I need some help in setting-up the RR-1274A in order to be able to use a laptop to remotely run my TS-480SAT.
Note that the system is connected via a pair of 1258-MKII devices and the radio works just fine from my home-based TS-480 control-head & RR-1258 combo.
- The TS-480SAT is connected to the radio's 1258-MKII front COM port via a direct DB9 cable
- I installed RR-Micro and it's working fine.
- Three virtual COM ports appear on the Windows XP laptop: COM 1, 2 and 3. All show that they are associated to "Microbit Virtual COM Port"
- Configured RR-Micro to connect to the RR-1258-MKII and it works (bottom green bar 1/3 up, activity LEDs are OK)
- TS-480SAT 's COM port is set to 9600 8,N,1
- Configured RR-Micro on COM 1, mode 4 (Kenwood), COM PORT: 1 (I also tried TERMINATOR to 00 as it's on the RR-Radio box). COM 0 and COM 2 remain inactive
- I connect to the remote MKII and as noted above, RTP is green, RRC flashed w/activity and Speaker is 1/3 green
- I start the Kenwood ACRP-480 application
- Then under the CONTROL | SETUP, I select COM 1 and 9600 BAUD, TX control DTS (also tried PTT) Kenwood Network Command is NOT checked
- When I click on "CON" to connect, the indicator turns yellow then I get a pop-up message "An unknown device is connected to COM 1 or the BAUD rate doesn't match... etc.)
- I tried different settings but to no avail.
So I need some help... I am certain that the problem is obvious to someone out there :-)
