Hi Joe, On 6/22/05, Joe - AB1DO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phil, > > Uninstalled 114 and installed 222 per your excellent instructions and at all > works a dream. For the moment I just installed 1 pair, com4 and com5. Just > as an aside, it might be worth noting that the inf file can be edited with > any text editor, e.g. notepad.
Yes, I forgot to mention anything about editors. Any text file editor will work. Also, now that you have build 222 installed you can uninstall the driver, edit the inf file, and then resinstall the driver without rebooting the computer. > With this build enabling multiple pairs of com ports you've got my neurons > firing: does having multiple com port pairs mean that I can have multiple > s/w programs communicating with PowerSDR, e.g. HRD and MixW running > simultaneously on different com port pairs? Now that would be a neat trick, > difficult if not impossible to realize with hardware rigs (if I'm not > mistaken, but I'm no expert). I also assume that this means that the CAT > setup of PowerSDR will need to be expanded to enable the multiple pairs from > its side? Yes, PowerSDR would have to support multiple com ports for this to work. Another way would be adding a TCPListener to PowerSDR that will allow you to connect with a socket and send/rx CAT commands. A separate TCPClient program then would connect the TCP side to the virtual com port side and on to the third party programs such as logging programs or HRD. The TCPListener in PowerSDR could accept multiple connections this way. If you wanted to write your own logging or radio control program you would dispose of the virtual serial ports and just connect on a socket. > Boy, screen real estate is going to become a serious premium if all this > materializes. Monitors are forever coming down in price, but anyone got a > heads-up on INEXPENSIVE graphics cards able to drive multiple monitors? > > Just dreaming away...Thanks again, > Joe > 73 de Phil N8VB
