On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Tim Ellison <[email protected]>wrote:
> Use the Kenwood TS-2000 setting in the digital mode program. This is good advice but may not go far enough. I have always had difficulty with Joe Taylor's programs getting them to reliably "speak" to the radio for control. Some of the key points that I discovered: 1. Com port numbers must be below 10, i.e. COM9 will work, COM10 will not. 2. You may have to try different radio selections, e.g. TS2000 vs. SDR1000, to find one that will work properly. 3. Sometimes doing PTT using CAT will work. Sometimes it doesn't. Setting up a separate virtual serial port just to do PTT using DTR or RTS always seems to work. 4. The JT programs use audio channel enumeration rather than audio channel name. So even if you selected "channel 1" last time you ran it and it still says "channel 1", the enumeration (non-obvious channel number) may have changed. The only solution is to re-select the audio channel. It may look like you are not changing anything but you are, in fact, re-selecting the proper channel enumeration. Confusing? Yes. Annoying? Yes. Broken? Yes. But that is the way it is. The safe thing to do is to re-select ALL parameters every time you start the program. And this goes for WSPR and JT65 too. One of the things I do is get everything working with fldigi first. Once everything works with fldigi then you know the PowerSDR, VAC, and your VSP program are all playing nicely together. Now you know that if you are having problems, the problem is with JT-whatever, not the rest of the programs. 73 and GL OM! -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 706 Flightline Drive Spring Branch, TX 78070 [email protected] +1.916.877.5067 (USA) _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software innovation and other technical SDR topics.
