Does SteppIR support your outdated OS? Talk to them to determine if there's an OS issue?
Bill 920-421-1172 ________________________________ From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net <elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Ray Albers <rayalb...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 7:47:10 PM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Subject: [Elecraft] K3 - Steppir interfacing So a couple of days ago I posted tale of woe, trying to get my newly acquired K3 to work with MixW - well, thanks to a few off line e-mails and some stumbling around, I got that working. Ditto, got N1MM+ working great. Next - how to get the K3 to play with my SteppIR vertical antenna controller. Worked fine with my ICOM 746PRO, where I had both MixW and SteppIR autotracking working fine with the radio. So: My computer is a Windows XP thing that I bought specifically because it has an actual RS232 (9 pin) serial interface, so no need to struggle with a serial to USB adapter. I made up a Y cable to interconnect K3, SteppIR controller and computer. Lots of Googling told me that the connections to SteppIR controller should be only DTR and Gnd, so I made sure that was how it was wired. Other posts point out that the CONFIG AutoInf should be set to Auto1 (one post said it should be set to Norm, so I tried it both ways). I even tried setting K3, SteppIR and computer to a slower data rate (9600) in case the 38k rate was too fast. No joy. Did the obvious newbie stuff like turning things on and off, plugging and unplugging cables - still NG. As I said, my logging program and N1MM are working just fine (one at a time, of course), and I could live without having the SteppIR do autotracking as I change bands/frequencies, but dagnabbit!!! it's the principle of the thing! I ought to be able to have everything working. Any suggestions would be appreciated. 73 Ray K2HYD ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to k9...@live.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
