[Elecraft] K2 commands - software guru help needed

[Stewart Baker]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:31:35 +0100, Tony Wells wrote:
> Hi Stewart,
> Stewart wrote:
>>> I think that timing may be a separate issue in this case.
> IMHO it is not separate. Careful timing enables the software to bypass the
> buffer overflow issue. This is because of the "lack" of flow control.

>> OK, Tony.
>> Your mail gave me a chance to re-think.
>> I now understand that a major difference between the Kenwood and K2 RS232 is 
>> not the command set, but the fact that Kenwood uses hardware flow control and 
>> the K2 doesn't. (Takes a while for the penny to drop !!)

>> This means that sending out commands to a K2 without some delay between
>> them is questionable, and strings of commands are potentially dangerous.
>> If that is so then the K2 cannot be really thought of as Kenwood compatible.

>> I now think that what I was seeing re the order of the commands was a 'smoke 
>> screen'  for what is really going on. Where now ??

73
Stewart G3RXQ

> Regards
> Tony
> G7IGG