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Dayton Hamvention 2010 APRS Vendor Map

Jason R — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:07:31 GMT

For those attending Dayton 2010, I have made up a quick-reference map to all of the APRS-related vendors. http://www.rpc-electronics.com/dayton-booth-map.jpg I

Re: LCD Speed / baud

Byon Garrabrant — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:11:40 GMT

The screen is interfaced with a parallel connection, not a serial one, so baud rate is not really applicable. The problem may be that your new display has

LCD Speed / baud

Jeff — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:09:47 GMT

At what speed does the screen supposed to be at? 4800 baud? 9600? 19,200? I replaced the screen and get some garbled characters ever so often. Thx Jeff

Re: TTL?

Jeff — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:55:38 GMT

Thanks Byon! Wickedly Cool!!! Jeff

Re: TTL?

Byon Garrabrant — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:34:26 GMT

The PICPAC uses a MAX-232, so you can easily bypass it by removing the MAX-232 chip and jumping pin 12 to 13 and 11 to 14. Then you can feed it TTL serial.

TTL?

Jeff — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:08:53 GMT

Hi guys Can the PICPAC do TTL from a GPS? To me it looks like it only will take a serial conection... Is that so? I managed to upload the firmware and use

Re: Dim LCD

Jeff — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:46:47 GMT

Yup the display is not 100%. I tested it with a 2 x 16 and it is good. I see that it should be a 4 line x 16 character display...

Re: Dim LCD

Bill Wright — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:44:05 GMT

I had the same problem when I built my PIC-EL. I just bought another 2x16 from allelectronics.com This fixed the veiw. 73 Bill kd5yyk ... From: Jeff

Re: Dim LCD

cls@... — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:22:13 GMT

hi, sorry for the unspecific response. I was at work and didn't have the schematics handy. now looking at the schematics, here's exactly what I meant: the R12

Re: Dim LCD

Jeff — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:26:18 GMT

dear responder Where am I supposed to check the voltage? The voltage going into thr picpac is 13.6V. Did u mean the input voltage to the lcd or something?

Re: Dim LCD

cls@... — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:08:56 GMT

check the output voltage, and try cleaning the wiper on R12.

Re: Dim LCD

Kurt Savegnago — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:42:58 GMT

Take a look at the numbers on the parts list as I think you you can buy a replacement display ... From: Jeff Subject: [picpac] Dim LCD

Dim LCD

Jeff — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:34:57 GMT

Hi, the display is dim. I adjust R12 and it is turned up all the way. Still too hard to see JD