[time-nuts] Control and monitor program for Spectracom 8195B

[Taka Kamiya]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Now I can unify GPSDO monitoring into just one program.  I'm also using LH with TICC.  The fact that LH recognizes trailing channel ID string resolves an issue I was having.  

I still don't know why I could not received the executable.  My only guess is, somewhere along the chain, automated system recognizes the EXE format and alters it.  Would you be posting the new version in the LH thread on EEVforum?   It's getting late in Florida, so I'll try to see where it is tomorrow.
THANK YOU!

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(Mr.) Taka Kamiya
KB4EMF / ex JF2DKG
 

    On Tuesday, July 30, 2019, 12:00:33 AM EDT, Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com> wrote:  
 
 I got in an 8195A and managed to get Heather working with the wonky, very much not computer friendly,  Spectracom interface and command set.

When you send a command to the device it echoes back the characters.  This is very useful for telling what command the device is responding to.  But, about half the time, the echoed characters were garbled.  Also several response messages came back corrupted.  Oh, and occasionally the unit would lock up and require a power cycle to recover.  The problem turned out to be that you can't send command strings to the device at computer friendly speeds.  You need several milliseconds of delay between each character you send!

Anyway, Heather now work with the Spectracom "ageless" oscillators.  BTW, for an "ageless" oscillator, these units have a procedure for correcting oscillator aging  ;-)

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> The problem with the 8195 is that the serial port software interface was designed for human interaction with very little regard paid to supporting a computer monitoring program._______________________________________________
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