[Ham-Mac] Help Needed With Setting Up Multimode

[R M Greenwood]

On Jan 31, 2004, at 9:35 PM, Chris Smolinski wrote:

>> 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?

If that is the case (I don't know at this point), are there other 
Multimode settings I should be changing? Or will Multimode not work if 
the TX data line is used to control the rig?

Mike, KC4VG/0