[Fourlanders] Fourlanders Digest, Vol 214, Issue 5

Mon Jan 11 14:19:02 EST 2021

Bob,
I had the same issue with COM3 not connecting to the K3S after an upgrade on W10.  Apparently a subsequent upgrade fixed it as its works now so make sure you have all the current upgrades to W10.

Dean Blair ~ Amateur Radio Call K2JB
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It's the Hobby preferred by rocket scientists. 

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Today's Topics:

  1. Icom 7300 and N1MM (Bob Lear)
  2. Re: Icom 7300 and N1MM (John Kludt)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 16:15:58 -0500
From: Bob Lear <w4zst at windstream.net>
To: FourLanders Contest Team <fourlanders at contesting.com>
Subject: [Fourlanders] Icom 7300 and N1MM
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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

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:06:35 -0800
From: John Kludt <johnnykludt at gmail.com>
To: Bob Lear <w4zst at windstream.net>
Cc: FourLanders Contest Team <fourlanders at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Fourlanders] Icom 7300 and N1MM
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Bob,

You do not need VSPManager or any external virtual serial port software for
that matter with the 7300.  The Icom driver creates two ports, one for data
and one for rig control and those are what you need to use.  Unless you
are using them for something else I would delete the ports created by
VSPManager.  There are other things you could do but this is probably the
easiest as you really don't need VSPManagaer created ports, at least fpr
the IC-7300 or the IC-9700.

Johnny

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 1:16 PM Bob Lear <w4zst at windstream.net> wrote:

> 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
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