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Re: [TenTec] N4PY Orion Control Program Version 1.12 Released

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] N4PY Orion Control Program Version 1.12 Released
From: Dudley Hurry <jhurry@austin.rr.com>
Reply-to: tentec@contesting.com
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:28:41 -0600
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Tom has a good point, since I have been using a USB2.0 serial to USB adapter, the lack has been non-existent. Right now I am running with 6 serial to USB adapters to my 1.8 ghz computer.

73's
Dudley


At 07:35 PM 11/9/2004 -0500, Tommy wrote:
Just a small observation...the speed of the CPU has very little, if anything to do with the speed of the serial port. If your need faster I/O speeds, it's probably best to look at using USB 2.0 ports instead of serial ports.

Tom - W4BQF

----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Giacobello" <k2xx@swva.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] N4PY Orion Control Program Version 1.12 Released


Jerome, I've observed this same problem with the O(rion control software. It's sometimes difficult to fine tune a station because one tends to overtune or overshoot the signal. Carl has said that it's because of the speed bewteen the radio and the computer serial port. I recently upgraded from a 450 MHz to a 2.2 GHz machine and there was little, if any, improvement, suggesting that Carl's assessment is probably accurate.

73, Joe

jerome schatten wrote:

Hmmm... sounds like a computer rather than the control software problem. I've used the Pegasus software on four different computers from a P100 up to a P4/3gig machine and never noticed that kind of a lag.

I have noticed, using Task Manager, that large frequency excursions tend to be the most cpu resource intensive --
sometimes up to 80% for a split second, but I never could correlate that with a visible/audible lag. It's interesting that HRD behaves exactly the same with a large change in vfo frequency.


I would bet that a 486 might show the kind of behaviour you describe.

Best,
Jerome - VA7VV
----- Original Message ----- From: "Vince Santis" <vsantis@earthlink.net>
To: <roncasa@verizon.net>; <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:18 PM
Subject: RE: [TenTec] N4PY Orion Control Program Version 1.12 Released


Hi Ron,

Unless you are using an Orion what you want is the Pegasus software from
N4PY. I use it and it works fine with one exception. Because of a port
speed issue tuning the radio lags the screen display on the computer.
However, if yu are into cw, the keyboard keying is great and also the
ability to scan a range of frequencies.

73,

Vince Santis, N1VS
Winsted, CT 06098


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