John, What needs to "make sense" is that you can only have one driver on an RS-232 line. It is not a matter of "making sense", but is a technical requirement. If you have two devices trying to send stuff at the same time, the result at the receiving end is garbage. In "HamSpeak" we call that QRM.
73, Don W3FPR On 1/7/2012 5:44 PM, ke4d wrote: > Got it! It didn't make sense to me but once I inserted the "S13" cable from > the K2 to the Y cable, removed the TXD from the SteppIr DB9 and changed the > jumper from pin 8 to pin 9 per SteppIR and Don, it all worked. Whew! Ok, > only the S13 cable didn't make sense but it works so I guess it doesn't have > to make sense to me. > > John KE4D > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K2-interface-with-steppIR-and-computer-tp7161936p7162825.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft 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
