[time-nuts] Lucent RFTFm-II-XO- Lady Heather question-having issues

Chris Waldrup kd4pbj at gmail.com
Sat Sep 24 13:30:19 EDT 2016


Hi,

I downloaded the latest version 4.00 beta of lady Heather on my win XP laptop. 
Installation creates two icons on my desktop. One says KE5FX TBolt (Seattle USA) and has the lady Heather icon and the other has the icon and simply says Lady Heather. 
When I try and open the Lady Heather icon (not TBolt one) an error box pops up and says Can't open com port:\\.\COM1 and will not open the software. Opening the TBolt version icon instead will open the program. 

What did I do wrong?
Also the RS422 adapter shows up as com6 and I see in the instructions to change a command line to /6 for com6 but I am not sure where to find the command line.

Thank you. 

Chris

> On Sep 14, 2016, at 00:05, Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes.  The device supports a SCPI command set.   The next version of Lady Heather supports it... well at least my modified Z3812A does.
> 
> You probably don't need an RS422 converter.   You can cobble an RS-232 connection into the RS-422 port.  This usually works, but some hardware serial ports have voltage threshold issues reading data from the device (the RS-422 signals don't swing as much as the RS-232 ones do).  All my USB-serial dongles work well, but I have had some issues with genuine hardware serial ports.
> 
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> 
>> If I build or buy a 422 to 232 converter can I expect to be able to view the unit's data output with something like Lady Heather or Tboltmon? Or at least see an output with Hyperterminal?
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