FSUIPC, Frequency changes and RealityXP

[dougwells]

Hi Pete,

I've been using a registered copy of FSUIPC and WideFS for the past 3 months to hook up my RW handheld GPS (SkyPad) to FSX. Works so great! Thank you.

Here is my question. I use the RealityXP 430 gauge in my planes and from day one I have had an issue setting frequencies. I might want to change from 122.70 to 122.80. When I start changing the frequency, the display shows the frequency changing back and forth from what was there originally to the new frequency I am trying to set. Jean-Luc at RealityXP has been great and has been trying to fix this bug for some time.

Today, he asked me the question below. I'm not sure how to check and see if I have 50khz or 25khz selected in FSUIPC. I know what this is (frequency spacing) but where/how would I check this so that I can report back to Jean-Luc?

Thanks again for a great product and the wonderful tech support you provide us all. Frankly, I don't know how you do it. You must never sleep!

Doug

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Post from Jean-Luc to me... (http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_p175#187175)

Doug, do you use FSUIPC? is this setting still present in FSUIPC and do you use it:

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Make NAV freq increment = 50KHz: It seems that, in FS2002 for the first time, the NAV radios are tunable to 25KHz frequencies, like the COM radios. Thus the increment/decrement is 25KHz instead of 50KHz. This can cause some difficulty with cockpit designs suited to the current actual 50KHz spacing, so FSUIPC provides this option to force NAV radio frequencies to abide by 50KHz spacing (.00 .05 .10 .15 … .95).

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The logic for the radios is very simple (I can even show the code here for the C++ savy). It basically do this: it syncs FS and GNS radios through a middle man (MM):

1) compare FS radios with the MM. If FS is different than MM, it then

a) copy FS to MM

b) update GNS radios with MM frequencies

otherwise

2) compare FS radios with GNS radios. If FS radios different than GNS then:

a) copy GNS to MM

b) update FS radios with MM frequencies

The only thing I'm looking at right now, is that to "READ" the FS radios I'm using XML variables. However, to "WRITE" FS radios I'm using C/C++ actions. Either sometimes, or on some systems, the XML variables and the C variables are not updated right away at the same time (bouncing back and forth), or, it takes sometime to write the variables (I'm using send_key_event but I'll change to trigger_key_event for immediate action to see)

Stay tuned.

Jean-Luc

[Pete Dowson]

Here is my question. I use the RealityXP 430 gauge in my planes and from day one I have had an issue setting frequencies. I might want to change from 122.70 to 122.80. When I start changing the frequency, the display shows the frequency changing back and forth from what was there originally to the new frequency I am trying to set. Jean-Luc at RealityXP has been great and has been trying to fix this bug for some time.

Is FSUIPC involved in this somehow? I know RealityXP don't use FSUIPC.

Today, he asked me the question below. I'm not sure how to check and see if I have 50khz or 25khz selected in FSUIPC. I know what this is (frequency spacing) but where/how would I check this so that I can report back to Jean-Luc?

Didn't you think of looking in the FSUIPC Options on screen, or perhaps in the supplied User Guide? It's a checkbox on the Miscellaneous tab marked "Make NAV freq increment = 50KHz", and explained in the relevant section in the documentation. I didn't think it was that obscurely labelled. ;-)

Regards

Pete

[kremin]

Didn't you think of looking in the FSUIPC Options on screen, or perhaps in the supplied User Guide? It's a checkbox on the Miscellaneous tab marked "Make NAV freq increment = 50KHz", and explained in the relevant section in the documentation. I didn't think it was that obscurely labelled. ;-)

Hello Peter,

I wonder if I could butt in here and take you up on the quoted statement? I'm relatively new to FSX and I had occasion the other day to change the frequency increment of a nav radio. I remembered from FSUIPC3 that I could click a box in the Options screen so I called up my (registered) FSUIPC4 Options screen and.....surprise, shock, horror, there is no such option in version 4. I'd call it "very obscurely labelled" if it is there - or perhaps I and others are missing something here?

I would be grateful for your comments (I'm ready to be severely embarrassed :oops: ), and of course thanks for a great product and great support.

best regards

Rick Canham

South Australia

[Pete Dowson]

I remembered from FSUIPC3 that I could click a box in the Options screen so I called up my (registered) FSUIPC4 Options screen and.....surprise, shock, horror, there is no such option in version 4. I'd call it "very obscurely labelled" if it is there - or perhaps I and others are missing something here?

Ah, sorry. In my haste to reply to as many outstanding questions as possibly before departing on holiday that Friday, I never noticed it was for FSX. :oops: :oops: :oops:

No, there is no such option in FSX and therefore no way for FSUIPC to change it. FSX operates correctly and has the right frequency interval for the time it was released. The old option was for previous times, dating back as far as FSW95.

Regards

Pete

[kremin]

Hi Pete,

For my part thanks very much for the info - we learn something new every day that's for sure.

All the best for Christmas and the New Year

regards

Rick