[TenTec] N4PY Orion Control Program Version 1.12 Released

[Tommy]

Just a small observation...the speed of the CPU has very little, if 
anything to do with the speed of the serial port. If your need 
faster I/O speeds, it's probably best to look at using USB 2.0 ports 
instead of serial ports.

Tom - W4BQF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Giacobello" <k2xx at swva.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] N4PY Orion Control Program Version 1.12 
Released


> Jerome, I've observed this same problem with the O(rion control 
> software.  It's sometimes difficult to fine tune a station because 
> one tends to overtune or overshoot the signal.  Carl has said that 
> it's because of the speed bewteen the radio and the computer 
> serial port.  I recently upgraded from a 450 MHz to a 2.2 GHz 
> machine and there was little, if any, improvement, suggesting that 
> Carl's assessment is probably accurate.
>
> 73, Joe
>
> jerome schatten wrote:
>
>> Hmmm... sounds like a computer rather than the control software 
>> problem. I've used the Pegasus software on four different 
>> computers from a P100 up to a P4/3gig machine and never noticed 
>> that kind of a lag.
>>
>> I have noticed, using Task Manager, that large frequency 
>> excursions tend to be the most cpu resource intensive --  
>> sometimes up to 80% for a split second, but I never could 
>> correlate that with a visible/audible lag. It's interesting that 
>> HRD behaves exactly the same with a large change in vfo 
>> frequency.
>>
>> I would bet that a 486 might show the kind of behaviour you 
>> describe.
>>
>> Best,
>> Jerome - VA7VV
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vince Santis" 
>> <vsantis at earthlink.net>
>> To: <roncasa at verizon.net>; <tentec at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:18 PM
>> Subject: RE: [TenTec] N4PY Orion Control Program Version 1.12 
>> Released
>>
>>
>>> Hi Ron,
>>>
>>> Unless you are using an Orion what you want is the Pegasus 
>>> software from
>>> N4PY. I use it and it works fine with one exception. Because of 
>>> a port
>>> speed issue tuning the radio lags the screen display on the 
>>> computer.
>>> However, if yu are into cw, the keyboard keying is great and 
>>> also the
>>> ability to scan a range of frequencies.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>> Vince Santis, N1VS
>>> Winsted, CT 06098
>>>
>>>
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