[ct-user] Paddle input with CT-Win 10.04?

[Albert Woodhull]

After a false start I did the RTFM thing and realized that CT-Win CW keying does not work through a COM port.  But I got it working through the LPT port on my old but still good Compaq Presario 1700 laptop running Windows XP.  For my next step I wanted  to add paddle input. I connected the paddles to pins 12 and 13 of the LPT port, with 10K pullups to pin 14, and a voltmeter shows the voltage at these pins is getting pulled down properly when the paddles are operated, but CT-Win is not responding. I'd appreciate help or suggestions from anybody. Things that come to mind are, (a) possibly there is some additional configuration of the LPT port needed, or (b) maybe there is a reason it just will not work on this model laptop.


Slowly I'm coming into the 21st century. I'm not yet aspiring to any more advanced kind of rig control than c.w. keying and I fear some day I'll have to move up to N1MM or Win-Test. But I like and know how to use CT and hope I can keep up with it until I have to give up on Windows XP.

Thanks in advance for any advice,

Al, N1AW


Albert S. Woodhull
Leyden, Massachusetts
Amateur Radio: N1AW