[Ham-Mac] Help Needed With Setting Up Multimode

[R M Greenwood]

On Jan 31, 2004, at 7:14 PM, Chris Smolinski wrote:

>> On Jan 31, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Chris Smolinski wrote:
>>
>>>>> It starts as soon as you select the serial port in MultiMode, or 
>>>>> as soon as you plug everything together?
>>>>
>>>> Chris - as soon as I select the serial port.  As long as I don't 
>>>> select a serial port for PTT, I can receive fine with everything 
>>>> hooked up.
>>>
>>> Hmm... while I don't see that here, I have one suggestion, try 
>>> selecting the port, quitting MultiMode, then running it again, and 
>>> see if the port behaves itself.
>>
>> Chris - I turned off the radio, selected the port, quit Multimode, 
>> opened Multimode again, turned on the radio and no transmit on 
>> receive.  So far, so good - provided I hook everything and select the 
>> port before turning on the radio.  But, I then selected transmit mode 
>> and the radio stayed in receive.  Since I hadn't tried the transmit 
>> mode before, I don't know if there is something else I'm supposed to 
>> do to transmit.
>
> Nope, all you need to do is select the serial port, and then when you 
> select transmit mode in MultiMode, it asserts the DTR handshake line 
> on the serial port.

Chris - well, nothing happens.  Also, if I turn the radio on before 
opening Multimode, the radio goes into transmit when Multimode opens - 
even if Multimode is in idle.  Very strange.

Mike, KC4VG/0