[TenTec] Pegasus Serial Port Control

[Carl Moreschi]

The "9" to enable keep alive has never worked.  Keep alive is enabled at
each power on.  You send "8" to disable it, but once disabled, it takes a
power off to turn it back on.

Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Bell Mountain
Hays, NC 28635
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Erbaugh" <mark at microenh.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 5:52 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Pegasus Serial Port Control


> I'm messing around writing a Linux control program (in Python) for my
> Pegasus.  It's been a while since I worked on my Windows/Delphi version.
>
> Anyways, it seems that whenever I send the Pegasus the command to enable
> keep alive (#9 <cr>), I get a Z <cr> response (invalid request). I don't
get
> the Z for disable keep alive (#8 <cr>) or any other # digit <cr> command.
> I've verified this, both from within my Python program (which seems to be
> mostly working) and from a simple serial port terminal program (GtkTerm).
>
> I am running version 1.201 (last) of the Pegasus firmware. I haven't yet
> determined whether the radio expects keep alives after sending the #9
> command.
>
> 73,
> Mark
>
>
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