[Trlog] getting ready for SS

[Peter Grillo]

First, I want to thank George Fermin (K5TR) for helping me get TR loaded up
again.  Stupid me, after the lightning strike wiped out my family computer,
I bought a Compaq Presario without a floppy drive in it.  I didn't even
bother to look.  I just assumed all computers had an "a:" drive.  When I
pulled out my old Compaq Deskpro, it of course didn't have a CD rom drive.
I used it in the past for TR and it always worked great, but it needed the
software also (it's been 14 years since I operated contests from home!), so
George sent me a floppy.

 

Now that I have TR loaded on the Deskpro and tested my hookup in last
night's trial SS, I find two problems:

 

-          My choice for using the only DB25 port available on the Deskpro
is to connect it through my new FIF-232C interface to the CAT port in the
FT-1000.  It doesn't work.  I tried all combinations of commands for the
config file.  Can anyone help me resolve this problem?

-          The second problem is keying from the computer.  Since I have
only one DB-25 port, where do I hook up the computer keying signal?  If this
cannot be done, I can still do what I did last night (program my MFJ keyer
to do the dirty work).

 

Any advice at this short notice would be appreciated.I feel like I have
skipped a whole generation of technology.

 

73,

Pete

W0RTT

 

Ps:  what is the "unlimited" category?  U is new to me.