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W5GA
#1 Posted : Wednesday, February 1, 2012 3:57:47 PM(UTC)
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Hi Dennis,
The TenTec Omni 6 driver doesn't work at all(it is the rig I'm using), although the IC-735 driver works...sort of. I had to turn on polling with the 735 driver to make it work, and it sometimes still times out. The timeout occurs when using set rig in spot log. I've installed the 029 update already.

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#2 Posted : Thursday, February 2, 2012 1:13:30 PM(UTC)
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Hi Doug:

Try the new Icom Basic driver (not legacy).

For the legacy drivers, the IC-735 and the Omni6 are just two menu entries for the same driver. Not sure why one would work and the other wouldn't.

Let me know.

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#3 Posted : Thursday, February 2, 2012 3:53:01 PM(UTC)
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OK, the new Icom basic driver seems to work ok, too...but I'm still getting timeouts with it.

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#4 Posted : Friday, February 3, 2012 12:04:59 PM(UTC)
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Ok, try changing stop bit settings.

Is there any particular operation you do that causes it to time out? Is there a USB=>RS232 adapter involved? If so, one you got from us or an FTDI-based one?

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#5 Posted : Friday, February 3, 2012 12:37:26 PM(UTC)
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There is an adapter involved - it's a Microham Micro keyer I've had for a number of years now (latest updates are in it). I don't know if it's FTDI or not. I'll try changing the stop bits and see if that helps.
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#6 Posted : Friday, February 3, 2012 1:30:56 PM(UTC)
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You can look around in the device manager and see what drivers they are using. I know years back we had a lot of problems with Microham. Lately not so much.

What version of Windows are you using?

What baud rate are you using? Maybe slower.

Are you doing anything in particular when it times out?

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#7 Posted : Saturday, February 4, 2012 7:35:05 PM(UTC)
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The computer is XP SP3 with all updates. I slowed the baud rate down to 1200, no change. I'll try stop bits tomorrow. The timeouts seem to happen most often when I do a band change via the radio. Sometimes happens when trying to set the rig via the spot log.

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#8 Posted : Monday, February 6, 2012 8:08:01 AM(UTC)
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OK, had to give up on the Icom basic driver. Change bands, timeout. Change freq, timeout. change anything at all, timeout. Hit the key, timeout. This after several iterations of baud rate and stop bit changes. I about wore my poor little mouse out resetting the radio interface.
I went back to the 735 driver, which didn't eliminate the problem, but makes it far, far less frequent. OBTW, didn't do this in LOGic 8 with the same computer and OS.
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