[WT-support] Revisiting the Yaesu FT-990

[Rick Dougherty NQ4I]

Hi Bob...just tried to call you and I guess you have a new number...call my
cell and lets talk about your 990 problem..de Rick

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Robert Pack <nx5m at txcyber.com> wrote:

> 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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