Bill wrote: >A friend of mine had a pair of IC781s and didn't have a place to keep them. >He asked if I would keep them for him. (No he doesn't have any more!) I've >been playing around with them and they work fine. After finding out that >they require an outboard interface to connect to the computer I have them >interfaced and working. > >One small irritation, it seems to take a fairly long time after I press >enter for my QSO to appear in DXBase. I found in my reading that the native >communication rate for ICOM is 1200 Baud. Since my FT1000MP is virtually >instantaneous, I assume that this may be the reason. The 781 is capable of >using other rates so I upped it to 4800 like the MP but it still seems slow. >I am using DXBase 2004 and a Pentium II 350 with Windows 98SE. > >I was just wondering if someone had run across this problem before or might >have a suggestion. These 781s have not had an easy life; they are the ones >we used down at 6D2X. My guess is that the technology was not quite there in >1990 when these radios were new. > >Bill, W5VX > > > Bill
When you say slow...how slow? I could test this here, but my 781 is in the hospital (power supply problem). The interface is definitely quite a bit slower than my 756ProII which I connect at 19200, and which responds quickly. But my recollection on the 781 is that it certainly does not take over 1 second to set or read the frequency. Are you seeing a lot longer delay? Ron N5IN
