CAT cable to FT-847
Has anyone had experience with the RT-Systems CAT USB cable they say works with the Yaesu FT-847? I recently received one, and loaded the drivers per the instructions and I am unable to get SATPC32 to connect with the 847. I am running a laptop with Windows 7. Does anyone currently have another vendor's cable that is working with the FT-847? Thanks, and please contact me off list at wa7eth@frontier.com so I don't clutter up the BB with my problems. Thanks..73'..Ed WA7ETH
Hi Ed,
I just tried a generic KeySpan USB to serial adapter on my Win 7 Pro 64 bit machine and it worked fine. My default baud rate setting was 9600 from SATPC32. I did have to change the radio CAT speed to 9600 just for the quick test (was 57600).
Mike
On 4/9/2015 8:06 PM, wa7eth@frontier.com wrote:
Has anyone had experience with the RT-Systems CAT USB cable they say works with the Yaesu FT-847? I recently received one, and loaded the drivers per the instructions and I am unable to get SATPC32 to connect with the 847. I am running a laptop with Windows 7. Does anyone currently have another vendor's cable that is working with the FT-847? Thanks, and please contact me off list at wa7eth@frontier.com so I don't clutter up the BB with my problems. Thanks..73'..Ed WA7ETH
Hi Ed,
Perhaps you have an early serial number unit. They have known issues with CAT control .....
"Yaesu appears to use the following format for serial numbers on their amateur products: Year of manufacture-Month of manufacture-Production Run-Individual Unit number, where the month of manufacture is offset by 2, so "C" means January, "D" means February, "E" means March, and so forth. Example: 8G051234 = 1998, May (fifth month, or "G"), Production Run 05, unit #1234 in this run.
One key serial number range is 8G05. This seems to be the point at which Yaesu had corrected the bi-directional CAT issue and made some other improvements. This version was made in May 1998. Later serial numbers (e.g., 8L09nnnn) all seem to have incorporated the earlier improvements plus newones."
73, Rick VK6XLR
On 4/9/2015 8:06 PM, wa7eth@frontier.com wrote:
Has anyone had experience with the RT-Systems CAT USB cable they say works with the Yaesu FT-847? I recently received one, and loaded the drivers per the instructions and I am unable to get SATPC32 to connect with the 847. I am running a laptop with Windows 7. Does anyone currently have another vendor's cable that is working with the FT-847? Thanks, and please contact me off list at wa7eth@frontier.com so I don't clutter up the BB with my problems. Thanks..73'..Ed WA7ETH
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