[ct-user] CT sensing/polling the radio

[William Bennett]

Hi Brian,
Thanks for the info. I was not trying to solve the problem of sharing the com
port. I was using the rtty program only to drive the TNC, on a different com
port, so no conflict. But you're right - if I also want the rtty software to
talk to the radio the solution would be to stop/start each program as part of
the mode change. And that would not be such a big deal, so I will probably do
it rather than give up the radio control when running rtty.

As for my other problem with CT not sensing the radio when running under w/95,
see next append. I got other help with that and have solved the problem.

73, GL in FD,
Bill N7DZ

alsopb@vance.net wrote:

> Bill,
>
> I tried very hard with Win 3.1 to do what you want to do.  Problem is
> that the two programs, at least the way I had them set up both wanted to
> use the same COM port to control the radio (and TNC if you are using
> packett).   Switching between them would sometimes lock up the COM port
> so it would not receive data.
>
> I don't understand why you expected WIN95 to resolve such a problem.
> Swapping between programs doesn't necessarily resolve the conflict that
> both want the same port.
>
> Here is what I did do to get them to work in a semi-useful way.
> I set up ICONs for both of them in Windows and PIF files for them as
> well.  Then I simply enter the one I want.  Exit it and click on the
> other application.   The exiting of the program must release the com
> port and the new program reinitializes them upon startup.
>
> At least one doesn't have to exit WINDOWS or reboot.    I'm talking
> about CT V9.27 and RTTY v 3.1 .   Maybe this would work fine with
> version 9.37 of CT.   Try it.   By the way I always use the full screen
> mode for each program.  In my experience windowing either results is
> hanging the computer at time or the refusal of the program to accept
> data.
> You could trash WIN95 and run W3.1 if WIN95 is giving you so much
> difficulty.
>
> 73 de Brian/K3KO
>
> IMHO opinion CT version 9.x is still quite buggy (at least from
> observing all the problems guys are reporting) .  I'm not sure that you
> loose anything by using 9.27.  I continue to use 9.27 in contests with
> no problems.
> Vance Net Inc
> End Of Message

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