Tom -- for some reason I did not get the note below -- apparently you've
done some more portmon trace of things. Do you have this setup working with
another radio? If so a portmon trace of the setup with the working radio
and one with the SDR may be of interest. I doubt the 0's instead of
spaces is the issue since it sounds like the box continues to issue IF
commands and PowerSDR stops responding.
If you have a portmon trace of good and bad setups I'd be happy to look @
'em. If that does not do it perhaps a version of PowerSDR with a little
debug stuff in the vicinity of the CAT code would be in order.
Regards,
Bill
At 04:04 PM 10/25/2005, Bob Tracy wrote:
Tom,
If the SteppIR is looking for spaces as padding for the frequency, then we
have a real problem. The Kenwood spec (used to develop the SDR-1000 CAT
parser) specifically requires any blank character in a frequency string to
be "0".
Let me know what you find.
Bob K5KDN
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:55 AM
To: Bill Tracey; Flex Radio
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] CAT Control
Bill,
After looking at the portcom.log file this morning, it looks as if the
IF; command is getting through every time but a response is only being
generated once. That response is a little different from the one that
actually drives the StrppIR box correctly in that it has zeros in place
of spaces. I don't know whether this makes a difference or not, but I
will pursue it and let you know.
73,
Tom W0IVJ
Bill Tracey wrote:
> The CAT comm port code should work with a physical port, at least it
> did at one point. Has been a while since I've run it in that mode.
>
> Do the SteppIR docs on using a CAT controlled radio say anything about
> flow control settings? I don't recall what flowcontrol we set on the
> port when we open it, I do see that we don't provide a way to set it
> (argh).
>
> The error you sent me in a private email makes it look a little like
> we failed to open the comm port - it seems we're attempting to close
> an already closed port and I know I've seen the code get into that
> error path when we failed on the initial open of the port. Is there
> any chance there's another program using COM1 -- maybe a PDA sync
> program or some such. Also check that the CW keyer is not set to use
> COM1.
>
> Next step is for you to download and install Portmon from
> http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Portmon.html and trace the
> failing scenario and send me the resulting trace file. That should
> give me some idea what is going in.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill (kd5tfd)
>
> At 02:05 PM 10/24/2005, Bob Tracy wrote:
>
>> Tom,
>>
>> Bill (KD5TFD) knows more about the serial port code than I do, maybe
>> he will
>> chime in with a real answer about whether or not it can be used in real
>> mode. I have no means of testing it other than with my SDR-1000.
>> Looking
>> at the code, I can't see any reason for it not to work in real mode.
>>
>> Meanwhile, the CAT tester does not interface with the serial port, it
>> interacts with the console software directly so it is no indication
>> that the
>> port is working. Secondly, you might try changing your ID selection
>> on the
>> CAT tab to something other than "SDR-1000". I suspect the StepIR
>> software
>> doesn't know anything about an SDR-1000. Try one of the Kenwood models.
>>
>> Bob K5KDN
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Thompson
>> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 11:15 AM
>> To: Flex Radio
>> Subject: [Flexradio] CAT Control
>>
>>
>> I want to have my SteppIR follow the frequency changes on my SDR-1000.
>> The SteppIR sends an IF; command in the Kenwood command set every
>> second. I have configured the CAT Control for COM 1, 4800 baud, no
>> parity, 8 data bits, and 1 stop bit. The ID is TS-2000 and the IF;
>> command produces the correct response in the test mode. Hyperterminal
>> is seeing the IF; command from the SteppIR box, but there is no response
>> from the SDR when I enable it. Are the COM ports on the CAT Control
>> real or just virtual.? If just virtual, what do I do to get the CAT
>> Control to connect to the real COM 1?
>>
>> Thanks, Tom W0IVJ
>>
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