[Pro2006] Cable for Trunker / Probe

[Len G. Carpenter]

radionut, you should be getting after earthink and ask them why your page does
not work with netscape 4.79, it says page not loaded but damn it does load the
back ground or is it just your webpage, something that you want done that
netscape won't let you do?

Also why not provide a direct link to the page you are talking about, I see no
link on that page to the cable, I know any webpage I have made is not perfect
but I do know that a person should not have to hunt through a site to find a
page or that when I post a page I should at least post the page I want a  person
to go to and not just post the site and tell people its there go find out where.

Cheers

Len


radionut wrote:

> There was a good discussion in this group about problems getting Trunker /
> E-Trunker and Treport to run from under Windows on some computers. It
> expanded to discuss the fact that if you have one serial port on your
> computer (like I do on my notebook) and you use a USB / Serial adapter that
> it (the adapter) will not work from DOS to run your tracking scanner.
>
> Power management issues were discussed but did not seem to cure the problem
> for everyone. These software programs do run much better from DOS as does
> the popular Probe scanner control software.
>
> I set out when I found some time to build a computer cable that would run
> both my Pro-2006 with Opto 456 board and my slicer on one cable. This would
> take care of these problems mentioned above and let Trunker / E-Trunker run
> from DOS and still control the tracking scanner. This would avoid the issue
> of having two computer cables, the usb adapter as well and let you run with
> one cable.
>
> I found some information on Bill's webpage  (http://www.ulster.net/~petrow/)
> about building just that kind of computer cable. I laid one out in a drawing
> and built it. The cable worked fine but I also run Probe software most of
> the time on that same scanner and it did not work with the built cable. I
> wanted to only have the one cable so I laid out and made a drawing of a
> cable that will work with both Trunker and with Probe using the same cable.
>
> I put some pictures and the information on a webpage for those of you who
> said you were having the same problem and trying to find a way to work
> around it.
>
> You can also get there from either the Probe Page (from the Scanner / SWL
> menu) or from The Work Bench page on my main website.
>
> http://miked2000.home.mindspring.com/radioindex.htm
>
> Hope this help some. If you have any questions or need more information let
> me know. I have built this cable and tested it with my notebook, it works
> fine. This idea can be used with other slicers / scanner set-ups as well.
>
> Mike
>
> For Scanner, Ham and SWL in the Omaha Metro Area
>
> http://www.qsl.net/ku4zd/scanning.html
>
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