Sync problems with Fldigi

[WA4THR]

I am a new user of Log4OM and like what I see. I am using OmniRig to work with a Ten Tec Omni VII as well as HDSDR which is displaying a pan adapter. I wanted to get Fldigi coordinated into this mix, but have not had much success even following the manual pretty closely.

What I get is an indication that Fldigi is connected (green dots for connection to and from), but the inbound (to) dot soon changes to red. After a while, the outbound also changes to red. Fldigi never displays the frequency shown on the rig, the pan adapter, nor Log4OM, just whatever was there when it loaded. I do see log entries in Fldigi getting transferred into Log4OM, although with no signal report indicated.

Computer is an older PC running WinXP SP3. Any help appreciated.

=Vic=
WA4THR

[G4POP]

Are you running Log4om as an administrator?

Are you using the RPC/XML protocol to integrate Fldigi?

[WA4THR]

Thanks for the quick reply. I am not sure about the "administrator" thing...I suspect so, though. I am the only user on this computer and haven't run into things I am not allowed to do before. I selected the RPC/XML rig control in Fldigi and all the other methods are not checked.

=Vic=
WA4THR

[G4POP]

Vic
Have you set up the Log4OM communicator as detailed in the user guide and my YouTube video to work with FLDigi?

[WA4THR]

Yes. The program locked up a few times when I did it, but seemed to 'take" after a few tries. When I watched the incoming/outgoing Fldigi indicators they would start as all green on the communicator window, then one would go out. After a while the other would go out as well. As I said, frequency info was never transferred to Fldigi, but I do get the log info back into Log4OM from Fldigi.

=Vic=

[G4POP]

Sounds like your not running Log4om as an administrator, check the section covering that in our user guide

[WA4THR]

I am running Windows XP and don't have an "Administrator" option in the program properties. The guide shows the properties as they appear for Windows 7.

=Vic=

[G4DWV]

I am running Windows XP and don't have an "Administrator" option in the program properties.

Yes you do Vic, you just have not found them yet . There are several ways to do it.
A quick internet search found "If you create a shortcut, in the shortcut properties dialogue there is a button called advanced which lets you run the program with different credentials".

[WA4THR]

Well that is interesting. Yes, I did find in the advanced options I could "run with different credentials" and then when I launched the program I could select "administrator". It will then ask for the password for the "administrator", which I have no idea about. I checked user accounts and there are only 2 currently: my standard is in there as the administrator already, with no password ("guest" is the other), so I am not sure what to do about that. I suppose I can create a password for my standard account...not sure that will help or just add another step to getting started, but I will check.

Running the RTTY contest this weekend I found it isn't a huge problem. Log entries in Fldigi are getting transferred to Log4OM OK, it is just that I have to manually set the Fldigi displayed frequency whenever I QSY to have that be accurate.

=Vic=
WA4THR

[G4DWV]

IIRC, when installing XP, one does get asked to supply a password. If you did not, then you should be able to progress without supplying one; i.e. keep password field blank.

As you have found, having an administrator account does not mean that you are running all programs with administrator privileges.

Here's a couple of links to help, http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsxp ... word02.htm and http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... 0570716c4d.

Sometimes one has to mess with security settings and other stuff (ownership) to get windows to bend to your will.

Log4OM is a beautiful program with great support and I hope that you can get it to work as you wish. With Terry's help I have no doubt that you will.

Cheers

Guy G4DWV/4X1LT