Tom Thompson wrote: Bob and Bill: I have a few more clues on the SteppIR / SDR1000 interface issue. First of all, Bob, the zero fill is ok. I confirmed in my Kenwood TS-450S manual that any fill character except a semicolon is legitimate at least for this transceiver. I have an old TRS80-100 that I programmed up as a Kenwood simulator, and confirmed this. I had a level problem between the SteppIR box and the SDR1000 computer that I solved which allowed me to view the following: 1) The SDR will change the SteppIR box one time only when you open the application. 2) If you change the frequency while the SDR application is open, the SteppIR box will NOT follow. 3) If you change the frequency, close the application completely and reopen it the SteppIR box will go to the new frequency but again only that one time. 4) This is consistent with the portmon.log file which shows this to be the case. That is about all that I know how to do. I have a feeling that this bug might spill over into other applications besides the SteppIR app. I hope this has been helpful and thank you for your time. 73, Tom W0IVJ 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]]On 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]]On 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? 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