[ct-user] FT1000MP radio control problem

[Jim White, K4OJ]

a fly in the ointment, eh?

imho radio timeout usually occurs when the computers cannot keep up with the
baud rate and slowing things down a notch can cure - i.e. going to 4800 from
9600...mebbe your shack computers are norunning another software program and
the system has reached that point where it says too much I can't take it
anymore!

I have never been able to get and entire network of computers to be fully
talking and it is the radio interface that has been sacrificed...

Jim, K4OJ


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Shohet" <kq2m@mags.net>
To: <1000mp@qth.net>; <ct-user@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 7:39 AM
Subject: [ct-user] FT1000MP radio control problem


>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Weird problem just developed with BOTH FT1000MP's.
>
> I am using 2 FT1000MP's on 2 computers with CT ver 9.53.  When I used this
> setup in WPXCW, CT, BOTH radios and both computers talked to each other
> flawlessly.
>
> Now, six weeks later, the same 2 FT1000MP's can't talk to the computers.
> BOTH radios give me a "radio timeout" message.  For control purposes, I
went
> back into the WPXCW logs with NO settings changed.  What worked perfectly
6
> six weeks ago, does not work now.  Nothing in the setup has changed nor
have
> any cables been moved.
>
> The radios can talk to each other using the Alt G ("Gab") function, but
> whenever I try to change freq. using the keyboard I get the "radio
timeout"
> message.  Likewise, when I change bands with the radio, the computer does
> not note the freq. change.
>
> Several weeks ago I was banging something on the operating table and I
> wondered whether or not this might have affected the 'MP's - but there
> appear to be no ill effects other than the radios/computers can't talk
with
> each other.
>
> Any thoughts on what the problem might be and how to diagnose it?
>
> If one radio didn't talk to the computer I might think it was a damaged
> radio/computer interface, but BOTH radios?
>
> Your help and thoughts please.
>
> Tnx & 73
>
> Bob KQ2M
>
>
>
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