[WT-support] Radio Control Problem

[Matthias Jelen]

Dear Olivier,

thank you for the hints. I did edit the wt.ini file. But as always, 
short before the contest, I didn´t have to much time to play around.
As I understood you actively poll the trx, so the CDE feature (i think 
it´s called like this) has to be switched off in the radio. I´ll try that.
I´ll also try to play around with the handshake settings. As far as I 
know, the OMNI VI needs a special cable *without* connections at the 
handshake pins. I first connected mine with a standard cable and got 
strange results, because TenTec used those pins for the connection of 
the "armchair operating tuning knob" or something else as usefull...

I´ll unpack my TRX and give it a try next weekend. I´ll let you know the 
results.

Hope you had fun & success with TM0HQ (nice signal in germany!),

73s,

Matthias, DK4YJ

> Halo Matthias,
>
>> I´m just setting up the station for the IARU HFWCC. I connected my 
>> TenTec OMNI VI+ to PC and chose the OMNI VI as radio 1.
>> The radio reacts to all commands from the PC. But the VFO - display 
>> and the
>> bandmap are not updated.
>>
>> The CDE is switched on in the radio. If I check with an other program 
>> (ct),
>> the bandmap is updated whenever I change the frequency on the radio.
>>
>> I´m using the Icom - Address 04 for the TenTec.
>
>
> Are you using the "IC-generic" entry in the Interface configuration 
> window, with the following line in the [Interfaces] section of your 
> WT.INI file:
>
> IcomGenericRadio1=04h
>
> F6IFY claims to get his Omni VI working that way.
>
> BTW, I'm afraid that Win-Test does not manage properly "handshaking" 
> on the serial port. This can be a problem with some of the Tentec 
> radios, if you using a straight through serial cable. This has been 
> reported at least by W0RSR.
>
> This should be fixed with a jumper between RTS and CTS (Pin 7 and 8) 
> on the radio side.
>
> 73,