Apologies for what I know are very dumb questions, but I can't seem to get
off the ground here.
I finally gave up on WF1B and ordered Writelog...downloaded it this morning,
and have been trying to get it to do something. So far, the only thing I
can get it to do is talk to the frequency control on my rig. I tried the CW
portion, but the best I can figure out is that you cannot use a LPT port for
CW under Windows ME. Is that right? Naturally, the only cable I have for
CW is wired for an LPT port, so I guess I'll stick to TR for the time being
when it comes to CW.
So then I tried to get into RTTY. Nothing doing; I cannot get writelog to
talk to my TNC. The TNC is a Kam+ connected to COM1. For a while, every
time I tried to select COM1, Writelog gave me a "COM port not available"
message. I did go into writelog.ini and set the port entry to:
COM1:=1200,n,8,1
There used to be a ",x" at the end of this line, but I deleted it. Thus the
entry now looks exactly like the entry in the tutorial. Anyway, somehow
during the course of my fiddling I got Writelog into a new mode. Now when I
try to tell it COM1, I get a message "Initializing Host Mode...Please Wait."
After a few seconds, RTTYwrite sez "Rttywrite failed to put KAM in host
mode. Please turn the KAM power off, then back on." I did that, and then I
go back to the above. I can do this all day, and the appearance is that
Writelog (or RTTYwrite) is just NOT going to talk to that TNC.
As I said, the only thing going right so far is that Writelog is able to
talk to my FT1000MP just fine through COM2. So how do I get it to talk to a
KAM through COM1?
Again, apologies for the bandwidth for really dumb questions. The first
time I ever saw Writelog in my life was about two hours ago.
Bruce, ZF2NT
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