[FADCA] Re:Help

[Chuck Hast]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:02:48 EST, Kg4fcd at aol.com <Kg4fcd at aol.com> wrote:
>  My packet set up is:
> Kantronics KPC3+ TNC. It is connected to a Kenwood Tm-G707A.
> The radio was just returned from Kenwood telling me it and the cable were ok.
> I have not as yet heard from Quatrains.
> The problem;
> With everything connected except the antenna to the radio. The TNC is turned
> on and everything is ok and it signs on like it should. As soon as I turn on
> the radio, the TNC goes into a hard Receive mode. Both the radio and the TNC
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is not clear ---------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ what is this?
do you mean
that the DCD is stuck on? if so perhaps the device is using audio squelch for
the DCD and it needs to be set up for digital. If not stuck DCD can you explain
a bit more what you mean with this?



> are set to 1200 baud.
> I have tried a hard reset on the TNC and nothing changes. I have tried
> changing them both to 9600 baud but that does not help.
> I would like to upgrade to a Kantronics 9612 but at this point I am tempted
> to chuck the whole mess.

Naawww don't do that it is fixable I am sure, perhaps just some setting that
needs to be changed from a factory default. Those TNC's that had digital
DCD back then you had to either install it or turn it on. If it was
off a open squelch
would hold the TNC off. You would see a stuck DCD. As soon as you turned on
digital DCD the DCd led would go out and only turn on in the presense of data
or noise that sounded like data.


> Until IVAN came thru everything worked fine. At that time I had a power surge
> that killed the TNC but Kantronics says it has been fixed.
> I also have a new Kenwood TM-G707 that does the same thing which points me
> back to the TNC. Or can there be something else?
> 

I am betting on DCD settings. Give us more input on the status indicators on the
TNC.
-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."