You can do this by making additions in the writelog.ini file such
as Com5=Com2
Com6=Com4
and this works well!
There is plenty of information on this in the users guide.
73 de -=Rog-K9RB=-
----- Original Message -----
From: <Zoltan.Pitman@libertel.nl>
To: <w5xd@writelog.com>; <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 5:34 AM
Subject: [WriteLog] Radio on COM5 or COM6?
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I want to give a try to SO2R with Writelog in the Russian DX and
am
> struggling with the radio setup. I use is a Compaq E500 notebook
(P3/600)
> with W95. The computer has an IR port configured as COM3. I have
an Argosy
> 2-port PCMCIA serial card. The Argosy card works fine but
regardless
> whatever I do it comes up to COM5 or COM6. I tested the ports
with loopback
> and TNC's. They work fine.
>
> However I can't set up my second radio to any higher than COM4
in WL! I see
> two options for solving that:
>
> - Moving the com ports of the PCMCIA serial extender to COM2 and
COM4
> - Enabling higher COM ports in Writelog for radio setup than
COM4
>
> The first option I tried to work out myself and failed. Even if
I disabled
> the IR port from COM3, I couldn't move the ports of the PCMCIA
off
> COM5/COM6. Please, do you have any idea how to do that?
>
> (I'd like to keep the IR operational if possible since it goes
to an
> Ericsson R520 GPRS mobile phone, which provides DX cluster.)
>
> The second option would require Wayne to add COM5-COM8 to the
radio port
> selection list as they are already on the selection list of the
TNC's.
> Wayne, what do you think about it, please?
>
> 73 de Zoli HA1AG
>
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