[Premium-Rx] 2050 problems

[Walter Salmaniw]

A fascinating turn of events, and I do hope that there might be a 
solution.  A background:  Nick Hall-Patch lent me a Startech RS 432 
convertor to use until I purchased my own.  I received it 
yesterday.  Identical to his, and shown to work when John Fisher was here 
in February.  Now after much consternation, I found out that the 7030+ DIN 
cable was broken, and hence all the strange error messages from ERGO.  I 
resoldered this one, and no trouble since.  It works fine on my older 
Toshiba Pentium II 266 MHz laptop on the Serial port, COM 1.   I'm hoping 
to have both the 7030 and the 2050 running at the same time.  Since I only 
have one serial port, I tried a RS 232 to USB connector.  No joy here at 
all.  The green light is on, and the control panel says that it's 
functioning as Com 2.  When I attempt to use it with the 2050, the red tx 
light momentarily flickers and I then get the error message that it is 
unable to connect.  I'm not able to test the 7030 until I pick up a female 
to female DB9 adaptor.  Now here's a very strange problem.  I have 3 2050s 
in the shack.  My main unit is a newer 2050 with 100 memories and the 
preselector option.  Earlier in the evening I had it working with ERGO4 on 
Com 1.  Later after more fiddling trying to get COM 2 to work, no 
joy.  What I don't understand is this:  I switched the wire over to another 
2050, and it works fine.  Switching to the third unit, again no 
joy.  Therefore 2/3 units are not accepting the ERGO 4 commands.  Whereas 
the one that does (it happens to be the one with the power supply 
externalized by Jan a couple years back, and rack mounted, so it's not 
going anywhere easily.  I was hoping to have both the 7030 and 2050 up and 
running for a DXpedition to Greyland this weekend.  Ideas?  Solutions?  I'm 
can't believe that 2/3 of my units have a defective remote input.  What 
gives?????

Walter (Volodya) Salmaniw, MD
    Victoria, BC, Canada.

DXing the world using AOR 7030+/ERGO, Rockwell-Collins HF-2050, Racal 1792, 
JRC NRD 535D, Kenwood R5000, Collins R390A, Sony 2010, and Sony 1000T with 
the following antennae:  T2FD, K9AY, 60 meter horizontal loop, 
Eavesdropper, 25 meter dipole, 25 MHz vertical, and random wire.   All 
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