IO Issues with K3

Running the 160 meter contest.  Lost connection with the rig from N1MM logger.  Cannot re-establish connection now with anything included the k3 utility.  I wonder if RF got to something?  Running the Prolific drivers and the USB adapter.  Changed ports.  Turned off and on CPU and associated USB hubs, cycled the K3....nada.  Any one have an idea?

Lee



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Looks like an issue with the USB adapter.  Hooked a straight RS232 serial cable (redundant) from COM1 to the Rig.  Works now.

Lee


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From: Lee Buller <[hidden email]>
Subject: [Elecraft] IO Issues with K3
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <[hidden email]>
Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 9:48 PM

Running the 160 meter contest.  Lost connection with the rig from N1MM logger.  Cannot re-establish connection now with anything included the k3 utility.  I wonder if RF got to something?  Running the Prolific drivers and the USB adapter.  Changed ports.  Turned off and on CPU and associated USB hubs, cycled the K3....nada.  Any one have an idea?

Lee



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[Cady, Fred]

Check the baud rate. I find if I run faster than 4800 either N1MM or the K3 (probably N1MM) doesn't like it.  4800 seems to be OK.

KE7X

 

 

Fred Cady
fcady at ieee dot org

 

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Subject: [Elecraft] IO Issues with K3

Running the 160 meter contest.  Lost connection with the rig from N1MM logger.  Cannot re-establish connection now with anything included the k3 utility.  I wonder if RF got to something?  Running the Prolific drivers and the USB adapter.  Changed ports.  Turned off and on CPU and associated USB hubs, cycled the K3....nada.  Any one have an idea?

Lee



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[Simon (HB9DRV)]

Possibly due to insufficient power to your USB <=> serial device ?

 

Simon Brown, HB9DRV
www.ham-radio-deluxe.com

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Check the baud rate. I find if I run faster than 4800 either N1MM or the K3 (probably N1MM) doesn't like it.  4800 seems to be OK.

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[Ed K1EP]

At 1/24/2009 12:45 PM, Cady, Fred wrote:

>Check the baud rate. I find if I run faster than 4800 either N1MM or
>the K3 (probably N1MM) doesn't like it.  4800 seems to be OK.
>KE7X

I run at 38400 with N1MM with no problems at all.  I have found once
in a while (like two or three times at most in the last year and a
half) that some handshake gets out of sync with the computer and
radio, and a power cycle on the radio cures it.  But you said you
tried that already.

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[Nick Kennedy]

I've been finding the same problems in the 160 test.

A lower baud rate seems like it would be fine for most things, but I
wonder if it would tend to shorten any Morse elements?  Now that I think
of it, maybe not, since the speed would remain the same at the USB end
of the interface.  And to send CW, the program just toggles a
handshaking line, independent of baud.

I do think that CW seems a tiny bit "clipped" from N1MM compared with
that using the built-in keyer.

I'm thinking RF problems too. I just re-intsalled my quarter wave
Marconi since the landscapers cut down my main antenna tree the other
day, so I probably changed the local field strength in some way.  N1MM
is having other hesitation problems as well.  I should probably
re-install it.

73--Nick, WA5BDU

Cady, Fred wrote:

> Check the baud rate. I find if I run faster than 4800 either N1MM or
> the K3 (probably N1MM) doesn't like it.  4800 seems to be OK.
> KE7X
>  
>  
>
> Fred Cady
> fcady at ieee dot org
>
>  
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* [hidden email]
>     [mailto:[hidden email]] *On Behalf Of *Lee Buller
>     *Sent:* Friday, January 23, 2009 8:48 PM
>     *To:* Elecraft Reflector
>     *Subject:* [Elecraft] IO Issues with K3
>
>
>     Running the 160 meter contest.  Lost connection with the rig from
>     N1MM logger.  Cannot re-establish connection now with anything
>     included the k3 utility.  I wonder if RF got to something?
>     Running the Prolific drivers and the USB adapter.  Changed ports.
>     Turned off and on CPU and associated USB hubs, cycled the
>     K3....nada.  Any one have an idea?
>
>     Lee
>
>

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