[WriteLog] Rig control on serial card?

[Don Hill AA5AU]

Rig control and FSK should work on just about any add-on PCI card using a 16550
UART or better.

The Byterunner is probably using a 16550 or 16950 so IT WILL WORK FOR FSK AND
RADIO CONTROL.

I'm not sure why FSK would not work on Com 4 or 5.  I just recently purchased
and installed a 
2 port Byterunner PCI card and it works fine as Com 4 and 5.

If FSK works fine on COM 1, leave it there.  Connect radio to Com 4, then add a
line in your
writelog.ini file under the [Ports] section that says this:

COM4:=9600,n,8,1,

I had to add this line in order to get rig control working on COM 4.  By the
way, I am using COM 5 for FSK with no problems and did not have to add a line
for COM 5.

73, Don AA5AU
 

-----Original Message-----
From: writelog-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:writelog-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Steve Forst
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 12:59 PM
To: WriteLog at contesting.com
Subject: [WriteLog] Rig control on serial card?

I've been using com 1 (motherboard com port) for rig control and running afsk
and cw on either com 4 or com 5, a byterunner add in card.

FSK will not work on either com 4 or 5, but works fine on com 1  I've seen
archive postings saying that add in cards don't always work FSK.

My problem is that with fsk working on com 1, I can't get rig control on either
com 4 or 5.  Is a byterunner pci card limited to afsk and cw only while fsk and
rig control need to be on a motherboard port??

Steve KW3A
    kw3a at snip.net


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