[Trlog] CAT Problems

[Pete Smith]

At 12:50 AM 11/11/03 -0500, you wrote:
>I made up a DB9 serial cable with the send/rcv reversed on one connector.
>Level conversion not required so its just three wires to each connector.
>BIOS looks ok, logcfg shows serial 2 for the serial port for radio one.
>
>Tried my serial mouse in com2 works ok
>checked cable and pin numbers everything looks fine.
>Thought there might be a programming feature with the mk-V associated with
>CAT feature, nothing found.
>Any ideas would be appreciated as I have about run out.

I just use a standard serial cable with a gender changer.  Works fine.  I'm 
not sure whether this cable has the pin reversal you mentioned, though 
logically it should.

Anyhow, this would be a substitution test to see whether there's something 
wonky with the CAT port.  Do you have another program that controls the radio?


73, Pete N4ZR
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