[Premium-Rx] 2050 problems

[Rodney Bunt]

Walter,

This is my understanding of the IF on the HF-2050.

The unit with the preselector, has a RS-232 interface option.

All other units only have the RS-422 IF option.

Rodney
VK2KTZ


--- Walter Salmaniw <salmaniw at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 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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