[aprssig] D7 Flow Control

Bill Vodall wa7nwp at jnos.org
Thu Jan 6 21:36:53 EST 2005



> <What ever happened to flow control?  Don't these things have flow control
> to
> stop a buffer over flow?>

> That doesn't entirely make sense to me, since the D7 only has a 3-wire
> serial conection which in turn just plain doesn't HAVE any lines for
> hardware flow control. The default of the radio (hardware flow control)
> appears to be physically impossible using the "DB3" [sic] connection that it
> has.

Flow control on RF is another part of the problem.   Packets at 9k6 come
in too fast for the unit to handle them.

Bill





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