[WriteLog] SIIG 4 Serial Port PCI Board and MMTTY

[Clay Melhorn]

Al K0AD,

As I said, I would report my findings back to you.

I tried Com 3 (S2 on the SIIG card dongle)

The Kenwood software wrote to the D-700A AOK.


Clay Melhorn N9IO Bonfield, IL
Webmaster:
KARS - Kankakee Area Radio Society - W9AZ http://www.w9az.com/
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> From: n9io at hotmail.com
> To: aldewey at aol.com; writelog at contesting.com
> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:10:36 -0500
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] SIIG 4 Serial Port PCI Board and MMTTY
> 
> 
> Hi Al K0AD,
> 
> Related to your problem.
> 
> I have three desktop computers with SIIG quartet rs-232 boards.
> 
> I have never had a failure with rig control or tnc's in kiss mode.
> 
> I am about to hook my D-700A aprs radio that I have in the house
> 
> to program it from one of the desktop SIIG ports, then run Winlink from the same.
> 
> I will try the programming tonight to see what happens and get back to you.
> 
> The only time I haved seen a pc reboot was while programming a D-700A
> 
> from my ASUS 10" notebook from a USB to RS-232 converter (a cheapy) there are only usb ports on the notebook.
> 
> The notebook rebooted when writing the program to the D-700A radio. UIView and rig control worked fine though.
> 
> My old P3 850mhz Sony Vaio laptop with a PCMPIA to 4 output rs-232 com port works perfectly when writing the same program to the D-700A.
> 
> 
> 
> As I said, I will try it tonight on the SIIG card and get back to you with the results.
> 
> 73'
> Clay Melhorn N9IO Bonfield, IL
> Webmaster:
> KARS - Kankakee Area Radio Society - W9AZ http://www.w9az.com/
> ARRL (Central Division) http://www.central.arrl.org/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > From: Aldewey at aol.com
> > Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:27:00 -0400
> > To: writelog at contesting.com
> > Subject: [WriteLog] SIIG 4 Serial Port PCI Board and MMTTY
> > 
> > I am having trouble getting my new SIIG PCI 4 Serial Port board to key FSK.
> > 
> > I have a PC with one built in Serial Port. The built in serial port (at 
> > COM 1) keys FSK no problem.
> > 
> > When I install the SIIG board, it adds COM 5, 6, 7, and 8.
> > 
> > I use COM 5 and 6 for Rig control with no problem. However, if I select 
> > COM 7 or 8 to key FSK in MMTTY, my PC crashes and immediately re-boots. I 
> > temporarily took the radio off of COM 5 and 6 and tried those for FSK - same 
> > result. No matter what port I chose on the SIIG board, selecting it to key 
> > FSK crashed my computer. It crashes as soon as I make the selection in RTTY
> > 
> > Operating System is XP.
> > 
> > Has anyone run into this issue? Any suggestions on what I might try?
> > 
> > 73,
> > 
> > Al, K0AD
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