Rick,
By coincidence, I am going to visit a Icom 746 Pro this Friday afternoon. A
ham that I talk to on 2 meters has been having all kinds of trouble getting
his rig to key with several different software applications. I plan on
setting up WinDRM for him and should get a better idea on what the issues
are.
I see you have things set for 9600 baud but I found this statement:
"The Icom IC-746 uses 19200 Baud rate, 8 Data bits, None Parity, 1 Stop
bits. " Did you try it with different baud rates?
Are you using a Rigblaster pro, plus, or plug and play ? I found this
reference, not sure if it helps.
*RIGblaster plug & play Operational Details:*
*CW keying is done by setting DTR high on the emulated serial port. *
*Standard PTT is done by setting RTS high on the emulated serial port.
The Icom IC-746 and similar radios use pin 6 on the 7 pin DIN ACC(2) jack
for PTT on the 2 meter band. Since the adapter only connects to the 8 pin
DIN ACC(1) jack, the RIGblaster plug & play cannot use standard PTT keying
for the 2 meter band. One solution is to use CAT control for transmit and
receive with the built-in CI-V interface*
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On 1/3/07, r_lwesterfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Andy,
The WIN DRM program seems to run and I have downloaded the melp.dllfile plus the
"tune" wav file. But it does not key the rig using the same
comm 3 line or Rigblaster settings that MixW successfully uses. Win DRM
will make the "digital sound" using the "TX Voice" button when the settings
are Comm 3 and RTS is High on FAC but it does not key the rig. I have also
tried Vox and Auto on the Rigblaster which made no difference.
I do use the Rig Talk device which may explain my success with MixW and
my Icom 746. PTT for MixW is set to CAT which I cannot do (I presume) with
Win DRM. The other settings in MixW which may pertain are:
9600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, RTS = PTT and DTR = CW.
I had similar issues with PC-ALE which I was never able to adequately
solve to enable scanning or keying using that program and eventually gave up
on it. But it was a different computer and I have now upgraded to a Windows
XP machine that is fairly modern with plenty of RAM but only one sound
card. All of this should work and I know it must be a setting somewhere
that I am missing.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Rick – KH2DF/W5
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*From:* digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*On Behalf Of *Andrew O'Brien
*Sent:* Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:29 PM
*To:* digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* [digitalradio] Re: windrm
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com <digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com>,
"r_lwesterfield"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yes, I did this as well but I cannot get the rig to key. I am using
Comm 3
> which is what MixW uses with ease and I have tried every conceivable
PTT
> checkbox combination under "SETUP". What am I missing???
>
>
Rick, WinDRM just requires one PPT port, that's it. It should work teh
same as your MixW setting. What RTS/DTR setting did you try ?
Andy K3UK
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