[GPS_Standard] Running GPS_Std Montrol on Win7

[Arve Rønning]

Hi all.
This is my first message to the list, so please be patient :)

I'm trying to make a clone of the VE2ZAZ GPSDO using an ATXMEGA128A3U 
processor.
To simplify the work I would like to use the Montrol v4 app on my win7 box.

At the moment there seems to be a problem with Montrol reading incoming 
characters from COM1 (the hardware COM-port on my PC).
Everything seems ok when I start Montrol, no error messages.

I then send the string "L|.|0806|.|.|6800|0013|FFFE|0030|00\r\n" to COM1 
from another PC, but nothing appears in the Montrol monitor window.

- Reception of the teststring on COM1 has been verified by PuTTY 4800N1
- When Montrol is running, COM1 can not be opened from PuTTY, so Montrol 
seems to open COM1

I also tried running Montrol as administrator with compatibility 
settings for Win95, Win98, Win2000, Win XP (SP2 and SP3), but no luck.

- Is Montrol waiting for a 'magic' string to start the logging of 
incoming status strings from the COM port?
- Does the fact that Montrol was made for an older Windows affect it's 
ability to handle COM-ports under Win7?

Any ideas?

73 de LA6FI, Arve