[WT-support] Revisiting the Yaesu FT-990

[Robert Pack]

What I have discovered is this:
For some odd reason, last night it started working after I played around 
with bandmap properties and the bandplan.  But this morning it was back to 
the same old thing......clicking on a spot sent the radio to LSB.  In the 
bandplan it is set to only 160 CW 1800.0-1999.9.
What I have found to be working correctly this morning is selecting FT1000. 
This works but the vfo's are not being read so there is no tracking in the 
bandmap.  I had to change one setting on the FT1000 default.  RTS Pin 7 set 
to "always on" brought things to life.  I seem to be able to click on 
bandmap data and the radio does exactly what it is supposed to do....stay on 
CW and go to the spot frequency.

Bob NX5M

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Pack" <nx5m at txcyber.com>
To: <support at win-test.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [WT-support] Revisiting the Yaesu FT-990


>I have tried the radio (I still have 2 of them, both with 1.3 rom) with
> version 4 with even worse results.  But for now I am not concerned about
> what it is doing with V4 (clicking on a 160 spot sent the radio to a
> different band...wow).
> I have tried everything and whenever I click on a 160 spot (CW) the radio
> goes to the correct frequency but changes to LSB.  I even tried setting up
> the bandplan where it was 1800-2000 CW and nothing for SSB or RTTY.  That
> did not seems to do any good either.  Something is telling the radio to go
> to LSB in the case....but what?
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Franta Bendl" <dj0zy at i--i.de>
> To: <support at win-test.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 12:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [WT-support] Revisiting the Yaesu FT-990
>
>
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> I tried to connect FT990 to Wintest some years ago. There is a serious
>> problem
>> because the older firmware of FT990 is not capable to do this job - the
>> interface is blocked for more seconds because the FT990 sends a lot of
>> redundant data to the Wintest. As far as I can remember the wrong 
>> firmware
>> is
>> < 1.2 and the right 1.3. If you have the older one there is no hope.
>>
>> 73 de Franta/DJ0ZY
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 05:36:58 Robert Pack wrote:
>>> First of all, I never did get a real fix for a 990 issue.  Although I
>>> have
>>> V4 I have been using V3 since some of the computers I use are still the
>>> older Win 98 machines and V4 will not work. Anyway, I am setting up for
>>> the
>>> ARRL 160 contest this coming weekend and noticed that clicking on a spot
>>> sends the radio into LSB.........every time.   I want to use the 990
>>> because the receiver seems to be better than any of the other radios I
>>> have
>>> here.
>>>
>>> The 990 has a din connector for the CAT interface so it is not a plug 
>>> and
>>> play type deal such as found on the 1000 series (and others). I may have
>>> missed some discussion on this over the past year so if anyone has the
>>> answer on this problem I certainly would appreciate some input.
>>>
>>> Thanks es 73,
>>> Bob NX5M
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