Chris, Right click on the Lady Heather icon (not the KE5FX one). At the bottom of the list, click on "Properties". You will see a number of tabs. Click on the "Shortcut" tab. In the "Target" text box you should see "C:\Heather\heather.exe" if you installed LH on the C: drive. If that is the case just add " /6" for COM6, that is a space folowed by /6, to the end of the line. It should oook ike this: C:\Heather\heather.exe /6. Click 'OK". Now when you click on the LH icon it will use COM6.
I have assumed that your GPSDO and the COM port have the same baud, stop bits(s), and parity. Ken WA2LBI On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Chris Waldrup <kd4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded the latest version 4.00 beta of lady Heather on my win XP > laptop. > Installation creates two icons on my desktop. One says KE5FX TBolt > (Seattle USA) and has the lady Heather icon and the other has the icon and > simply says Lady Heather. > When I try and open the Lady Heather icon (not TBolt one) an error box > pops up and says Can't open com port:\\.\COM1 and will not open the > software. Opening the TBolt version icon instead will open the program. > > What did I do wrong? > Also the RS422 adapter shows up as com6 and I see in the instructions to > change a command line to /6 for com6 but I am not sure where to find the > command line. > > Thank you. > > Chris > > > On Sep 14, 2016, at 00:05, Mark Sims <hol...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > Yes. The device supports a SCPI command set. The next version of Lady > Heather supports it... well at least my modified Z3812A does. > > > > You probably don't need an RS422 converter. You can cobble an RS-232 > connection into the RS-422 port. This usually works, but some hardware > serial ports have voltage threshold issues reading data from the device > (the RS-422 signals don't swing as much as the RS-232 ones do). All my > USB-serial dongles work well, but I have had some issues with genuine > hardware serial ports. > > > > ------------ > > > >> If I build or buy a 422 to 232 converter can I expect to be able to > view the unit's data output with something like Lady Heather or Tboltmon? > Or at least see an output with Hyperterminal? > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.