[TenTec] Orion II CAT Control Issue

Carl Moreschi n4py3 at earthlink.net
Tue Feb 6 18:45:07 EST 2018


If you were running my N4PY Orion program, WSJT would communicate with 
my N4PY Orion program and all responses would be very fast via a virtual 
serial cable connection.

Carl Moreschi N4PY
58 Hogwood Rd
Louisburg, NC 27549
www.n4py.com

On 2/6/2018 5:57 PM, Wes Attaway (N5WA) wrote:
> This post concerns a problem with my O-II and its response to WSJT-X
> software polling the O-II.  I recently started playing around with FT8 and
> thus the use of WSJT-X.  I can't find a WSJT-X reflector, but if there is
> one then I will be happy to start posting there.
>
>
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> The problem is that when transmitting on FT8 I will sometimes get an error
> message that will stop the transmission cycle.  This is completely random.
> It may happen once or twice in an hour or twice in a minute or two, and then
> no errors for another hour or two.
>
>
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> I am using a microKeyer II for radio control and Jozef, one of the microHam
> engineers analyzed their logs and found that the O-II is sometimes slow to
> respond to the WSJTX polling queries and WSJTX will generate an error
> message in certain circumstances.  We are wondering if this is something
> that is just inherent in the now older design of the O-II or whether there
> is some way to work around this.
>
>
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> This isn't a show-stopper, but is definitely a nuisance when it happens.
> All I have to do is to be quick on the trigger and click on "ignore" in the
> WSJTX warning message and then click to restart the transmission.  If I am
> quick enough the other station still gets the message.
>
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> I would be happy to hear from anyone with some experience with this, and/or
> whether there is a better list to pose this question in.
>
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