[TenTec] 3rd Party Omni-6 Firmware?

[Richard B Drake]

As far as a transmit indicator is concerned, what's the matter
with the meter set on FWD power?

If you are talking about keying PTT via the RS-232 port, that
feature is present, see "Set/Clear Transmit Mode" on page 5-11 of
the manual for details. If you are talking about CW keying, forget
it, RS-232 at any speed is not fast enough to do that. You need to
use one of the hand shaking lines (DTR or RTS) through a simple
keying circuit on a separate serial port to the key jack to do
that. I doubt if you can use the ones on the rig control port
because I imagine (not sure) that they are already being used as
RS-232 hand shake lines.

Thus, I see no reason for the modifications you suggest.

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73, Rich - W3ZJ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tentec@contesting.com
> [mailto:owner-tentec@contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Eric Rosenberg
> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 10:11 AM
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] 3rd Party Omni-6 Firmware?
>
>
>
> While I thoroughly enjoy my Omni-6 Plus, there are some missing
> features in the firmware that would make it even
> better.  While I
> haven't spoken with them on the subject, it appears
> that Ten Tec
> doesn't seem inclined to make any changes.
>
> Has anyone considered re-working the firmware a la Jack
> Ghiel for the
> Omni-6 Plus?
>
> The two features I would like to see added: visual
> indication of
> transmitting (Ghiel added a  "star" on the display),
> and the ability to
> key the radio on the interface (RS-232) line.
>
> Anyone else interested?  What would it take to convince
> TT to add these
> features?
>
> Comments?
>
> Eric W3DQ
> Washington, DC
>
>
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