Re: [dstar_digital] Re: ID800 data transmission.
On Sep 28, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Steve Bosshard wrote: Two other things, Rick: 1 - Echo on your local repeater works for testing. ... If you have a Gateway that has DPlus installed. (Non-Gateway equipped repeaters have nothing to do the echo feature with, and the stock Icom Gateway doesn't do echo. Echo from the repeater callsign and E in the eighth character field does work for bouncing both voice and low-speed data back at yourself for test purposes, but only if the above criteria are met.) Just a small overly-detailed correction for Steve's comment... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dstar_digital] Re: ID800 data transmission.
On Sep 28, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Rick wrote: Hi All I got it. Here is what I did. Since I am using a Mac I have a program called Parallels. I rebooted the Mac and restarted Windows. Before I started Windows I unplugged the programming cable and the USB converter. Once I restarted Windows I started the D-Chat program,plugged in the cable and and Windows saw it. Now it transmits. I also tried it with D-Rats and it worked fine. Not sure if the programming cable was interfering with the data cable port but I will check that later. For now I can play with the Data part of D- STAR Rick/WA6ES The only radios the programming cable works for sending low-speed data with are the HT's. (Well, I don't know about the 2820. I don't have that rig.) The programming cable for the ID-800H goes into the SPEAKER connection, the data cable goes into the mini-DIN on the back. (In Icom-friendly circles, this is known as a pain in the ass. In non-Icom friendly circles, this is known as crappy design.) Either way, you have to carry TWO cables to do stuff with an ID-800H. If you have a GPS that expects to be plugged into a DTE device (like a PC), gender benders and/or a null modem adapter or a THIRD cable must be utilized to send GPS direct into the rig, since the normal serial cable for the rig is wired up to go from a DTE device (PC) to the rig (DCE). (I have an old Garmin GPS V that the factory cable is wired to plug directly into a PC serial port (DTE), and I have a cable locally made that connects the mini-DIN on the ID-800H to a PC (DTE) also. The TX/ RX have to be rolled for the GPS to go direct to the rig. I leave an appropriate gender bender and null modem adapter on the GPS and I can just swap the cable coming off the rig between that connection and the back of a PC (or a PC USB serial adapter) with no other changes.) Checklist: In the Set menu, GPS must be OFF. In the Set menu, the data transmit mode must be Auto, not PTT. In the power-up holding Set menu, the Data Speed must be noted (you can select 4800 baud or 9600 baud - in my case, my old GPS is 4800, so I leave it on 4800 and adjust other software appropriately). Low speed data MUST be sent through the appropriate pins on the mini- DIN connector. I just went through this again tonight, scratching my head wondering why the rig wouldn't transmit, until I remembered I had programmed GPS ON via the programming software and the OTHER cable. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dstar_digital] Re: ID800 data transmission.
Crud, someone else mentioned it, but I forgot to put it on the checklist: BUSY indication MUST be extinguished on a quiet channel. (Squelch and/ or Attenuator-Squelch mode as needed to get it to stay off when no other stations are transmitting on-frequency, or the rig will refuse to transmit data in Auto transmit mode.) Nate WY0X On Sep 29, 2008, at 1:11 AM, Nate Duehr wrote: On Sep 28, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Rick wrote: Hi All I got it. Here is what I did. Since I am using a Mac I have a program called Parallels. I rebooted the Mac and restarted Windows. Before I started Windows I unplugged the programming cable and the USB converter. Once I restarted Windows I started the D-Chat program,plugged in the cable and and Windows saw it. Now it transmits. I also tried it with D-Rats and it worked fine. Not sure if the programming cable was interfering with the data cable port but I will check that later. For now I can play with the Data part of D- STAR Rick/WA6ES The only radios the programming cable works for sending low-speed data with are the HT's. (Well, I don't know about the 2820. I don't have that rig.) The programming cable for the ID-800H goes into the SPEAKER connection, the data cable goes into the mini-DIN on the back. (In Icom-friendly circles, this is known as a pain in the ass. In non-Icom friendly circles, this is known as crappy design.) Either way, you have to carry TWO cables to do stuff with an ID-800H. If you have a GPS that expects to be plugged into a DTE device (like a PC), gender benders and/or a null modem adapter or a THIRD cable must be utilized to send GPS direct into the rig, since the normal serial cable for the rig is wired up to go from a DTE device (PC) to the rig (DCE). (I have an old Garmin GPS V that the factory cable is wired to plug directly into a PC serial port (DTE), and I have a cable locally made that connects the mini-DIN on the ID-800H to a PC (DTE) also. The TX/RX have to be rolled for the GPS to go direct to the rig. I leave an appropriate gender bender and null modem adapter on the GPS and I can just swap the cable coming off the rig between that connection and the back of a PC (or a PC USB serial adapter) with no other changes.) Checklist: In the Set menu, GPS must be OFF. In the Set menu, the data transmit mode must be Auto, not PTT. In the power-up holding Set menu, the Data Speed must be noted (you can select 4800 baud or 9600 baud - in my case, my old GPS is 4800, so I leave it on 4800 and adjust other software appropriately). Low speed data MUST be sent through the appropriate pins on the mini- DIN connector. I just went through this again tonight, scratching my head wondering why the rig wouldn't transmit, until I remembered I had programmed GPS ON via the programming software and the OTHER cable. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
