Hi everyone I am wondering if anyone else is having radio interface problems with ICOM radios or indeed other radios under win2k (or possibly XP??)
the symptoms are that DXBASE will occasionally (every 10 to 50 radio commands) report that the radio is not responding even though often when you clear the error message the radio will then respond if clicking on a spot. Errors occur when logging and when clicking on spots or making spots I am using DXB 2003 although I also had this problem with DXB2002. I have tried the following things to try to make the problem go away, nothing has cleared it up so far various com port speeds from 1200 Baud up 2 different interfaces (com's CT-17 and a home made level converter) Hardware handshaking on and off (no difference & none expected as the icom serial interface is a 2 wire standard with no handshaking available) Driver X disabled (this helped reduce the occurrence of errors ) 3 different computers (all running win2k ) same on all machines (even on 1GHZ P4 laptop) 2 different radios 756PRO and 756PRO2 Turning on and off CI-V transceve on the radio WIN2k, WIN2k SP1, WIn2kSP2, WIn2kSP3 normal motherboard comp ports, USB com ports and a special High speed PCI com port board It's not RF in the shack as it happens on all band and often during RX It is important to note that I have had no problems whatsoever with either radio on any computer I tired with writelog (I can log entire 48 hr contests without a single com port/ radio error) or logEQF (dos, running in a dos compatibility box) or even Airmail (which just uses the port to set radio frequencies. DXB2003 is the only program I run that has any problems. If anyone else has these problems have you found anything that helped? 73 Brendan EI6IZ
