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Re: [TenTec] Omni VI+ to computer issue

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VI+ to computer issue
From: "R. Eric Sluder via TenTec" <tentec@contesting.com>
Reply-to: "R. Eric Sluder" <resluder@yahoo.com>, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:54:46 -0400
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Well... I'm one of those crazy computer guys who's deals with computers all the 
time (albeit indirectly these days) and wished I knew half of what you know 
about RF Bob! Man I'd be smart!!!  So goes the world of technology that we live 
(and play) in.

73
Eric
W9WLW

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 17, 2014, at 10:44 PM, "Bob McGraw - K4TAX" <RMcGraw@Blomand.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> It is just one of those "computer things".
> 
> I'm setting up a computer, the software, the hardware and such in preparation 
> for Field Day operations.  This will entail several differentsoftware 
> applications being available, largely for individual operator preferences.  
> I've found when I choose one application and get things set up and the save 
> and close the file and then open another and do the same, when I go back to 
> the previous the parameters have changed. Grrrrr!   It is just one of those 
> dang "computer things".
> 
> I'm glad I'm an "RF guy" because those "1"s and "0"s drive me crazy.   No 
> comment on the crazy part.  I chalk it up the result of too much RF exposure 
> to the brain.
> 
> 
> 73
> Bob, K4TAX
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Allen" <jim.allen@longhornband.net>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VI+ to computer issue
> 
> 
>> The other day I wrote in about the problem I was having with the Omni VI+,
>> taking the place of the Omni VI Opt. 3, with respect to interfacing with
>> the computer running Win-EQF.
>> 
>> It was working before and now I have been getting error messages about
>> opening a COM port for the TNC.  The specific gripe was that both the TNC
>> and the Omni VI+ could not be on COM3.  OK!  Neither did it work on COM1,
>> 2, 4, or 5!
>> 
>> Today, after spending some time with the manual for the Omni VI+ and the
>> Win-EQF software on my knee, I realized I don't HAVE a TNC so why is it
>> selected "ON?"
>> 
>> I selected "OFF" and no more error messages.  Why, or how, it got changed
>> is a mystery.
>> 
>> Never mind!
>> 
>> 73 de W6OGC  Jim Allen
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