Hi writeloggers,
Wanted to do 24 hours SS this weekend, but as usuual, my planning began too
late (Saturday morning) when I found that my USB to serial port adapter was not
recognized by my laptop. Then I remembered that my hard drive bit the dust and
was replaced with a new one over a year ago, and the driver was lost. I do not
have internet on my laptop at the new QTH without going to the library where
their filters might prevent a driver download anyway, so I went to Walmart and
bought a new adapter and installed the driver from the CD. It was now 2 hours
until the SS began. With the new adapter, the default port was COM 5 which
Writelog won't accept. Writelog appears to accept only ports 1-4. I tried
changing it and got a message at com ports 1, 2, 3, and 4 that they were all in
use, but how can that be? Nothing else, not even a printer, was connected. I
fulled around for an hour changing the adapter to the other USB port and at
times it appeared that com port 3 was available, but
no CW. I wondered if my HB transistor interface was working? Finally, it
started working an hour before the test. However, I quickly found, when the SS
began, that about every 3rd contact the CW speed would go from my designated 25
WPM to over 50. It appeared to be a random happening. It, and lack of sleep,
eventually wore me down, and I quit after 17 hours. What's wrong with my
setup? It worked FB with the previous USB to serial adapter a couple of years
ago.
Doug W0AH
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