[DXBase] Help: DXBase and TNC with WA8DED Firmware

Sun, 26 May 2002 22:43:06 -0400

Thomas,
Can't you use the option under the "File" button "Upload File To Packet..."
to upload your
configuration file to your TNC. Maybe this would help until Jack can get a
script type upload
thing implemented.

73 de Tony,  KD4K

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Wrede" <[email protected]>
To: "Jack" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: [DXBase] Help: DXBase and TNC with WA8DED Firmware

> All,
>
> Thanks for the quick responses. Really appreciate your support.
>
> 1. Inserting the commands one by one is a (bad) comprise and I realize
> that DXbase cannot send a macro to initialize a TNC and connect to the
> cluster (Please have a look how Logger, DX4WIN and others do it and
> implement it in the next upgrade).
>
> 2. I read the help file and have used the tilda (~).
>
> 3. Baud rates are set correctly. DXbase is bringing the TNC init
> messages in the VHF packet window.
>
> As all other programmes work with my TNC I am still puzzled.
> After the second ESC command (~idf2oo to set the callsign) DXbase hangs
up.
>
> How is the handshake done: via the windows settings or is it hardware
> handshaking (need to change my RS-232 cable in that case)?
>
> I will use a different COM port and do more tests tomorrow evening.
>
>
> Best regards, Tom DF2OO
>
>
> Jack wrote:
>
> > Thomas,
> >
> > It may also be that you do not have the baud rate between your TNC and
your
> > pc set.  You should set the baud rate in the TNC to an explicit baud
rate
> > and then also set this same baud rate in the DXbase user options.
> >
> > There are other customers in Germany who use this same cluster
arrangement
> > so we are sure that it can work.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Courtney
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Thomas Wrede" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 3:11 PM
> > Subject: [DXBase] Help: DXBase and TNC with WA8DED Firmware
> >
> >
> >
> >>After comparing various professional logging programs I finally bought
> >>DXBase at Dayton 2002. Unfortunately I didn't ask about the TNC
> >>interface as I had never any problem with any of the other programs.
> >>
> >>I am using a TNC with "The Firmware", a WA8DED compatible firmware which
> >>is very common in Germany because of its DAMA compatibility.
> >>
> >>To initialize the TNC I need to send the following macro:
> >>
> >>ESC I DF2OO (to set my callsign)
> >>ESC T12 (to set the tx-delay)
> >>ESC S1 (to set the port to No1)
> >>ESC C DB0SAB (my packet node)
> >>C DB0TRI-7 (my cluster to which the node software will connect me
> >>automatically)
> >>
> >>In Logger and in DX4WIN in took me less than 5 minutes to create this
> >>macro and get connected to the packet cluster. No such luck with DXBase.
> >>Apparently I cannot create such macro and if I try to send the commands
> >>manually in the packet window using the 'tilda' the whole programmes
> >>gets hung up (Not responding)after the first or second command.
> >>
> >>The packet window receive the init message after switch-on of the TNC
> >>without any problem but apparently sending anything to the TNC cause
> >>DXBase to hang up. All other programmes on the same PC work without any
> >>problem. I am using Windows 98 on a Pentium II PC. Serial speed is 19200
> >>baud.
> >>
> >>If I use Logger to start the cluster, then close Logger and start DXBase
> >>  I get all cluster messages. But ideally I want to delete Logger from
> >>my harddisk (although for free it's a great programme but it lacks the
> >>features I get from DXBase).
> >>
> >>Any hints are appreciated.
> >>
> >>73s Tom DF2OO
> >>
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