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Re: [Trlog] Two Radios on One Serial Port?

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Subject: Re: [Trlog] Two Radios on One Serial Port?
From: "Mark Beckwith" <n5ot@n5ot.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:56:43 -0500
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Actually Tree and I tried this when he was here last summer.  The results 
were mixed.  We got the computer and radios talking on one serial port, but 
at present there is no safeguard against collisions, of which there were 
plenty.  So it worked at times and didn't work at other times.  Tree was 
just happy the program didn't stop the process because two radios were 
assigned to the same port.

I was using two Icom 746PROs - which are independently addressable.

It would be very slick to be able to do SO2R with an old laptop that has one 
serial port and one parallel port.  Very cool indeed.  With two little HF 
radios, that would be a SO2R contest dxpedition in a carry-on (except for 
the 40 meter beam).

To get him to work out the software I should offer to trade daughters with 
Tree; his is 13 and mine is 9.  There are days I know he'd consider it :)

Mark, N5OT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale Martin" <kg5u@hal-pc.org>
To: "TRLog Reflector" <Trlog@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 7:56 PM
Subject: [Trlog] Two Radios on One Serial Port?


>
> An excellent Central Texas SSB operator and ARDF enthusiast said this in a
> note on another reflector:
>
> I suppose, but
>> every logging program I know of expects each radio to be on
>> its own serial port.
>
> Is this so in TRLog?
>
> In TRLog, each receiver address can be set separately.  Certainly, the
> respective radio's receiver addresses have to match.
>
> Does this mean TRLog WILL work with two radios on one serial port?
>
> I haven't tried it, but was wondering if anyone else might have and what
> their results were.
>
> 73,
> Dale, kg5u
>
>
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