Joe, Thanks for your response. See my responses embedded below IN CAPS FOR YOU TO SEE.
Appreciate any thoughts. 73, Frank W4TG On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 7:51 AM Joseph DeVincentis <j...@ko8v.net> wrote: > I don't think I've seen an answer to this question. > > Is H/W flow control set for the port. That would explain it. I don't > recall if N1MM has flow control as an option or not when setting up the > port, but the port settings in the device manager do. > >>> I DON'T SEE ANYTHING IN N1MM ABOUT FLOW CONTROL. IN THE WIN10 PORT > SETTING I HAVE "DISABLE MODEM CTRL AT STARTUP CHECKED. WAS THERE SOMETHING > ASSOCIATED WITH FLOW CONTROL THAT i SHOULD DISABLE? > If that is not the answer, then we need to look elsewhere. > > Is there any other software besides N1MM that can possibly be using serial > ports? If so, don't bring them up and see if it goes away. Then bring > them up one by one to figure out who's doing it. > >>> BEFORE I START N1MM THERE IS NO PROBLEM, THAT IS THE tx LIGHT IS NOT FLASHING. MY BREAKOUT BOX HAS RXD, TXD DTR AND RTS RED. IF I START CWTYPE WHICH USES THE DTR LINE FOR CW, WHEN I SEND FROM THE KEYBOARD, THE RTS LIGHT TURNS GREEN AND THE DTR FLASHES, AND THE K3 TRANSMITS AS IT SHOULD. WHEN I START N1MM (EVEN WITH RTS = OFF AND DTR = OFF) THE TXD AND RXD FLASH GREEN ON THE BREAKOUT BOX AND THE RIG'S TX LIGHT FLASHES ON AND THE RECEIVE AUDIO PAUSES DURING THE FLASHES. IF I CLOSE N1MM, THEN THE RIG RETURNS TO NORMAL. IF I START THE K3 UTILITY PROGRAM, NOTHING HAPPENS UNTIL I TEST COMMUNICATIONS AND THEN THE TX FLASHES AS WITH N1MM (BUT ONLY ONE TIME). IF I GOT TO TERMINAL TAB THE RIG FLASHES UNTIL I LEAVE THAT MODE (AND THE RXD AND TXD LIGHTS ON THE BREAKOUT BOX FLASH) . SO I DON'T THINK IT IS A 'BAD ACTOR' - FOR SOME REASON SENDING AND RECEIVING DATA CAUSES THE TX LIGHT ON THE RIG TO FLASH. > > If that doesn't help, go here ( > https://www.eltima.com/products/serial-port-monitor/) and download the > monitor. IIRC, they have a 14 free trial. It will help you find out who > is messing with the serial port for the radio. > > > I can't tell you how many really bad actors (not just ham programs) that > are out there for serial ports. I have caught programs opening every port > up to 15 times to scan and see what ports are available rather than using > the registry as they should - dumb programmers. That drove my radio nuts > because it would mess with DTR/RTS. I have caught programs opening every > port and playing with modem control and constantly sending data to see what > responses it gets to find their devices and causing all sorts of havoc - > those programmers should be fired and sent to McDonalds to flip burgers - > that is all they are good for. Programs should never send data to devices > they don't know they own. > > I've gotten to the point of looking at firing up virtual machines so I can > control what hardware the bad actor programs can even see. I really wish > M$ would put ACLs in place for the COM ports. > > Then there's the whole serial enumerator idea (again someone's bad idea to > treat serial ports as plug and play) causing havoc with mice. Thank M$ and > FTDI for perpetuating that horrifically bad idea. > > Sorry for the soap box, but I was trying to give you an idea of just how > badly serial ports are treated in Windows by both M$ and the programmers > out there. > > 73, > Joe > > > > On Jul 10, 2021, at 14:01, Frank Stein <fst...@ieee.org> wrote: > > At Field Day this year, the K3 TX light started flashing when we loaded > N1MM to use RTS=PTT to send .wav files. This only occurs when RTS=PTT is > set on the rig. I thought it was a bug in N1MM but it also does this when > using N3FLP's logger and the flashing corresponds to the polling rate > (which N3FJP allows one to set). > > This is not a bug in either program since I get the same response when I > use the K3 Utility and select Terminal Tab. > > Why would polling the rig cause the TX light to flash and the receive audio > to momentarily drop? This is not a temporary initiation of the USB-RS-232 > connection. And more importantly, what setting is wrong that is causing > this? > > I have tried a different computer with a rs-232 port and I get the same > result. > > Thanks, > Frank > W4TG > fst...@ieee.org > > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
