There seem to be a few issues with the T2-135. We have installed several Peet U2100 weather stations with he Alinco DR-135T and U2100 systems in the past month and I am running to a new installation this morning so I have to be quick.
Make sure your cable to the weather station is good by verifying the data is coming out of the port. A poorly constructed cable or crimped connector will provide erroneous results in relation to the interval. We found this by simply wiggling the phone connecter on the side of the U2100 when data was intermittent and it started working. This is critical as a poor connection will yield erratic data interval output. We have one system that simply transmits bad data from the radio occasionally throughout the day. One reason is the code does not check to make sure the data is valid before transmission. We see non-printable characters in the output weather packet from time to time. This was more prevalent when the U2100 was in the Data Logging mode, but the Complete Record mode resolved many problems with bad data being transmitted. I wish the weather data could be programmed for interval separate from the position reports. Having a position report followed by a weather packet containing the same position report is redundant and adds extra undesirable loading to the network. Here are the settings from one site that doubles as a digi and it works quite well. WX data is transmitted on the INTERVAL setting consistently. I am not intending to be critical by any means as the DR-135T and T2-135 is an awesome combination. There are just a few kinks. I modified the code from the WIKI link and verified a few conditions by reading a file containing WX data and observing the results and have become familiar with what needs to be changed. The most important settings are ABAUD/BBAUD and AMODE/BMODE for the WX settings. 1WIREWX OFF ABAUD 2400 ALIAS 1:WIDE 2:AL 3:TEMP 4:SAR ALTITUDE OFF AMODE AUTO AUTOBAUD OFF AUTOSAVE OFF BBAUD 2400 BMODE AUTO CDINVERT OFF CLIMB OFF CNTRESET OFF COMMENT /KN4CI COMPRESS OFF COUNTER OFF CUSTSYM OFF DAO OFF DIGI ON DIGIID 1:ON 2:ON 3:ON 4:ON 5:ON 6:ON 7:ON 8:ON DUPETIME 30 EXTSQL OFF FAHRENHT OFF GPSDATA OFF HBAUD 1200 HEADERLN OFF HOPLIMIT 1:2 2:2 3:2 4:2 5:0 6:0 7:0 8:0 INTERVAL 444 LVINHIBIT 0 MAXRANGE 0 MONITOR OFF MYCALL ESTLAW NICE 0 OUTPUT1 OFF POSITION 3434.02N 08710.40W POWER ON PREEMPT 1:OFF 2:OFF 3:OFF 4:OFF 5:OFF 6:OFF 7:OFF 8:OFF PTTINPUT OFF PATH AL2-2 QUIET 10 REARM 250 RETRIES 5 RETRYTIME 7 REQALL OFF RING OFF SHAREDPTT OFF SLOT 16 SMARTBCON OFF SWDCD ON STATUS 0 SYMBOL /_ TELEMETRY OFF TEMP OFF TEMPADJ 0 TIMEHMS OFF TIMESLOT ON TIMESTAMP OFF TXDELAY 30 TXLEVEL 142 TXNOFIX OFF TXONCHG OFF USEALIAS 1:ON 2:ON 3:ON 4:ON 5:OFF 6:OFF 7:OFF 8:OFF VELOCITY OFF VOLTAGE OFF WAYPOINTS OFF WPTLEN 9 Here are some tactical station calls you can check on FINDU that use the DR-135T / T2-135 / Peet U2100 combo: ESTLAW MTHOPE LAWEMA HATSCH HUBBRD Look for SPKSCH to come on line in a few hours. HUBBRD is the problem child with occasional bad data being transmitted. We need to investigate this problem a little closer to see what component is allowing it to happen. 73's, Tim - N8DEU Decatur, Alabama, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "vk2boz" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 2:49 AM Subject: [tracker2] Re: T2-301 WX help Hi all Yes it is set in COMPLETE MODE but still only Tx when it wishes to. Not often. Cant work out whats not going on. For a simple plug & play it is NOT. Dose the T2-301 have to have special firmware? (I think not) Has anyone got a T2-301 with a Peet Bros Wx staion working the way it should be??? I'd be glad to see your settings. I know this is a simple thing stopping me from doing this but cant see it. Cris VK2BOZ --- In [email protected], Scott Miller <sc...@...> wrote: > > Is the unit set to APRS mode, maybe? It should be in COMPLETE mode. > > Scott > > vk2boz wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Scott > > Yeh i know was just, well i dont know. I have got it to work but it only > > TX weather data when it wants to. WHY would this be? I thought it would > > TX Wx data at the same time the T2-301 Txed (ie 5min intervals). > > > > When i got the Wx station hooked up to the computer running the Wx > > software at the same time i can see when the Wx data is being sent to > > the software. Now steady stream of data shouldnt stop but it does. Could > > this be why its not Txing data every 5 mins? > > > > Happy Easter to all > > Cris VK2BOZ > > > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:tracker2%40yahoogroups.com>, > > Scott Miller <scott@> wrote: > > > > > > 1WIREWX should be OFF. > > > > > > vk2boz wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks Scott > > > > > > > > The baud rate is 19200 not 2400 & 1wirewx is now ON > > > > > > > > Thaks again > > > > Cris VK2BOZ > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:tracker2%40yahoogroups.com> > > <mailto:tracker2%40yahoogroups.com>, > > > > Scott Miller <scott@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > You should have the Ultimeter in 'complete' mode, the T2 in > > 'auto' mode, > > > > > and the baud rates must match. > > > > > > > > > > The SETFREQ read-back is a known bug, and it'll be fixed > > eventually. > > > > > > > > > > Scott > > > > > > > > > > vk2boz wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi guys > > > > > > I have the T2-301 and a peet bros 100 Ultimeter WX staion and > > would > > > > like > > > > > > to know has anyone here got the same setup. I can't get the WX > > info to > > > > > > the T2-301. What am i missing. I've tried all the output modes > > and > > > > still > > > > > > cant get it to work. > > > > > > > > > > > > BTW. SETPOWER & SETFREQ dont show in the help file but they are > > there. > > > > > > SETFREQ returns a differant RX freq but it still works as to > > the freq > > > > > > that you enter. maybe they will fix it in an update. > > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Cris VK2BOZ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
