K3s at Field Day 2010
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We had a great time at Field Day this year. We planned on using four K3s for our Class 4A operation. For the most part, everything went well. We did have to use a backup rig for one of the stations. During setup, one of the K3s gave an error at startup: ERR PL1 After a period of time, we turned the rig back on and the error message no longer displayed. However, whenever we tried to connect the Prolific USB cable to the rig, it would "beep" and would not communicate with the logging software, N1MM. Any ideas on what may be the problem? Thanks, Jed AD7KG ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I was never able to get a Prolific based USB converter to work with N1MM and my Windows 7, HP computer. I bought a PCIe RS-232 card and the problem went away. The Prolific USB Converter is the one that I bought from Elecraft and it works fine with the Elecraft software, but not with N1MM.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ ________________________________ From: Jed Petrovich <[hidden email]> To: Elecraft Email List <[hidden email]> Sent: Mon, June 28, 2010 9:18:15 AM Subject: [Elecraft] K3s at Field Day 2010 Hello all: We had a great time at Field Day this year. We planned on using four K3s for our Class 4A operation. For the most part, everything went well. We did have to use a backup rig for one of the stations. During setup, one of the K3s gave an error at startup: ERR PL1 After a period of time, we turned the rig back on and the error message no longer displayed. However, whenever we tried to connect the Prolific USB cable to the rig, it would "beep" and would not communicate with the logging software, N1MM. Any ideas on what may be the problem? Thanks, Jed AD7KG ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I don't know is all Elecraft cables are the same. I bought mine in 2008 when I bought serial number 1025. Elecraft did not build it, it is an aftermarket product.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ ________________________________ From: K9ZTV <[hidden email]> To: WILLIS COOKE <[hidden email]> Sent: Mon, June 28, 2010 9:49:04 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3s at Field Day 2010 The Elecraft converter cables worked fine with N1MM on four K3s at our Field Day site, Willis. Laptops were 2 Vistas and 2 XPs. 73, Kent K9ZTV Mid-MO Amateur Radio Club Jefferson City, MO SN #21 On 6/28/2010 9:30 AM, WILLIS COOKE wrote: I was never able to get a Prolific based USB converter to work with N1MM and my Windows 7, HP computer. I bought a PCIe RS-232 card and the problem went away. The Prolific USB Converter is the one that I bought from Elecraft and it works fine with the Elecraft software, but not with N1MM. > Willis 'Cookie' Cooke >K5EWJ > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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On 06/28/2010 08:30 AM, WILLIS COOKE wrote:
> I was never able to get a Prolific based USB converter to work with N1MM and my Windows 7, HP computer. I bought a PCIe RS-232 card and the problem went away. The Prolific USB Converter is the one that I bought from Elecraft and it works fine with the Elecraft software, but not with N1MM. > Willis 'Cookie' Cooke > K5EWJ HI Cookie, I had the same problem with the Prolific cables and N1MM, until I set RTS to "Always ON" in the N1MM config. It works fine now. Not sure why that needed to be set, but at least I got it working for FD. -- Sean - VA5LF ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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The Prolific problem is well known with Visual Basic 6, which is the
language MM is written in. We have had some recent reports that the most recent Prolific drivers (downloadable from their web site) have cured this problem, but I have not verified it personally. I *do* know that FTDI and some other chipsets work fine. 73, Pete N4ZR The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststations.com The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com, spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 On 6/29/2010 4:28 PM, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > On 06/28/2010 08:30 AM, WILLIS COOKE wrote: > >> I was never able to get a Prolific based USB converter to work with N1MM and my Windows 7, HP computer. I bought a PCIe RS-232 card and the problem went away. The Prolific USB Converter is the one that I bought from Elecraft and it works fine with the Elecraft software, but not with N1MM. >> Willis 'Cookie' Cooke >> K5EWJ >> > HI Cookie, > > I had the same problem with the Prolific cables and N1MM, until I set > RTS to "Always ON" in the N1MM config. It works fine now. Not sure why > that needed to be set, but at least I got it working for FD. > > -- > Sean - VA5LF > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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