I have a OMNI 6 which NA works great with no problems
kudos Dave Tnx!
KC9TV
Jonesy
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From: <00tlzivney@bsuvc.bsu.edu>
To: <na-user@contesting.com>; <cq-contest@contesting.com>;
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Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 2:57 PM
Subject: [na-user] NA vs CT using OMNI 6+
>
> I have had a lot of little nagging problems getting CT9.45 and other
versions
> to do what I want. First, let me say that CT works fine with the OMNI 6+.
> No gripes whatsoever.
>
> However, I am having difficulty with CT trying to do two radios. My
second
> radio is a Corsair, so no computer control. Thus, I want to have CT
> control the antenna switching via a TopTen Yaesu box on LPT1. This will
> force me to keep the logging on the correct band for the non-computer
> compliant radio. This works ok. The problem is when I want to use
> LPT2 to control a second TopTen box for the second radio. LPT2 has
> the control info for the TopTen box, but it switches between radio 1 and
> radio 2!! Thus, the antenna for radio two is switched to the wrong band
> when I am on radio 1.
>
> Also, the 2-radio bit, pin 14, does not appear to work on LPT2, altho
> it works fine on LPT1. The problem is, that with the TopTen box on LPT1
> to control the antenna, I can't get pin 14 so that I can switch the
> keying from radio 1 to radio 2. The keying bit is active on both
> LPT1 & LPT2 at all times (they key in parallel, so to speak).
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) I read some things on the old NA reflector posting that worry me some
> about NA and the OMNI VI+. Is it all squared away now? I use the
> remote 301 knob, too.
>
> 2) Does NA let me use two TopTen boxes on LPT1 & LPT2? Can I key
> radio 1 off of LPT1 and radio 2 off of LPT2 from the Top Ten boxes
> directly or do I still need to access pin 14 to cobble together some
> switching doodad?
>
> 3) Does anyone make a turnkey 2 radio control box?
>
> Thanks -
>
> 4) How similar is NA to CT? I couldn't find the DATAM site from
> contesting.com/DATOM. I have read some of the TR manual and don't
> think I'll live long enough to get up to speed on it.
>
> Terry Zivney, N4TZ/9
>
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