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Re: [TenTec] New TenTec Software and N4PY Issue

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] New TenTec Software and N4PY Issue
From: David McClafferty <ve1adh@yahoo.ca>
Reply-to: ve1adh@accesswave.ca, tentec@contesting.com
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 19:18:54 -0500 (EST)
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Did you do the firmware upgrade as well? I ran the new
GUI with the old firmware and it seems to be OK.

Dave, VE1ADH

 --- Duane Grotophorst <n9dg@yahoo.com> wrote: > 
> Forgot to mention, - it is not an issue of ini file
> "contamination" or some other kind of file
> "versionitis". I run the all the N4PY sessions in
> their own directories (and also sepparate memory
> spaces). I put the new TT 2.0 install into its own
> sepparate and brand new directory as well, it is
> using
> the default pegasus.ini file that the install
> program
> would have put there.
> 
> Duane
> N9DG   
> 
> 
> --- Duane Grotophorst <n9dg@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > There is something definitly amiss with the new
> 2.0
> > Ten Tec Pegasus GUI program. I haven't been able
> to
> > make a lot of sense out of what it is doing
> exactly 
> > or why. I also had one instance where my N4PY
> > program
> > running on com8 keyed the transmitter as soon as I
> > started the Ten Tec 2.0 GUI, haven't been able
> > reproduce that one at all.
> > 
> > There are however two other behaviors that I do
> see
> > with some regularity:
> > 
> > 1. The VFO frequency spontaneously tunes up at
> > around
> > 1 step/sec for up to 20 steps or so. It will do
> this
> > for awhile and then stop again all by itself. To
> > then
> > strat doing it again at some later point in time.
> > 
> > 2. The frequency display dithers between
> yellow/red
> > but the radio does not actually go into TX though.
> > Again it will stop all by istelf after doing this
> > for
> > a few seconds.
> > 
> > I've been trying to identify a pattern of some
> kind
> > but so far can't. At one point it seemed to be
> > linked
> > to other com port activity such as modem traffic
> (my
> > modem is on USB com11) but there is no consistency
> > there either. I do have a lot of stuff running on
> my
> > computer much of the time 
> > 
> > What I have not seen is Carl's software
> missbehaving
> > when it is running by itself (or even multiple
> > sessions of it). Also I have not seen any problem
> > with
> > Carl's software connecting to a radio where TT's
> 2.0
> > was just running and not power cycling the radio. 
> > 
> > OS here is Win2K, the radio RS232 connections are
> on
> > ports 3 through 8, which are on 2 sepparate SIIG
> PCI
> > serial cards. The IRQ for coms 3-6 is 16, and coms
> > 7-10 is on 19, IRQ 16 is shared with my two video
> > cards. I do see the same issues though regardless
> of
> > which IRQ is being used, so I can't really see how
> > this has anything to do with IRQ's.
> > 
> > Duane
> > N9DG
> > 
> > > From: "J. D." <duffyb01@fuse.net>
> > > To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> > > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 4:27 PM
> > > Subject: [TenTec] New TenTec Software and N4PY
> > Issue
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I downloaded the new TenTec Pegasus 32 bit
> > software
> > > to play with and
> > > installed it on my "ham only" computer.  Nothing
> > > exciting, but I did notice
> > > that the frequency display acted very jumpy and
> > > would only change digits as
> > > the seconds ticked away on the clock display. 
> The
> > > analog bar would also
> > > jump around and may go up as I dialed the freq
> > down
> > > and vice versa.
> > > 
> > > So I uninstalled the new TenTec software.  Now,
> > the
> > > N4PY software does
> > > almost the same thing.  The freq display only
> > > changes as the clock display
> > > seconds change.  However, the analog bar
> > underneath
> > > does not have the same
> > > problems as the new TT software had.
> > > 
> > > Any one else have these issues?  Can't
> understand
> > > why the TT installation
> > > would effect the N4PY installation.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Duffy
> > > www.wb8nut.com
> > 
> > 
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