Chris Kirtley wrote: ......... Equally, though, as you rightly point out, we >need a high clock speed to download the data as quickly as possible - >well I assume we do. The bandwith of the transmitter (Linx LC) is 5kHz, >so I suppose that allows only 6 clock cycles between each bit. The >transmission is actually done by the on-board UART, but this still would >not leave enough clock cycles to do the rest of teh stuff, I guess. Tell >me if my reasoning is incorrect - I'm learning - slowly, I know :-) > Just a point of information [to help clog the ole memory banks] - when running a PIC off a 32 Khz xtal, you can just barely get it to clock RS-232 at 1200 baud, if the uart is done in s.w. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics