[GPS_Standard] Progress is steady

[Chris Howard w0ep]

Have you tried the ve2zaz software "Montrol"?
That might clear up any speed/parity/stop-bit issues.




On 11/15/2013 7:11 AM, Mark G0MGX wrote:
> 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
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