[TenTec] Re: Orion Operation and Functionality

[Martin Ewing]

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> From:
> "Carl Moreschi" <n4py at earthlink.net>
> Date:
> Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:47:11 -0000
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>Which serial commands do not work?  
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>Carl Moreschi N4PY
>Franklinton, NC
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I haven't done an exhaustive check on 1.371, but my "favorite" command 
tests are

*TT0 - Tuner off
*TT1 - Tuner on
*TTT - Initiate tuner cycle

In 1.369, if you used these in some ways, you would hang the front panel 
and make interesting patterns on the LCD.  I reported the issue to 
ditsnbits. In 1.371, the situation is improved some.  I don't see any 
hangups. The tuner gets enabled/disabled, but *TTT does not initiate a 
cycle.  There are still significant troubles with the front panel after 
using these commands.  The "tuned" indicator does not come on even after 
I cycle the tuner manually.  If I go to "menus", I see that the LCD 
buffer is corrupted. I need to cycle power to get things back to normal.

[The LCD buffer corruption is somewhat random. I don't always see it, 
but the tuner never cycles under software control, and the "tuned" 
indicator never comes back, except by changing bands or power reset.  
Yes, I tried master resets.]

It would be useful to go through the command list and verify the 
performance of each command (along with timing info), but it would take 
some work.  You might think TT would take care of that. ;-)

-Martin, AA6E