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General discussion forum / RRC & Prosistel "D" working .. at last

« on: 2012-02-12, 07:36:55 »

Hi All,

I'm using COM2 with the following params on both boxes :

Mode 5 (user def term)
9600,8,1,OFF
Terminator : 0D

With the Prosistel Software, I also had to increase the "Rotor timeout"  to 10 seconds.
Although the "read parameter" function seems to work ok, do NOT try to write parameters to the control box with this software via remote, as it will mess up the whole settings and you win a trip to the hill..

Just wanted to share my experience, as it was not that straight forward to get things working.

Gianni
IN3ASW

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General discussion forum / ERC Rotator controller via USB COM

« on: 2011-11-19, 08:18:01 »

After having the Easy Rotator Controller working perfectly on RRC COM2 with the Yaesu 1000SDX , I wanted to have it on the RR1258 USB COM2 instead.
Having tried all the combinations, the only (strange) one that works for me is :

Control RRC                                                                                         Radio RRC

Com2 Mode = 5 (user defined terminator)                                          Com2 Mode = 3 (char-timeout)
4800,N81                                                                                            4800,N81   
Com2 Terminator = 0d                                                                        Com2 Terminator = 0d
Use USB as com port = Yes

Only issue , using any of the 4 direction buttons |<<  < > >>|  will start rotation, but won't stop anymore until the mechanical
end-stop CW or CCW, while mouse click-and point works fine.

Any feedback out there please ?
73's
 
Gianni

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General discussion forum / Issues after FW upgrade to 2.46 (FSK)

« on: 2011-11-05, 10:58:13 »

Hi All,
having said that :
- I've got both FSK and CW working with 2.41
- did no hardware/cabling/software mods on both Radio & Control site

after upgrading both RRC's to 2.46 and SetupManager to 1.12, neither CW nor FSK worked.

CW was easily fixed, enabling "PTT activated by Keyer" on RRC Radio

On FSK, I had PTT keying the TS-480 ok, but only a continuous tone coming out

I read the manual carefully 
I re-checked the MMTTY settings in order to eliminate all EXTFSK references
I read the manual more carefully

No way .. PTT was keying, but always a fixed tone came out.. ( yes, I was monitoring my HF signal, not the speaker  )

To make a long story (night) short, I got it finally working, switching OUT2 on "Baudot/Inv" instead of OUT1 (see my previous post http://www.remoterig.com/forum/index.php?topic=819.msg3973#msg3973 )

Sure I'm using Pin3 on Radio I/O , as before

I read the manual more more carefully 

from the V2.41 User Manual :

Radio RRC /I/O connector:

Pin no
I/O (RJ45)
1 IN1, active low (CW-Keyer right-paddle)
2 IN2, active low (CW-Keyer left-paddle)
3 OUT1, open collector
4 IN0, active low (only available at Control-RRC)
5 OUT0 open collector
6 OUT2 open collector
7 8V OUT (max 100mA)
8 GND

I read the NEW (Release A16 2011-nov-01) manual 

Pin no
I/O (RJ45)
1 IN1, active low (CW-Keyer right-paddle)
2 IN2, active low (CW-Keyer left-paddle)
3 OUT2, open collector (parallell with PAD Tip at Radio-RRC)
4 IN0, active low (only available at Control-RRC)
5 OUT0 open collector
6 OUT1 open collector (parallell with PAD Ring at Radio-RRC)
7 8V OUT (max 100mA)
8 GND

Clear now, OUT1 and OUT2 swapped ... 
(come on guys ... it was 3:00AM  )

So, READ the NEW manual CAREFULLY !

I particularly appreciate the new RTS keying function. Before I had troubles, as "PTT via Radio command" often didn't work.
Thanks ! My whishlist is empty

Gianni IN3ASW