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

 

 

User Interface

Opening Screen

The first time you use Packet Engine Pro (PE Pro), you'll be asked to accept the software license agreement. If you agree, the Packet Engine Pro opening banner will remain on the screen for a few seconds (or click on it to make it disappear) and then the Program Status screen will appear. The Program Status screen will always appear as the opening screen until you configure a "radio port". After a radio port has been configured, PE Pro's opening screen will be the Radio Port Manager screen.

Menus

There are several ways to get to the screen you want:
  1. Top menus
  2. Left margin menus
  3. Tool bar icons if available

The main menu's tool bar icons are, from left to right:

   Program Status screen
  About screen
  Help screen

Note that the Edit menu in the top tool bar and the Radio Ports tool bar icon bar are only available if you select the Radio Port Manager screen.

Minimized Run

When you minimize PE Pro, either from the File menu or the minimize icon in the top right corner of the screen, PE Pro will shrink to this icon in the Windows System Tray (the far right section of the bottom line on your screen). To bring up the full PE Pro screen again, click on the icon and select Open. If you Exit PE Pro in the minimized condition, it will restart in the minimized condition.

Port Status Icon

  • For each PE Pro virtual port, you will see a TNC icon  in the System Tray. Dragging your cursor over the icon will make a status message appear:
      port description
      number of frames (packets) sent
      number of frames received.
     
  • If PE Pro successfully receives and decodes an incoming (received) packet from a port, the port's modem icon will quickly flash its small green light . If you need to trouble shooting receive problems, this is a good way to confirm if packets are being received by PE Pro.
     
  • When PE Pro sends a packet to a TNC, the icon will quickly flash its red light

There are also transmit and decode "LED" confirmation lights in the lower left corner of the PE Pro screen:

 

Copyright 2004 SV2AGW George Rossopoulos . All rights reserved.