[CQ-Contest] [WriteLog] K1EL Winkeyer USB Problems

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GOOD JOB.  I woas working on adding a new club call to my existing  
WinKeyer and was having no luck.  My friend Jerry  Immediately spotted  the 
problem. I was using WINkeyer2 program and he reminded me I must use the  WK2MGR 
program.  Instant  fix..yea!!    
 
Tom

N6AJR
 
 
 
In a message dated 11/20/2009 1:48:22 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
jmaass at k8nd.com writes:


No  longer than 15 minutes after posting, I found the solution here. 

The  good news (to me!) is that I have resolved the problem. Seems that 
when  the batteries were removed, the battery jumper was not moved to 
power the  WK from USB. 

No power = No Winkeyer. 

The bad nes is, my  troubleshooting procedure was flawed, focusing more 
on reports than the  problem sitting in front of me. Lesson learned!

Two stations are up now  and working OK, two more will be fixed in short 
order and tested, and I  should be able to hit Topband and 80 meters 
tonight rather than pulling  out hairs like last night!

I may even go out and watch the sunset over  the Caribbean from our 
37-foot location above the water!

Thanks for  the replies!


73,  Jeff PJ2/K8ND


Quoting  jmaass at k8nd.com:
>
>
> I am tracking down a problem at PJ2T.  We have used Winkeyer USB devices 
with
> Writelog for several years, and  suddenly cannot get the Winkeyers to 
> work. This
> is an issue  on three stations where they worked previously: not an 
initial
> install  problem. 
>
> In the WKtest utility, when the "Open Wk" button is  clicked, the 
> respose is "WK
> Fal: no echo." In writelog, the  CW speed box says "Timeout".  The 
Winkeyer is
> recognized by  Wiindows as a "USB Serial Port" when plugged in.  Yes, 
> the  correct
> port is slected for each (COM3 in this case).  This is on  two XP 
machines and
> one Win98SE2 machine, all of which had used the  Winkeyers previously 
without
> problem. 
>
> I uninstalled  and reinstalled the FTDI drivers (twice) on one of the PCs 
last
> night,  reinstalling using the executable for that purpose downloaded from
>  K1EL.com in the Winkeyer CD archive. No joy. 
>
> Since the last  time the were used successfully, copies of Win-Test were
> installed to  each of the PCs at the stations. We don't know that this is 
a
> possible  cause, but the timeline suggests that it (or some change made
>  coincident with it) may be. 
>
> Has anyone exoperienced something  similar? Any ideas?
>
> I'd really rather be  on-the-air!
>
>
> 73,  PJ2/K8ND ("Curacao  Jeff")



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