Packet Engine Pro Help

General Information
   
Introduction
   Features
   Supported TNCs
   
User Interface
   Registration
   Copyright
Program Setup

   Radio Port Mgr
    . Edit TNC/modem Port
    . Edit Sound Card Port
       - Tuning Aid
       - Volume Settings
    . Edit Parameters
    New Port Setup
    Network TCP/IP Settings
   Radioport Sharing
   
Auto Start Clients
   Other Settings
Views
   Program Status
   Port Activity Status
   Shared Radio Ports
   AX.25 Status (Stations)
   Connected Programs
   Heard Stations List 
   Monitor
Other Features
   TCP/IP Over Radio
     . Driver Install
     . PE Pro Settings
     . Windows Settings
   Registration
   HTTP Interface
   Live Update
   Launch IE Browser
   Go to AGWsoft web site
   Send Error Report
Tips, Tricks, & Trouble
   Tips and Tricks
   Problems?
   
Sound Card Use
     . Sound Card Interface
     . HF Operations
     . 9600 Operations
     . Receive Problems
     . Transmit Problems

 

Help Date: 21 June 2004

 

 

Tips and Tricks

  • For some of the AGWsoft client programs, such as AGWTerm or AGWDXCluster, the callsign and SSID you use in the program will be noted by Packet Engine Pro. If you use different SSIDs in each program, then PE Pro can route packets to the proper program. As an example, let's say that you are running a BBS program with a callsign of SV2AGW-1 and a DX Cluster program with a callsign of  SV2AGW-12. PE Pro will know that packets to SV2AGW-1 must be directed to the BBS program and packets to SV2AGW-12 must be directed to the DX Cluster program. Neither program gets packets intended for the other.
     
  • Use PE Pro's auto start feature to automatically load application programs or utilities as soon as PE Pro is finished loading. For example, if you mostly use UI-View with PE Pro, you could add UI-View as an auto start client. Then when you start PE Pro, UI-View will launch immediately, too.
     
  • Note that PE Pro automatically monitors frequency traffic and can adjust TNC timing parameters to match that traffic level. You can override this from the TNC parameters screen, but generally it would be to your advantage to use this very useful feature. It relieves you of determining and implementing the best timing parameters.
  • If you minimize Packet Engine Pro to an icon in the system tray, you can click on the icon to either Open (Maximize PE Pro) or Exit (close the program). If you exit from the minimized icon, PE Pro will open the next time in the same minimized condition.
     
  • In many of the View windows, you can sort entries by clicking on one of the field titles --  once for ascending, twice for descending, and a third time to return to the original order. You can also change the order of columns by dragging the column's title cell to a new location;, and you change the width of a column by clicking and dragging the right separator bar in the column's title cell.
     
  • Use the Monitor view to see what PE Pro is actually transmitting. (Monitor view performs most of the functions of the separate AGWsoft program AGWMonitor.)
     
  • For off air testing of two programs, create a Loopback port via the New Port Wizard. For instance, you could run two instances of AGWTerminal and use the Loopback port to "connect" one to the other.
     

 


Copyright 2004 SV2AGW George Rossopoulos . All rights reserved.