There is a small program called GSPEC available for free download at this
address:
http://www.mrx.com.au/
I used version 1.2, although there is a V2.0 beta on that site as well.
Install and run it and it will do basically the same thing WL does to your
sound board: continuously decode whatever is coming in the inputs. If you
try to bring GSPEC up while WL is running, GSPEC complains and exits, but if
you then exit WL and immediately bring up GSPEC, GSPEC will run with the
same settings as WL left on the sound board and give you a cool looking
visual display of the received audio.
If you let it run a few hours and discover that GSPEC dies the same horrible
death WL does, then ... (I hope you get the picture). If your system
survives this far, then try running the Windows Sound Recorder (keep GSPEC
running). Now use the Sound recorder to open a WAV file and play it back.
Your speakers should play back the sound. This tests that your board can
successfully receive and transmit simultaneously. Keep doing the transmits
as if you were in a contest for as long as you can stand (or as long as your
system generally stays alive when WL is driving your sound board).
In the future when you report problems with WL sound board support, I
request that the report be accompanied by a report of the number of hours
you have successfully run GSPEC on the same system, and the approximate
number of test transmissions you have made with Sound Recorder while GSPEC
was running.
Thanks,
Wayne, W5XD
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