Serial Ports:
I will chime in on the serial port chatter. I work with Intel and Mac based
motherboards every day. Alot of times- I have devices or comm programs
listening on the 'other' side of that serial port.
So - if you have a device connected to a serial port - where that device is
a type that polls his connection - or can come under the influence of
signals on that port - you can pretty well count on some 'oolies' as we
call them occurring when you restart your pc, etc.
I would bet the Orion will ignore signal influence on that port unless
configured to interact with it via its menus, etc.
73 de Ken
WI4CW
At 6/23/2004 17:58, you wrote:
Well Tom. Just think. If you have some RF on your serial cable and you're
sending cw at your usual 70 wpm, the Orion might interpet your dits and dahs
as ascii data. CQ de W4BQF might translate to "screw up radio" in Orion
speak.
Anyway. I wonder what would happen if one were to first, initilize the rig
then reload the firmware and finally, disconnect the serial cable and put it
away for another day. Maybe, just maybe, there's some PCs out there that are
spitting out some unwanted data from their serial ports in the Orion. Let's
find out.
Steve N4LQ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tommy" <aldermant@alltel.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion serial thought
> Hay..glad to see your awake!
>
> Good suggestion and will give that a try. I found an electronics shop in
> south Georgia (gasp!!) that has about four different sizes of split
ferrites
> and have bought a hand full and put on every connection to the Orion,
> including the RF coax cable. Didn't help anything, but it won't hurt
either.
> Think I will download v1.371 again and install it in the Orion and then
> remove the serial cable and see what happens. Tks for the suggestion.
>
> 73,
>
> Tom - W4BQF
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "n4lq" <n4lq@iglou.com>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:38 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] Orion serial thought
>
>
> > I just this thought. I wonder if possibly leaving the serial cable
hooked
> > up between the Orion and a PC could present problems? After all, when
the
> > PC is booted it does pulse one or more of the serial connector's leads.
> > Maybe by some chance that glitch screws up something in the rig's
> > firmware.
> > Something to try anyway.
> >
> > Steve N4LQ
> >
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