[GPS_Standard] Running GPS_Std Montrol on Win7

[Chris Howard w0ep]

(re-sending to the whole group)

I have successfully run a perl script on a Linux PC to talk
to my VE2ZAZ GPSDO.  I don't remember any magic characters
coming from the device.

It has been a long time since I looked at it.

I think I remember the serial port settings are slightly strange.
And a computer-to-computer serial port setup may need a
cross-over cable or null-modem or something like that.



On 5/9/2017 10:57 AM, Arve Rønning wrote:
> 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
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