[TRLog] Radio interface problem

[ALAN KAUL]

I'm using FT-817 with computer interface to an IBM Thinkpad-600E with
Windows ME... serial port one interface, etc., and it works, EXCEPT....

1) I load MS-DOS from the start/programs/accessories prompt ... and
SOMETIMES the TR-log freezes completely.
So I click the X in the upper right corner, answer yes to the "lose data"
question and shut the program.

Then I RESTART the computer and if I am lucky, the second time the computer
will load TR and operate it properly.

2) I couldn't make the interface read FREQ or change bands----then all of a
sudden it "started" working properly.  I don't know why, it just did in the
middle of S and P operations.....

I'm using TR 6.60 or 6.62 (left over from the ARRL DX Contest in FEB).  I
tried to load ALL669 and ALL670, but I couldn't make either one work!!!
I've gotten a lot of advice on how to try to make them work---but I won't
have a chance to try for a few days.

73 de alan

W6RCL/7 ... operating the IARU from a hotel room, 20 stories above and a few
miles east of the Great Salt Lake


----- Original Message -----
From: "James P. Cassidy" <107770.3462@compuserve.com>
To: "TRLOG Reflector" <trlog@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 7:11 AM
Subject: [TRLog] Radio interface problem


> Has anyone had recent problems with interfacing the FT817 radio?  Mine
> worked in the past and this weekend does not.
> I think the problem may be that since it worked before I have upgraded the
> version.  Only using ver 6.62 currently and it does some very strange
> things. I can't recall the version that worked in the past.
>
> Reverts to Non ? instead of the usual 20CW.  The radio never does receive
> the info nor feeds any to the program.  Freq. readout on the program has
> something like 814120.0 kHz.
>
> TNX 73 Jim KI7Y
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