[Xastir] RE: ancient history question: HK232

[mark]

MANY thanks to both Bobs (N7XY and KD7NM) for their insight and history
help.

Using the control command:

  TC1

Followed on a new line with:

  *

Helped BIG time to get me up and running.  

Currently, I've just got the radio's receive tied in to the HK232.  I
wanted to see how this thing behaved before polluting the rf with my
errors...

Now to work on the maps (nothing is displayed currently).  Murry (VE9MB)
will likely beat me to the finish line on that...

Thanks again,

- Mark
N4CMB

> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, mark wrote:
>
>> The difficulty I've had attempting this is the cute auto-baud  
>> 'feature'
>> of the HK232.  At power-up, the HK232 is set for serial comms of 1200
>> 7E1.  But at 1200, it can require several asterisk character entries
>> separated by 1-second intervals to get the HK232 to recognize the  
>> baud
>> speed.
>
> There were some mods to the Xastir interface code quite a while back
> that allow for delays and for sending without control-C's, but I
> don't recall whether you can send without any CR's.
> See tnc-startup.d700, tnc-startup.thd7, tnc-stop.d700 and
> tnc-stop.thd7 for examples.
>
> Perhaps that'll be enough to get you going.

I suspect that tnc-startup.aea might be more appropriate, since the  
HK232 is really a PK232 in disguise.

Bob, N7XY