Okay.. well.. I had issues with the 1/8" stereo jacks in many cases not fitting thought the SDR-Cube rear panel connector slot, so I eventually nibbled it out more (see prior posts).
Because of this.. when debugging I swapped Rx and Tx a couple of times on the serial cable since I couldn't get the cable to work with it not making proper contact in the 1/8" jacks. I thought I swapped them an even amount of times.. back to the same pin configuration of the diagram I had on-line.. but apparently I had that diagram backwards, and swapped Rx/Tx three times instead of two.. if you catch my drift.
I also had N2APB say to me that "yeah, that was right" without really checking it so I'm only accepting 1/3 of the blame for this problem! :O) The "AUX" serial cable post has been updated and now there is a drawing on the SDR-Cube site finally.
As for the couple of insinuations I read that I caused people to waste a lot of time with this error, all I can say is that you need to test the cable with a running SDR-Cube first before you go to program the SDR-Cube! If you don't it's your own fault.. not mine. Make sure you get serial output before pressing in that menu button while powering up on Hyperterminal or your favorite RS-232 program. It's a required check of the cable.
By the way.. all of this can be bought at a local RadioShack and put together in 5-10 minutes for less than $15 or so. Or, bought from a SDR-Cube group member for $15 already done. I recommend the upgrade to 1.01.. it fixed almost all of the minor nitpicks the group has had so far with the software. Points to Juha on that..
Cheers for now.
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