[Ham-Mac] KPC-9612 and KISS-Followup

[Steve Muncy]

>
>> Well, I tried that about six times and it didn't work. Tried again 
>> several more times after your note and it finally took. Ya know, 
>> sometimes you just want to pick these things up and shake them! 
>> Thanks for the quick response.... I'm going to try this a few more 
>> times and see if I can get it to work consistently.
>

I've got it working now, and evidently the major problem was just my 
impatience. Using ZTerm to send the 'escapekiss.bin' file (as text), 
the transfer window would just sit there and show nothing. But after 
over a minute, I would get an error message. Getting the transfer error 
message actually meant it worked. I just didn't expect it to take as 
long as it took and had aborted  the process too early. So, it now  
works consistently albeit slowly -- but works.

I tried Paul Williamson's (KB5MU) suggestions as alternatives - using 
goSerial and the 'cat' command in terminal, but was not successful with 
either method -- and I was very patient and  waited  a long time to see 
if they worked.

Anyway - ZTerm works  well for this and I've set up a macro to put it 
into kiss mode to try to copy AO-51 (Echo) telemetry next chance i  
get.

Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions  - both privately and on the 
list.

- 73 -

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