[ct-user] CAT interface between 1000MP and CT

[Roland A. Anders]

Dave Malley wrote:
> 
> I have had no trouble interfacing CT and the MP as long as the COMTSR
> settings are correct.  My MP is on COM 2 and the serial card's COM 2
> happens to use IRQ 9.  My COMTSR2 line in a .BAT file that executes CT
> looks like this:
> 
> COMTSR2 -B4800 -N82 -RTS -P2 -I9 -A2F8
> 
> The 2 stop bits are important per the Yaesu manual; possibly that may be
> your difficulty.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Dave, K1NYK
> 
> At 02:23 PM 11/15/97 +0200, Lehtimaki Kari wrote:
> >We have tested CT with three different 1000MPs
> >and have not been able to make them communicate
> >with CT.
> >
> >We have made the following observations:
> >
> >1) It seems that the cable is not a NULL-modem cable like
> >described in the manual of 1000mp, but a
> >straight PIN to PIN cable without any crossings, right?
> >At least with a straight cable we could see the CAT light blinking.
> >We do not use handshaking, should we?
> >
> >2) Resetting the 1000MP did not help. We still get the Yaesu timeout
> >messsage.
> >
> >3) We have no problems when testing the serial communications with TR
> >software.
> >
> >Any ideas what could be the problem?
> >
> >73 de Kari, OH2XX
> >
> >E-mail: oh2xx@sral.fi
> >
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Just for info, I used N81 with no problem -- Rol, K3RA

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