KIO2 Questions

[N0EHQ]

I have recently finished the KIO2 accessory for my K2. Everything appears to checkout as it should but I have a strange behavior using the KIO2 and Ham Radio Deluxe. My control board is Rev. B and as I understand from the manual there should be no modifications required of the board itself?

The K2 and HRD connect like one would expect. I am able to change bands and the rest of the parameters from HRD and can observe and hear the changes on the K2.

Now for the oddity. The frequency display on the computer screen will appear as it should then it will start to change shall we say resolution? In other words it will drop the last digit in the 7-digit display or the last 3 digits and eventually get down to the only the first digit being displayed. These changes do not appear to be in any apparent order but rather more of a random nature. As you might guess the slider on the screen schanges as well at the same time.

For now the KIO2 is on the shelf. So what am I missing here?

Ed Palmer
K2 #4595
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[Don Wilhelm-3]

Ed,

While I may be wrong, I would think there is no problem with either the KIO2
or the K2.  If you look at the KIO2 Programmers Reference, you will find
that the K2/KIO2 report (or get) the frequency in 11 digits - the high order
and the low order digits are ignored when sending a frequency to the K2 and
should be zero when sent by the K2.  The frequency sent to the computer is
not truncated.

So your problem is likely with either your computer or your particular HRD
installation.  You might want to ask yourself if the computer is adequate
for the version of HRD you are using?, or do you have the port parameters
set correctly? (try changing the number of stop bits), or is HRD having some
conflict with your operating system? or several other questions of that
nature.

> -----Original Message-----
>
> I have recently finished the KIO2 accessory for my K2. Everything
> appears to checkout as it should but I have a strange behavior
> using the KIO2 and Ham Radio Deluxe. My control board is Rev. B
> and as I understand from the manual there should be no
> modifications required of the board itself?
>
> The K2 and HRD connect like one would expect. I am able to change
> bands and the rest of the parameters from HRD and can observe and
> hear the changes on the K2.
>
> Now for the oddity. The frequency display on the computer screen
> will appear as it should then it will start to change shall we
> say resolution? In other words it will drop the last digit in the
> 7-digit display or the last 3 digits and eventually get down to
> the only the first digit being displayed. These changes do not
> appear to be in any apparent order but rather more of a random
> nature. As you might guess the slider on the screen schanges as
> well at the same time.
>
> For now the KIO2 is on the shelf. So what am I missing here?
>
> Ed Palmer
> K2 #4595
>

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