Eric, What seems to be happening is that the ports are not being closed after being polled. I know what ports I am using on this computer as I went to great lengths in setting them up so they would all work together properly. ie: 1 radio HF; 1 VHF, keyboard CW to both, etc. these are other non flex radios.
Here is the question, does the program fully release the unused ports after polling, in my case it doesn't seem so, if the port is in use no problem, but how do you make a port for cw be in use when you start up unless you are sending at that moment, not too likely, then that radio goes key down and won't quit until PowerSDR is closed. Or is there a way to tell it to ignore or not poll certain ports? 73, Dave N4DWK 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. > > > > > > 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/20060531/29a82ff6/attachment.html _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
