> > My problem is this: Somewhere along the line the Baypac group chose to
> > use non-standard pinouts at the rs232 interface. They use the
>
> It was not an arbitrary decision. Packets are a synchronous stream of
> 8 bit bytes without stop and start bits. Serial ports are aynchronous
> only, there is no way to generate synchronous data using such a port in
> the normal way. The Baycom idea is just to use the control lines as
I always wondered why the Baycom guys designed the thing
ass-backwards. They seemed pretty clever otherwise. Even though
English is not their native language, they ought to be able to figure
out what letters like TD, RD, DTR, etc stood for, shouldn't they?
Someone told me the mixup was more or less a "traditional" one,
originating with the earlier "hamcom" interface. But your explanation
makes more sense, and vindicates the Baycom desiginers in my mind.
Everything else they do seems very well done.
Billp (n2zly)