I use a pair of Kenwood TS-850's. The interface to my computer is the N6TR -- ultra-simplistic design. It works great, but DX4WIN does from time-to-time generate a radio timeout message. If I spin the dial hard or I'm just cruising up and down the band, I can without difficulty timeout the radio. I have experimented with the poll rate and found 1000ms seems to works better than the default of 5000ms -- but the timeouts still occur. The interface works very well with other programs -- so I have eliminated this from the equation.
I would be interested in knowing from this community and especially from other Kenwood 850 owners (who might have seen similar radio timeouts), if you have experimented and changed the baud rate for the com port that hosts the radio interface. In looking at my settings the com port (in the Windows Control Panel System settings) is set to 9600 yet the radio operates at the Kenwood default of 4800. Is this a problem? Further if you have experienced radio timeouts (specifically with a Kenwood radio), what if anything have you tried and did it work? 73 de Paul, VE7AVV StoneyGround Station -|<*><*>||<*><*>||<*><*>||<*><*>||<*><*>||<*><*>||<*><*>||<*><*>|- "All email from this address is checked by Norton AntiVirus 2002"
