[LOGic] Loss of serial comms with rig when tx on CW

[mel martin]

We have a similar problem with older Icoms if you spin the dial...

Trouble is if Logic fails to communicate it drops the connection...

There are better ways of doing it.

I've used 7 different logging programs here, and Logic is the only one that
has this difficulty.

I think it's time Dennis took a look at his COM error routines... Shutting
down communications on a time out seems not to be the way to go. BTW, I've
had no problems with the newer (faster) Icoms...

As far as I know, Logic does retry before giving up.

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> [mailto:logic-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bill W5WVO
> Sent: July 7, 2006 19:49
> To: [LOGic]
> Subject: [LOGic] Loss of serial comms with rig when tx on CW
> 
> 
> This is probably one of those "It's the software" / "No, it's 
> the hardware" kind of things... But I really do think it's 
> the hardware, and if anyone else concurs, I'll post something 
> on the TS-2000 group.
> 
> I'm using LOGic 7 to communicate with my Kenwood TS-2000 for 
> routine logging purposes (mode and frequency). I'm using the 
> 38,400 baud setting, 1 stop bit, polling the rig every 100 ms 
> (fastest setting). This works fine except for when I'm 
> transmitting on CW, using the rig's internal keyer. In this 
> mode, I will usually get a "unable to communicate with with 
> rig" message from LOGic. My guess is that the TS-2000 
> processor is too busy (due to internal keyer?) to service the 
> serial port every time it interrupts, and LOGic bails out on it.
> 
> Question: Does anyone know if LOGic errors out when even ONE 
> serial exchange is missed -- in other words, no retries? I 
> don't want to decrease the polling frequency or baud rate -- 
> but if my scenario is right, that probably wouldn't solve the 
> problem anyway, just make it somewhat less frequent. 
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this problem when sending on CW? 
> If so, with what rig?
> 
> Bill W5WVO
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