I'm looking for guidance on how to set up NA for two-radio use in SSB.
Late last year I acquired one of the Top Ten "DX Doubler" SO2R boxes, a
product I can heartily recommend. I configured it as described in the
manual. It requires that the two radio control with antenna switching (not
with DVK) be configured in NA. I got things set up and it works perfectly
on CW.
I fooled around in WPX SSB this weekend and discovered that for some reason
the computer insisted on asserting LPT Pin 16 high whether NA was running
or not. Whatever function that pin has is apparently supposed to be logic
high by default, at least on my logging computer. It does the same thing in
either DOS 6.2 or Win98.
Since Pin 16 is used for PTT, the result was that every time I put the Top
Ten box TX control in the Auto position for computer control the PTT line
was pulled down and the selected radio went into transmit. I tried setting
up another dummy contest file for WPX CW; as soon as NA started up Pin 16
went low and stayed that way until it the CW keying was activated.
Re-opening my file from ARRL CW also resulted in proper operation. Both the
10.54 and 10.55 versions of NA.EXE acted the same way.
Have I missed something in the configuration, or is there a bug in the
program, or is it SUPPOSED to act that way and I'm just failing to
understand what's going on? I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has set
up his station for full NA two-radio control to help sort this problem out.
And regarding the beam heading operation, I too would like the headings to
be displayed in the mult window before the station is logged.
73...
Randy W8FN
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