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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: "Steve Baron - KB3MM" <SteveBaron@StarLinX.com>
Reply-to: Steve Baron - KB3MM <SteveBaron@StarLinX.com>,tentec@contesting.com
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 02:13:44 -0000
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Where do they get IR 16 from ?
Standard numbering is 0 thru 15.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Grotophorst" <n9dg@yahoo.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 23:00
Subject: Re: [TenTec] New TenTec Software and N4PY Issue


> 
> 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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