[Elecraft] KPA100 - RS232 difficulties

Sun Jan 12 19:22:02 2003

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Stasiak" <[email protected]>
To: "Don Brown" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 3:28 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] KPA100 - RS232 difficulties


> Don
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.  You hit a home run!!!!  or more appropriately
> for us Canadians scored a goal on the penalty shot!!!!!
>
> I had made the mods on the control board.  But it was far easier to check
> them, than taking the KPA100 apart.
>
> The jumpers were in the correct spots but I had a cold joint at the jumper
> connection to P4 pin 1.
> I redid it and plugged the board back in.  It never occurred to me to
check
> those mods until your suggestion.
>
> Right away K2 Remote worked fine.
>
> 73
>
> Rick VE3MM
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Brown" <[email protected]>
> To: "Richard Stasiak" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 2:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA100 - RS232 difficulties
>
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Did you do the mod to the control board and if you did check it to be
sure
> > you got it right. It is easy to put the jumpers on the wrong pins.
> >
> > Don Brown
> > KD5NDB
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richard Stasiak" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 1:38 PM
> > Subject: [Elecraft] KPA100 - RS232 difficulties
> >
> >
> > > Hello fellow Elecrafters
> > >
> > > Just finished up the KPA 100 - the PA works fb.
> > >
> > > However, I cannot get the RS232 port to work.
> > >
> > > I have checked the computer cable three times and resoldered the pins
of
> > U4.
> > >
> > > I can turn the port on and off, using the menu command
> > >
> > > Using Hyperterminal, I can get the K2 to send the frequency to the
> > computer
> > > ok., but I cannot send the  command (SW01;) to the K2 to get it change
> > > bands.
> > >
> > > When I run K2 remote and select the COM port, K2 Remote comes back
with
> an
> > > error message to check the RS 232 connection or make sure the K2 is
> > powered
> > > up.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any suggestions or ideas on things to check?
> > >
> > > 73
> > >
> > > Rick VE3MM
> > > K2/100 #1591
> > >
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