[Fourlanders] Icom 7300 and N1MM

[Bob Lear]

Well, trying to get things checked out for the contest.  On the 6m 
station, I can't make the 7300 talk to N1MM now.  Last contest, it was 
working and I haven't done anything or made any changes (except likely 
W10 update but no records).  I had notes of how I had been connected 
before including all the proper setting in the 7300 menus, CIV, etc. and 
all those settings were still the same.

One thing that's fishy is the COM ports.  it seems there are two COM3 
ports showing up under device manager and that's one of the error 
messages that N1MM gives when trying to connect and that may be the 
problem.  I can't remember if we needed to have virtual serial ports 
from VSP manager to be able to use both the remote CIV port and the USB 
port on the 7300.  But I think it was.  VSP mgr was installed on the 6m 
computer and had virtual ports 2 and 3 produced.  The computer does have 
a real 232 port COM1.  The Icom driver was showing up as COM3 which must 
have been the dupe with the virtual serial ports.

I uninstalled the Icom driver and VSP manager, downloaded Icom driver 
from web, did the installation and VSP manager reappeared after reboot 
and produced virtual ports 2 and 3 again, even though I had uninstalled 
it.  Like F....g magic!

Johnny had made this all work before.  N1MM was on a virtual com port 
for the Radio (COM3) via USB and the keying was done through one of my 
(Serial to 7-RTS, 4-DTR) breakout boxes.   COM1 is connected to an Icom 
CT-117 box and then to the remote jack on the 7300.   COM3 had the radio 
and COM1, no radio, only PTT on 7-RTS. This had worked fine before.  We 
also had the COM3 baud rate at 115600 to allow N1MM to display the 7300 
panadaptor screen.

Any help would be appreciated.  I just  hope 2m, 222 and 432 don't do 
something nasty to me also.  Those stations had been on EME since the 
Sept contest but I've had them on the nets but not using JT. That's next 
but I sure do need 6m working first.

Thanks, Bob