So I moved my shack. Nothing special about that, but when I reconnected everything I found I could not throw the rig into tx from HRD5.2. I tried everything,strange words were spoken, the intenet was consulted. Nothing helped and I went to bed disconsolate. Practically an entire day gone with nothing to show for it. I woke with a plan:
1)Get CAT control working first via a serial cable between computer and rig.
2)make tx work via this serial lead.
3)THEN hook up the sound card to an M0AQC interface ( 3 cables leading to a little blue plastic box. I serial & 1 audio in/out lead to the computer and 1 six pin data lead to the rig.) and configure the soundcard.
I moved the computer so that I could get at the rear connectors. I got a tingle from the case. I thought 'static electricity'. I stopped thinking that when I was zapped a second time so I pulled the plug and swapped in another computer, a home brew job I'd equipped with two serial sockets (No usb-->serial adaptors to fiddle with, one less complication.
) I reckon some electricity was leaking out and upsetting the sound card: it was probably dripping all over the carpet.
The plan worked. I have HRD working fine. I have DM870 working fine. I have a shocking old computer scheduled for dismantling and salvage. When will I ever learn to step back from a problem and take the analytical approach? That random 'try this, try that' approach never works but I keep on drifting into that desperate downward spiral.... Some folk never learn.....
Vic /feeling much happier...
