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Re: [RTTY] Re: PK232 Question

To: "Richard Kriss" <aa5vu@arrl.net>,"rtty-contesting" <rtty@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Re: PK232 Question
From: "Tom Homewood" <w1to@adelphia.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:18:54 -0400
List-post: <mailto:rtty@contesting.com>
KISS $00

Should be the command to turn KISS off.

73, Tom, W1TO


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Kriss" <aa5vu@arrl.net>
To: "rtty-contesting" <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:26 PM
Subject: [RTTY] Re: PK232 Question


> > Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:57:46 -0400
> > From: "Bob Wanderer" <aa0cy@QUADNET.NET>
> > Subject: [RTTY] PK232 Question
> > To: "RTTY" <RTTY@CONTESTING.COM>
> >
> > I've a PK232MBX that seems to be "stuck" in wordout being
> > on, even though it (dumb terminal mode) claims that the
> > parameter is turned off; and I've set it to off in the dumb
> > terminal.  I tried turning it on, hoping that it would then
> > be off, but no joy.  It was a PK232 upgraded to a MBX with
> > mid-1990 firmware.  Is this normal?  Any ideas?  Should I be
> > in a screen other than dumb terminal?
> >
> > Timewave has not responded to my request for assistance.
> >
> > Thanks & 73,
> > Bob AA0CY
>
> Bob,
>
> It sounds like you are stuck in the KISS mode.  Do you see the cmd: prompt
> or AEA blurb when you depress the ON/OFF button? If the answer is NO, you
> are stuck in the host mode.
>
> I have an old script I wrote years ago for the White Knight term program
> called KISS-OFF that runs on the Mac and it sends a stream of Control-C's
> that is how the PK-232 manual tell you to exit the KISS mode. Very hard to
> do if you do not have a cmd: prompt.
>
> Maybe others can help with some PC tricks to get you out of the KISS mode.
>
> Good Luck
>
> 73, Dick - AA5VU
> Austin, TX
>
>
> (Procedure to reset PK232 to standard non-HOST/KISS mode
> (                   by KD5VU  21 Apr 91
> (File:  KISSON
> (The following routine sends 3 ctl-c chars and waits for cmd: prompt;
> (  if cmd: is not seen, cycle repeats.
>
> :tryagain
> PAUSE 180
> TYPE ^C
> PAUSE 20
> TYPE ^C
> PAUSE 20
> TYPE ^C
> ALERT1 cmd:/JUMPTO nokiss
> JUMPTO tryagain
> PROMPT asdf
>
> :nokiss
> TYPE ^M
> PAUSE 30
> TYPE ^M
> BELL
> NESTEND
>
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