Tell him to try turning off Transceive mode in the ICOM (it's somewhere in one of the radio menus). This mode causes the transceiver to "babble" every time the dial is turned. It can cause problems similar to what he is seeing.
73 - Jim AD1C On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Larry Gauthier (K8UT) <k...@charter.net> wrote: > A new user of DX4Win, W8TE, is trying to get his new CI-V cable [the popular > one from eBay] working properly with the latest rev of DX4Win. His 7800 is > firmware rev v210, and he's running the CI-V setting at 4800 baud with the > transceive setting = "off". He has the Contest Mode set for "$$" so his > Notes field should contain the 7800 frequency - when it works properly. > About 30% of his QSOs record the right freq, but the other 70% show the > frequency as "471,417". If he opens DX4Win's ">Radio > Set Frequency" > window, he can see it jumping between accurately reading the VFO and this > weird "471,417" number. (He upgraded from DX4Win 7.05 to 7.06 to 7.07... all > of which showed similar results). Other features of the CI-V interface, like > jumping to a double-clicked packet spot with the correct frequency and mode, > are working correctly. > > His contesting software, N1MM, always reads the VFO correctly. > > Is there anyone out there with a v210 7800 who can shed some light on this > for us? > > -larry > K8UT -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us "Let Not Mankind Bogart Love" - Willie Nelson _______________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
