paul... the same thing happens with my 781... at one time it was a real
problem.... but doesn't dx4win have a retry now... I don't have the program
in front of me at work... but Paul made some changes quite a while back in
ver 5.03 that very much reduces the problem... are you running 5.03?

Seems to me it still happens.... but only very very rarely... and it happens
I'm changing frequency a lot... i.e. spinning the dial...

I hope Paul revisits the whole radio control routine next release... it's
the only program that has ever had problems with my radio. (it's pretty good
now since he patched it up) He needs to support the Icoms in C-IV
"tranceive" mode also... gives much faster near real-time update of the
radio info... and avoids problems with the newer Icom accessories that
require the "transceive" mode enabled...  I wish Icom had given this mode
another name... it's confusing to those not familiar with it's operation...
it means the radio emits automatically a data packet when mode or frequency
is changed.... but the logging program has to read the data asyncronously...
this is where Dx4Win is having a problem it seems...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul B. Peters, VE7AVV" <ve7avv@shaw.ca>
To: "DX4WIN Reflector" <dx4win@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 14:40
Subject: [Dx4win] Radio timeouts?


> I use a pair of Kenwood TS-850's. The interface to my computer is the
> N6TR -- ultra-simplistic design. It works great, but DX4WIN does from
> time-to-time generate a radio timeout message. If I spin the dial hard or
> I'm just cruising up and down the band, I can without difficulty timeout
the
> radio. I have experimented with the poll rate and found 1000ms seems to
> works better than the default of 5000ms -- but the timeouts still occur.
The
> interface works very well with other programs -- so I have eliminated this
> from the equation.
>
> I would be interested in knowing from this community and especially from
> other Kenwood 850 owners (who might have seen similar radio timeouts), if
> you have experimented and changed the baud rate for the com port that
hosts
> the radio interface. In looking at my settings the com port (in the
Windows
> Control Panel System settings) is set to 9600 yet the radio operates at
the
> Kenwood default of 4800. Is this a problem?
> Further if you have experienced radio timeouts (specifically with a
Kenwood
> radio), what if anything have you tried and did it work?
>
> 73 de Paul, VE7AVV
> StoneyGround Station
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