Brian,
Have you tried entering CW_ON_PIN1=1 under the [PORTS] section of your
writelog.ini file?
73,
Alan N5NA
----- Original Message -----
From: <n3oc@wirelessinc.com>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:37 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] CW keying suddenly erratic HELP!
> Hi, I am pretty desperate for some help in getting LPT CW keying to work
again
> with writelog.
>
> It has worked just fine for a long time, then when I went out of the
country a
> couple months ago for a contest I discovered it is now erratic - sort of
sounds
> like what it is supposed to, but very broken up and erratic. CT keys just
fine
> (had to use it for the contest because of this) so I know my hardware is
OK.
>
> In addition, all the other parts of writelog work fine, the voice keyer
via the
> sound card is fine, the rig interface is fine, and rtty is fine. Only
think
> broke is CW via the LPT port, which was just fine until recently.
>
> The laptop's OS in Windows ME (okay okay I know ME is funny, but the LPT
keying
> has worked FINE for a long time!) and the Writelog version is 10.34B.
>
> Yes, I have installed some other various non-ham related software over the
last
> year, but nothing I can put my finger on that would do this. I bring up
the
> task manager and kill off just about every other task that is running, and
it
> still does not work.
>
> I have tried many things over the past couple months, including
re-installing
> Writelog, and running Windows setup on top of the old install to see if it
> updated or repaired any files. Nothing seems to help.
>
> I have even tried changing the LPT port type in the cmos setup from
Standard,
> to ECP, to EPP and that does not help either.
>
> And I have reviewed the reflector archives, I see others have had some
issues
> here but none seem quite the same as this.
>
> I am at the end of the rope here, I hate to give up on Writelog but I just
> don't know what else to try, and other programs that use LPT keying like
CT and
> DX4WIN work just fine, so I really doubt I have a hardware issue.
>
> HELP!!!!
>
> Brian N3OC
>
>
>
>
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