Thanks, Barry... I'm going to QRT for tonight and see if I can get all
those cables reconnected behind the transceiver and amplifier. Maybe try
a different laptop tomorrow.
This Dell Inspiron has a serial port but it's female and all the cables
I can find around here also have female ends --- the only two males are
on the serial/USB converter cable and a short Y with two females on the
other end.
I don't know how to tell if COM3 is the one connected to the Orion, but
it was the only one not giving a "That port is not available" error.
Also don't see where to find or select the baud rate.
PS: Re my optimistic "progress" post --- shortly later the process
failed, "communication with the radio failed" or something like that.
It wasn't behaving properly anyway.
On 4/4/19 8:13 PM, Barry Simpson wrote:
Hi John
Are you sure that COM 3 is actually the one connected to your O2 ?
Does your old XP laptop have a serial port ? If so I would be using a
serial cable direct from the laptop to the O2.
Have you got the correct baud rate set - 57600 ?
Barry VK2BJ
On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 at 10:47, K3GHH <k3ghh@arrl.net> wrote:
Apologies for the elementary question, but with 3.033xa running (and
even that was installed by the factory, after service) I obviously don't
do this very often. Now trying to go to xe.
I'm using an old Windows XP laptop with a cable from the O-2's serial
port to a laptop USB port through an adapter. After trial and error I
found that COM3 did not give me a "Port not found" error, so I'm using
that. The "Ten-Tec Flash32 Flash Update Utility" seems to be running,
and the laptop screen shows a "11175 total data lines in file" message.
A couple of the laptop lights are blinking; one looks like a disk icon
and another like a battery.
But there's no action showing on the Orion screen --- just "FLASH UPDATE
MODE" and "Press any key to exit." From previous work I remember
progress being shown on the O2 screen, as the manual says it should be.
Suggestions?
-- John K3GHH
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