TO all: I also have been looking this OMNI-VII situation.
I am using a program called "Free Serial Port Monitor". This program literally monitors what happens on the Serial Port.. and, with it, even though I do not have a TenTec OMNI-VII, I "can see" what is being sent out of the Serial Port .. I took a "known to work ok" program called "Omni-Rig Client" by VE3NEA -- and monitored the Serial Port for what that program sent out when I told it to QSY to a certain FREQuENCY. Sure enough - the VE3NEA program OUTPUT the FREQ I told it, as a FULLY converted BINARY number .. instead of looking at the FREQ as a 4-byte block, etc - like many of the other TYPICAL RIGS do ... So, the VE3NEA program "Client" sent out the proper info -- then I went to DXBASE and using MANY variations of the Radios.ini entry for the OMNI-VII (such as using the terms hex bcd asc bcdr) that are currently available for use in out Radios.ini file -- nothing treated the data from DXBASE as a TOTAL NUMBER - converted in the manner that the OMNI-VII is needing to see it received as. So, for the sake of the TenTec OMNI-VII users, since you can get the FREQ and MODE "from" the OMNI-VII into your logbook all ok -- you will have to stay with that and, just know that you CAN NOT click-on a spot (QSY) and expect your OMNI-VII to respond correctly. It just can't happen .. The one extra "routine" that would be needed is where the Radios.ini file can convert/handle the "clicked-on spots freq" into an output that would truely turn the FREQ into a FULL BINARY STRING. This Free Serial Port Monitor program helped me out very nicely when I wanted to "Fine-tune" the Radios.ini entry for my own TS-850S a/t Rig. Passing the above along as FYI. 73 Joe wa6axe _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=PID23384::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:NF_BR_sync:082009 ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
