[Trlog] TS-850 polling problem

[Mirko Sibilja]

Hei Ville,

I think the culprit is polling rate (I experienced same issues with IC-751A
several years ago and latter with TS-850S as well, unless I increased both
polling rate and RESPONSE TIMEOUT parameters.

Beside that, try to run TR from pure DOS, although I have never met any
problems running TR from DOS window under Win98SE.

73 & GL de Mirko, S57AD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ville Hiilesmaa" <oh2mm at nettilinja.fi>
To: <trlog at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:20 AM
Subject: [Trlog] TS-850 polling problem


> Martti OH2BH was in my place yesterday to test his setup for the upcoming
ARRL SSB test.
> He'll operate in Belize as V31BH using a local's TS-850.
> (Pertti OH2PM operated ARRL CW as V31PP from the same place).
>
> We connected my Kenwood TS-850 to OH2BH's old IBM Thinkpad laptop running
Windows 95
> to see whether he'd be all set for the contest.
> The LOGCFG.DAT controls the radio's freq and mode thru COM1 port.
> No other port is used. TR version is 6.79
>
> The polling is OK for freq but seems to have a problem with mode.
>
> When on SSB mode, polling causes TRlog to jump to CW for about one second
or so.
> TRlog then returns to SSB by itself and stays there until next polling.
> If we work SSB and log the QSO just when polling goes CW, the QSO is
logged as a CW QSO!
> This happens even with:
> MODE = SSB
> MULTIPLE MODES = FALSE
> CW ENABLE = FALSE
> in the cfg file.
>
> When we put the radio on CW, TRlog stays on CW permanently without any
jumps to SSB.
>
> I understand TR simultaneously polls freq and mode.
> Can we tell TR to poll only frequency and no mode?
> Why the jumping problem is on SSB and not on CW?
>
> Any advice?
>
> 73,  Ville  OH2MM
>
>
>
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