RLC-2 V4.07 Beta Please note that this is beta software - it probably has bugs !!!! Use it at your own risk!!!! Our next upload should include a new manual with all of the changes since V4.00. Changes since V4.06 1) REMOVED THE LINE FEEDS THAT OCCURRED DURING A MACROS EXECUTION 2) RE-ENABLED VOICE\TONE\CW\DVR FIRST COME FIRST SERVE POLITNESS 3) FIXED A PROBLEM WITH THE DTMF PRIORITY COMMAND 115 4) CHANGED THE WAY I WATCHED PORTS FOR ACTIVITY FOR THE ID'S. THIS SHOULD... FIX THE PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED WITH THE PORTS IDING SEQUENCE. 5) FOUND THE LOCK-UP BUG THAT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE AUTOPATCH. THE PROBLEM OCCURRED WHEN TRYING TO DIAL A NUMBER WITHOUT A NUMBER. USUALLY THE RLC-2 CAUGHT THE PROBLEM BEFORE IT MADE IT THROUGH THE AUTOPATCH ROUTINES, BUT ONCE IN A WHILE THE CONTROLLER WOULD NOT SEE THE LACK OF DATA AND TREAT THE AUTOPATCH NUMBER LENGTH LIKE IT WAS 256 CHARACTERS LONG. THIS WOULD HAMMER THE ACCESS VARIABLES THAT WHERE RIGHT AFTER THE DIALING QUE. WHEN THE ACCESS VARIABLES WERE CHANGED, THE CONTROLLER WOULD BE IN A UNKNOWN STATE. THE BUG WAS REPEATABLE AND THE FIX HAS NEVER CRASHED AND BURNED YET... THANKS EVERYBODY THAT HELPED US TRACK THIS PROBLEM DOWN. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! 6) GAVE YOU 20 MORE MACROS (YOU ARE WELCOME...) COMMANDS 221..240 ARE YOUR NEW 20 MACRO NUMBERS MOVED COMMANDS 221..224 TO 241..245 REMOVED 25 MESSAGE SLOTS (048,049) *** JUST AN ADDITIONAL NOTE CONCERNING AUDIO ROUTING VARIABLES *** COMMAND 039 IS PROVIDED AS A MEANS OF CHANGING THE INTERNAL AUDIO ROUTING VARIABLE THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH EXECUTION OF COMMANDS THAT DO NOT DIRECTLY CONTAIN ROUTING VARIABLES. - THESE COMMANDS ARE: SENDING A TONE SEQUENCE: COMMAND 042 SENDING A CW MESSAGE: COMMAND 043 SENDING A VOICE MESSAGE: COMMAND 044 MESSAGES USED INSIDE MACROS: COMMANDS 171..240 WHEN COMMAND 039 IS EXECUTED AND THE AUDIO ROUTING VARIABLE FROM 00..31 IS PASSED INTO THE COMMAND, MESSAGES WILL BE ROUTED TO WHERE THAT ROUTING VARIABLE INDICATES. FOR EXAMPLE: I WANT TO SEND THE VOICE MESSAGE 1 2 3 OUT PORT 2 AND 4 5 6 OUT PORT 1 I WILL USE MACRO 01 FOR THE EXAMPLE 165 01 ; CLEAR MACRO 168 01 039 02 ; ROUTE MESSAGES TO PORT 2 168 01 045 001 002 003 ; SPEAK THE MESSAGE 1 2 3 OUT PORT 2 168 01 039 01 ; ROUTE MESSAGES TO PORT 1 168 01 045 004 005 006 ; SPEAK THE MESSAGE 4 5 6 OUT PORT 1 WHEN COMMAND 171 IS EXECUTE (MACRO 01) THE VOICE 123 GOES OUT PORT2 AND THE VOICE 456 GOES OUT PORT 1. THE NEXT EXECUTION OF AN INTERNAL MESSAGE WILL BE ROUTED TO THE LAST SETTING OF COMMAND 039. 7) ADDED 2 NEW EVENTS THAT ARE CALLED BY THE AUTOPATCH - EVENT 104 IS CALLED BY THE MEMORY DIAL ROUTINE. THE DEFAULT MESSAGE IS 'AUTO DIAL'. THE SET-UP IS MESSAGE TYPE 4, ROUTING TO CALLING PORT. - EVENT 105 IS CALLED BY THE DIRECT DIAL ROUTINE. THE DEFAULT MESSAGE IS 'AUTO PATCH'. THE SET-UP IS MESSAGE TYPE 4, ROUTING TO CALLING PORT THE APPLICATIONS FOR THESE EVENTS IS TO ALLOW CUSTOM AUTOPATCH UP MESSAGES. 8) ADDED THE EVENT RESPONSE TO COMMAND 063 AND 064. THE VOICE NOW READS BACK THE EVENT THAT IS ASSIGNED. Other Notes: Command 148 is the autopatch last number redial. This directory should contain the following files: readme this file eproms.zip the files needed to burn your own V4.07 eproms for the RLC-2 and RLC-2a. The manual has not been updated since V4.00, so it is not copied here. Notes: To install the update you need to unzip eproms.zip and burn two 27C512 eproms, one with the voice data and one for the main program rom. After installing the new roms, power up the controller while holding down the initialization button on the circuit board. This will set everything up for factory defaults. You can then begin programming. eproms.zip contains: voice401.bin - Binary file for the voice rom rlc2a407.icm - RLC2a Binary file for main rom with Icom HF interface rlc2a407.kwd - RLC2a Binary file for main rom with Kenwood HF interface rlc2_407.icm - RLC2 Binary file for main rom with Icom HF interface rlc2_407.kwd - RLC2 Binary file for main rom with Kenwood HF interface PDF is Adobe's Portable Document Format. This is a format that can be viewed and/or printed from DOS, Windows, Macintosh, and Unix systems using the appropriate version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader. Acrobat is freely distributable; you can download it from Adobe's ftp site. If you have difficulty with their site, let me know and we may be able to post the reader ourselves. You may be able to download the viewer and/or manual files using your WWW browser. All of the applicable addresses are listed below. Our addresses: Email: linkcomm@netins.net FTP: ftp.netins.net in directory showcase/linkcomm WWW: http://www.netins.net/showcase/linkcomm/ select the ftp icon, then showcase then linkcomm Adobe's addresses: FTP: ftp.adobe.com in directory pub/adobe/Acrobat WWW: http://www.adobe.com/ If you have any questions, please email, fax or call Allan or me. Steve Strobel linkcomm@netins.net (407) 482-7547 fax (407) 482-7515 voice