On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Joe <[email protected]> wrote: > I cannot connect that cable to the PC without a gender change adapter. Is > that what a 'null cable or adapter is"?
No. A null modem cable or adapter swaps transmit and receive pins (and sometimes handshake lines); it also happens to change the gender, for standard connections. A gender changer is a 1-to-1 mapping from one gender to another. A straight gender changer is rarely (never?) needed with correctly designed equipment. (The Kenwood D700, for example, has the wrong gender on the DB9 computer interface and _does_ need a gender changer.) If you happen to have a couple of female DB9 connectors lying around, you can make one with three wires. connect pin 2 of one connector to pin 3 of the other, and vice versa; then connect pin 5 to pin 5 (this is the signal ground). > I will be using the T2-301 as a tracker only in my vehicle. Yep, in that case you want to run otwinconfig to set your callsign, transmit rate, path, etc. Since you're running a 710 and UI-View you'll probably be familiar with much of the data on the config screen already. -Jason kg4wsv
