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Subj: Getting the KamPlus to work with WinFBB
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Getting the KamPlus to work with WinFBB !.
With helpfull Minds.
I would like to thank all the following persons for their Technical help and patience in helping to supply me with most
of the input concerning the setting up of Kamplus to work with WinFBB.
Patrice, FK8KAB@FK8KAB.#NEA.NCL.OC
Rudolf, HS0AC@HS0AC.#PWT.BKK.THA.AS
Trevor, VK5ATB@VK5ATB.#BVL.#SA.AUS.OC
The Operating system is Win95 or Win89 and the following steps are intended to get you in the ball park
of setting up the two com ports of the KamPlus to work with WinFBB.
We assume that you have already installed WinFFB on your computer and your main hard drive is at the route
of C: to which you have installed WinFBB in C:\FBB
as well as this we assume you have setup in the first instance in the install config program the ports etc,
so as to have the kamplus working as VHF port com 1 and HF port com 2.
There is to be a few more pages to follow concerning getting started with WinFBB and the Kamplus to which
You will need the following program to begin the " Prepping of the Kamplus "
this is the program Pacterm which should have come with your kamplus but if not here is a link to go to,
to download this program now.
Download PACTERM 2.0 at
Kantronics Co., Inc.Homepage Click on Link to Go.
Note: CMD: INTFACE TERMINAL
is the command line for changing the Kamplus hardware setting within the Kamplus.
It has to be noted that the word " INTFACE TERMINAL " is for the Kamplus
hardware setting only to which you will be editing in using the commands
in " INTFACE TERMINAL ".
To which this is what we will now be preparing to do "re programing "
so here now are the easy few steps you will need to take.
Here now are your few steps of getting your KAMPLUS ready to use with FBB !
Prepping the KAMPLUS !.
1) First you must remove the battery inside the KAMPLUS and make a complete reset
with all power to the kamplus off and disconnected.
Then after 10 mins or so put the battery backup back in again and use the PACTERM
(program supply with the KAMPLUS)
Now we are going to " Prep " the Kamplus with all the new commands that you will
need.
You may have to repeat and do the above reset a few times to get the Kamplus to clear its memory if you
have difficulty the main problem is you may not have given enough time for the Kamplus to have reset and
clear its old memory so repeat this setup again right from the start !
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First get the program " Pacterm " up and running follow through on it and go into
the main command menu of " Pacterm " by using the F9 key on your computer keyboard
to now go to " TNC command mode " of the Pacterm program and then enter the command
" INT TERM " which is short for the wording for INTFACE TERMINAL then enter these
following commands :
MYCALL VK????Your own callsign here
MYALIAS %
MYNODE %
MYPBBS %
MYGATE %
MYSELCAL %
PBBS 0
INT HOST
When you have finished entering all the above commands using the "Pacterm" program
on the last line of your now new commands list at INT HOST , you will need to leave the
PACTERM program properly in order to save all these new commands to your Kamplus.
This means that you will have to get back to the main menu in the PACTERM program and
then exit from there.
DO NOT EXIT directly from the TERMINAL MENU within the Pacterm program as your
work will not be saved..
The [ Inttnc.sys ] File !.
Now with these new commands done in the Prepping of your Kamplus eprom we move on to the second stage to which
you are now going to tell WinFFB where to find the comports on your Kamplus to which you are going
to make [ Two files ] called [ INTTNC1.SYS ] & [ INTTNC2.SYS ].
Now you will have to make two new files to drive your Kamplus HF/VHF ports on the back of your kamplus to do
this you will have to make two files called and name them [ INTTNC1.SYS ]& [ INTTNC2.SYS ].
But first go into C:\FBB\SYSTEM and find the file called [ Inttnc.sys ] this file is
already in your WinFBB directory as it was installed by WinFBB.
Take this file out and just put it in a safe place somewhere on you hard drive for
the moment but make a working copy of this file and put the working copy into a temp directory as we
are going to now use this working copy to make 2 files called [ INTTNC1.SYS ] & [ INTTNC2.SYS ].
Now is the time boot up the WinFBB program and dont worry about any errors you get at this time
Go into the program "WinFBB" and at the top right corner click on the Icon " edits a system file"
this will bring up your editor within WinFBB scroll down the files and find the file called [ Inttnc.sys ]
highlight and cut out all the Text on this file then copy from the clip board the first New [ INTTNC1.SYS ]
file as seen below and save it to C:\FBB\SYSTEM
Do this a second time and name it [ INTTNC2.SYS ] and save this second file as [ INTTNC2.SYS ] again into
C:\FBB\SYSTEM to make sure you now have Two [ Inttnc.sys ] which should be named as
[ INTTNC1.SYS ]
[ INTTNC2.SYS ]
These files should now be in the following directory C:\FBB\SYSTEM
To see these files you can do this from within the Editor of WinFBB or you can cut back to windows and go
to the main directory of C:\FBB\SYSTEM to see for yourself if
these 2 New files will now have replaced your old Inttnc.sys files to which you now
have got 2 new [ .SYS ] files for each port of the Kamplus.
Quit out of th WinFBB editor and close down WinFBB.
The VHF/HF .SYS commands Files.
The following HF/VHF files are only examples but remember that the VHF Port on the Kamplus is on " Port 1 "
and the HF port is on " Port 2 " of your Kamplus.
#INTTNC1.SYS
#
#inittnc for KAM+ Port 1 is the VHF Port
UNPROTO MAIL/MAIL
US 10/10
MONITOR ON/ON
CONOK ON/ON
MCOM ON/ON
MCON ON/ON
MX ON/ON
MRES ON/ON
RETRY 15/10
FRACK 2/4
MAXFRAME 1/2
DWAIT 5/5
PACLEN 78/255
PERS 250/255
RESPTIME 5/0
SLOT 0/0
TXDELAY 20/40
CMSG OFF/OFF
CHECK 18/18
DIGI ON/ON
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#INTTNC2.SYS
#
#inittnc for KAM+ Port 2 is the HF Port
UNPROTO MAIL/MAIL
US 10/10
MONITOR ON/ON
CONOK ON/ON
MCOM ON/ON
MCON ON/ON
MX ON/ON
MRES ON/ON
RETRY 15/10
FRACK 2/4
MAXFRAME 1/2
DWAIT 5/5
PACLEN 78/255
PERS 250/255
RESPTIME 5/0
SLOT 0/0
TXDELAY 20/40
CMSG OFF/OFF
CHECK 18/18
DIGI ON/ON
The above files will do packet on each of the two com ports of your kamplus using WinFBB to which at the first encounter is
good to see as this tells you that you have now got things working.
Both these files can be edited at any time to suit your own requirements or fine tune these commands in each of
the TWO [ Inttnc1.sys ] & [ Inttnc2.sys ] files that you did for each port of your Kamplus for your own use.
Summary of the HF/VHF port commands Files !.
The HF Port 2 file are Packet commands and are the same as the above file for the VHF Port 1 and are only examples
of how to setup these commands for use with your kamplus and WinFBB program so as WinFBB can communicate with your
Kamplus com ports for the first time.
This is done by running WinFBB and from the Local connection within the console window of the WinFBB Program you can
connect to yourself and do a " G " Gateway command and if everything is correct WinFBB will have listed the two
com port as 1, 2, to which you would have already have told WinFBB to do this in the main config install program.
This is very important to see this for the first time as it lets you know without any doubt that you can now issue a connect
command to each of the 2 com ports and the kamplus will respond by showing the correct led on the port of the kamplus
that you are issueing a connect command on .....so at least now you have got the Kamplus and WinFBB talking.
73/s
Peter VK8PDG
MBO-BBS: VK8PDG@VK8PDG.PLM.#NT.AUS.OC
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