[GPS_Standard] Progress is steady

[Mark G0MGX]

Hi Team

I've finished my build and I am finding the FLL status LED a bit tricky 
to interpret however **i think** initially I had amber flashing red, but 
now I have amber flashing off.

I'm trying to get comms working through the serial port to better 
understand what's going on; I have a MAX232 chip configured on the TX 
and  RX lines and that is feeding to a USB to Serial adaptor :-(. I have 
a HyperTerminal equivalent which I have configured in VT100 mode (have 
also tried al sorts of other emulation modes). I am seeing some 
information looking like this:

2D|C8
|C8
F|C8
531|C8
0532|C8

But not the strings I would expect. I have had to enable local echo to 
see any types characters and "?" as an input results in nothing back. It 
looks like I might be seeing the end only of the string from the 
firmware - I say this because of the incrementing count ending 0532 
which I think is the TimeStamp.

I have lots of question marks in the setup. My MAX232 circuit, the RS232 
lead, the USB adaptor and also the hyperterm.

Anyone have any experience with this kind of comms and where I should 
start to look?

Thanks,

Mark
G0MGX