Thanks for the replies. Out of curiosity, I pulled out an old Inspiron 600m laptop and it works. at least for polling the rig. I haven't tried an upload yet. Perhaps this suggest a serial timing issue? The other computer that didn't work is and Athlon quad on a Asus m/b. I do regularly use the serial port on the Asus machine without any issue. Later this morning I will try uploading. Thank
Yes, it definitely could be. Yaesu radios are really (really) bad about timing-related issues. They can't read the stream anywhere near the baud rate, they do no flow control, etc. It's a real struggle and the 2800 seems to be one of the worst.
If it is timing-related we can tweak that a bit. Although it may seem counterproductive, I'd like to get the upcoming release snapped and posted before we get into this, since it may be quite a bit of back-and-forth before we get the timing resolved.
Thanks!