Hi Al

I applied your suggestion , unfortunately it didn't work , my receiver side has an IF ..THEN statement looking for the number 23, and implementing your suggestion on the TX side only doesn't seem to send the correct DEC 23 to the RX so the IF condition is never met ...check my receiver side code for clarification.
To confirm , I only left the DEC modifier on the receiver side.. (please note though that at the receiver side I have hserin and hserout statements using the DEC modifier.
I placed your code suggestion on the TX of the first PIC only ..so it looks something like this
TX ----------- hyoerterminal
TX ------RF----- RX
PIC1 PIC2

Will bash around with it a little more and see what comes of it :-)
I'll post result back as soon as I have double checked each step too.

kind regards

Dennis