Ron,
How about doing a little experiment. Change the parameters on your windows
settings for the Orion comport to 1200 baud. The Orion will only work at
57600 baud. Then run the Orion update program and install 1.367 again.
You will find installing the update still works, proving that the tentec
update program overrides your settings and sets the comport to the correct
values.
73,
Carl Moreschi N4PY
Franklinton, NC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron" <royalct@inr.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 1:28 PM
Subject: RE: [TenTec] Re: [Orion] Updating the Orion-set the baud rate
> Wonder were this 'good' software is; I've only had a few cases of using
> programs that set the ports. Personally, I do not want the software
> 'automatically' setting the parameters.
>
> Most 'ham' programs that I have encounter does not set the serial port
> parameters. In most instances, the serial port has to be set manually to
> the exact parameters that 'end device', i.e. radios, TNCs, etc, wants to
> see. I have gone through this so many times........set the computer's
port
> to that of the end device and the communications problems go
away...........
>
> In fact, when I tried my first update on the Orion I had forgotten to set
> the serial port parameters. Only after I manually set the port did the
> upgrade worked (i.e., the computer communicated with the radio). Note
that
> the Orion's serial port is on a third party PCI serial board.
>
>
> Ron .......... NU1U
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Carl Moreschi
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 20:10
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Re: [Orion] Updating the Orion-set the baud rate
>
> John,
>
> I guarentee you that was not the thing that made it work. All good
programs
> set all the comport parameters themselves and do not rely on the user to
set
> these things in the windows settings.
>
> Carl Moreschi N4PY
> Franklinton, NC
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John L Merrill" <jmerrill1@adelphia.net>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 1:05 AM
> Subject: RE: [TenTec] Re: [Orion] Updating the Orion-set the baud rate
>
>
> > Carl:
> > I have seen where some have actually had to set there com port to
> > 57600 to make the update work. I wonder why?
> >
> > John N1JM
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
> > [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Carl Moreschi
> > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 7:59 PM
> > To: tentec@contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [TenTec] Re: [Orion] Updating the Orion-set the baud rate
> >
> >
> > The baud rate you set your comport at is overridden by the Orion
> > update software. The Orion only works at 57600 baud. The speed you
> > configure
> the
> > comport to in your windows settings is meaningless.
> >
> > Carl Moreschi N4PY
> > Franklinton, NC
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "john rader" <kd5yty@yahoo.com>
> > To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 12:44 AM
> > Subject: [TenTec] Re: [Orion] Updating the Orion-set the baud rate
> >
> >
> > > My Windows 98 machine was set to 9600, no prob with 3 updates.
> > >
> > > I ran across this in the RF2 site,
> > > The Orion Programmer's Reference Guide says: "Although the ORION
> > interface operates at 57,600 baud short commands are used to keep the
> > processing overhead to a minimum..."
> > >
> > > John KD5YTY
> > >
> > >
> > >
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