Charles,
By you probably saw the reflector e-mail from N0IJ that is an
excellent discussion of getting the Omni-6 running correctly with NA.
I highly recommend reading his note - however to answer your comments:
1) KM9P's problem with the Omni-6 had nothing to do with RF. The VFO
would jump to oddball frequencies, or change - things that either
indicate a software problem or digital intermittants. Bill has not
been the only one with these problems, judging by stuff I've seen both
on this, and the CQ-Contest reflectors.
2) In your cable, I would remove the connection between DB9F-4 and
DB9M-6 that you mention. I don't have the stuff from Warren in front
of me, but I *THINK* this is one of the pins that Ten-Tec usurped for
non-RS232 stuff.
3) Hooking the RTS/CTS together at the computer will not change
anything in NA. In NA10, the code that controls the serial ports was
written by myself, so I *KNOW* how it works. When a radio is
connected to a port, we force the unused port outputs to particular
states so people can use RS-232 interfaces that obtain their DC power
from these pins (I have a W1GEE interface for my FT-1000D that works
this way).
While I have everyone's attention, some notes to all NA users:
- Please put your e-mail address at the end of any message to the
reflector. In N5UL's case, I had to answer his message via the entire
reflector because he omitted his e-mail address.
Here are some e-mail addresses for K8CC:
work: dap14@chrysler.com
home: k8cc@ix.netcom.com
Please don't contact me concerning sales, replacement disks, or the NA
BBS - contact K3LR. However, I am glad to answer technical questions
(within reason) and I welcome your comments and ideas how to improve
NA. Generally, I am pretty good about answering all e-mail received.
73, Dave/K8CC
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