flotulopex, What terminal emulator program are you using? Assuming you are using a 4Mhz. oscillator and some kind of inverting RS-232 driver you should be seeing the string being sent. I would first make sure the terminal emulator program is set for the correct baud rate. If the terminal emulator program is receiving any characters, even at the wrong baudrate you will be detecting some kind of count.

Dave Purola,
N8NTA