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Re: [WriteLog] Problem with WriteLog and WinKey?

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Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Problem with WriteLog and WinKey?
From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 13:22:46 -0600
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WL apparently always resets its speed to the nearest stepped value,
regardless of the actual pot value.

- Jim

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C<jjreisert@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Thanks, Joe:
>
> Current Speed = 25
> Speed Pot = 24
>
> - Jim
>
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV <lists@subich.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:20 AM, K0HB<kzerohb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Writelog-via-urouter over-rides the front panel pot.  (As far as I
>> > > know, it always did.)
>>
>> No, Router is not overriding WriteLog.  WriteLog implements the
>> "pot lock" mode in WinKey and current versions of Router respect
>> the application's settings.
>>
>> In "pot lock" mode, WinKey (and Router) reports changes in the
>> speed pot setting to the application.  It is the responsibility of
>> the application to explicitly set the WinKey CW speed.  WriteLog
>> sets the speed in the discrete preprogrammed steps.  The current
>> implementation of Router is no different than Writelog with a
>> K1EL WinKeyer 2 or WinKey USB alone.
>>
>> > Write Log (at the bottom) now says 24 WPM, but the actual speed
>> > coming out of the keyer jumps by several WPM.  There's a disconnect
>> > somewhere between the speed that Write Log reports, and the one
>> > it's actually sending at.
>>
>> CW speed is responsibility of the application.  Enable the WinKey
>> monitor in Router to see what the WriteLog is sending to the
>> WinKey.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>>   ... Joe, W4TV

-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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