At 02:37 PM 5/30/2006, Eric Wachsmann - FlexRadio wrote: >Dave, > >Upon initialization, the PowerSDR software polls up to COM20 to find out >what COM ports are available. It simply opens the port and makes sure >it gets a response before closing it. This should not affect any other >applications since if they were using one of the ports, PowerSDR would >just get an error and would not include that port. This is completely >independent of our USB to Parallel Adapter.
there is also a Windows API call (exposed as a VB method) that returns available ports. There's an example in one of the serial port example programs on MSDN. > > >Eric Wachsmann >FlexRadio Systems > >-----Original Message----- >From: Dave Kiefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 6:09 PM >To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Serial ports > >I have the SDR1K running on the parallel port of a WinXP box and all >works fine, >however when I start PowerSDR it seems to poll my serial ports which >are usb to serial converters, I have 3 of them the brand is Keyspan, >unless that port is already in use it then becomes locked out, >unusable to any of my programs, ie: other radio controls. >Is there any way around this? I had the Flex on the usb to parallel >converter, but it didn't like 40m at 500w, would drop out immediately. >So I went back to just the LPT1 and it works fine. >I took the Flex usb driver out of the windows driver directory and >thought >this would take care of the serial port lock out problem, but no luck. >The vcom serial driver works fine. > >I would also like to add to the list of wants for an upgrade is anti vox >and >a separate receive antenna port. > >Otherwise it's been fun so far. > > >73, >Dave >N4DWK >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: >/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060530/d2cad0e4/attachment.html > > >_______________________________________________ >FlexRadio mailing list >FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz >http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ >FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875 _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
