Carl,
I appreciate your comment. However, if we could read/write all the
Orion's settings from the computer, we could be sure that the user has
a consistent experience when running "local" or "remote". That's just
the problem I was seeing: Changing bands from the control panel can
produce a different result than changing them from the computer,
because of the "hidden" band buttons, band stacking regs, and the
antenna selection menu. There's no way the computer can know how those
things are set up by the user.
73, Martin
--- Carl Moreschi <n4py@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Martin,
>
> You are correct on all you comments about what you cannot do from the
> serial
> port. However, I prefer commands from the serial port to do nothing
> other
> than what you request. My program remembers all settings from
> previous
> bands. I prefer for the program to send new antenna settings, mode
> settings, filters settings, etc. when changing bands from the
> program. If
> the Orion does these things automatically, you get into chaos if the
> settngs
> are different in the program verses the Orion.
>
> 73,
>
> Carl Moreschi N4PY
> Franklinton, North Carolina
> n4py@earthlink.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin AA6E" <msembx-aa6e@yahoo.com>
> To: <orion@contesting.com>; <ditsnbits@tentec.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:03 AM
> Subject: [Orion] Orion programming model
>
>
> > (v 1.372) Here are a couple of remarks based on recent programming
> > work with the Orion.
> >
> > Observations:
> >
> > 1. The menu-based Antenna select options cannot be accessed or set
> from
> > the serial port. (Or, I haven't found the magic formula.)
> >
> > The Antenna select programming [by band] seems to be only effective
> > when the user manually pushes the band select buttons.
> >
> > 2. The "band select" and "band stacking registers" are functions
> that
> > do not seem to exist as seen from the serial port.
> >
> > 3. Setting the operating frequence (VFO A, etc) to a new band from
> the
> > serial port does not trigger a "band change" in the antenna
> selection
> > logic. You can explicitly command the antenna selection, of
> course.
> >
> > It's confusing to have antennas auto-selected in one mode (manual
> use
> > of front panel and not in another - computer control). This comes
> up
> > when when working in a mixed mode - partly computer controlled &
> partly
> > manual front-panel.
> >
> > Suggestions:
> >
> > 1. All front panel & menu settings should be available for
> read/write
> > serial port programming. This would be particularly helpful to set
> up
> > antenna selection and band stacking registers to known values.
> (The
> > BSR's now are pretty hard to use if the user's memory isn't
> perfect.
> > What mode was I in 3 button pushes ago?)
> >
> > 2. Unrelated: Let the computer display a text message on the
> Orion's
> > LCD screen, e.g, one line in the sweep area when the sweep is off.
> > Would that ever be neat...
> >
> > Collaboration!
> >
> > 73, Martin AA6E
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