[TenTec] Orion Serial port

[bobwhite at innercite.com]

Hank,
Did you get it finally?  The cable is a straight thru 9 pin male on one side and
female on the other.  I have been running my Alpha 99 on the second antenna jack
(as the auto tunner is on ant one) and have only amp key 2 enabled with no
problems here.  If you do any FSK you need to change the Mark high/low to the
selection which is not the default to make it work, well, at least I did.  Every
answer seems to be in the manual somewhere, but not always obvious.
Good Luck with your new radio,
Bob WO3B

Quoting HENRY PFIZENMAYER <pfizenmayer at worldnet.att.net>:

> All of a sudden I realized I have no serial cables and I find nothing in
> the
> manual telling me what sex the serial port is on the Orion.
> 
> Manual says "standard" DB9 serial cable. My computer is has the
> standard
> male DB9 serial port - what cable is needed to go to the Orion ?
> Straight
> thru /null modem or what ????
> 
> I just realized that in about 20 some years of using PC's I have never
> used
> anything but the parallel port !!!!
> 
> Thanks -- Hank K7HP
> 
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