[Ham-Mac] Help Needed With Setting Up Multimode

[Chris Smolinski]

>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.

It sounds like your interface is not using the handshake line to 
control the rig, perhaps the TX data line?

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
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