[WT-support] Well, now it sends to 746Pro

[Matthias Jelen]

Hi Neil,

Icom uses just a single wire protocoll for cat. RTS and DTR are not 
wired to the radio. Therefore, changing RTS and DTS settings shouldn´t 
make any difference - and thats exactly what you are seeing.

"CI-V Transceive" is a feature Icom intruduced to control one radio with 
another. Therefore, every change you do at the front panel is sent to 
the serial port if it is enabled. As far as I know, this feature can be 
disabled or enabled in the menu of every Icom rig.

Normally, you would enable "CI-V transceive" on your rig and in 
Win-Test. Polling should be disabled, because the radio does send 
frequency information as soon as you rotate the VFO dial. In occasions 
where you can´t use "CI-V transceive" (it doesn´t work very well with 
older Icom rigs, e.g. the IC-751A), you´ll have the disable CI-V 
transceive and activate polling to query the radio for the new frequency 
every 200ms or so. The use of polling and CI-V Transceice at the same 
time doesn´t make any sence, at least to my knowoledge.

If your radio reacts to commands from WinTest, you got your 
communication settings ok. Make sure that CI-V transceive is checked in 
WinTest and enabled in your rig, and everything should work.

Hope that helps.

73s,

Matthias, DK4YJ

>But it doesn't seem to receive. Bob's suggestion of typing a frequency  
>seemed to get the thing working in at least one direction. I can now  
>type a frequency and the 746Pro will change to that frequency. But If  
>I change the frequency on the 746Pro the VFO setting in the Radio 1  
>window does not reflect that change, Weird thing now is I can get this  
>send-only to work in a few settings. Right now it is DTR ON, RTS OFF,  
>19,200, 8-N-1, CI-V ON, AUTO Poll. But it also seemed to work with  
>both DTR and CTS ON. Maybe, bearing in mind I have had this program  
>less than 24 hours, I just don't understand what it is supposed to do???
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