[na-user]Lock Up on W9XT Card

[Tom Branch]

Hal,

I've had nothing but good support from Gary, W9XT.  When I first received my
card I had a problem with the installation.  Turned out to be a ground loop
on my end.  It was the night before a major contest and Gary gave me his
private home number to help me sort it out.  I was operational in time for
the contest.  I have a separate keyer for CW that I may install on LPT1 to
use during mixed-mode contests until we work this out.

The CW messages are not stored in the W9XT card's memory, but rather in NA.
That's why there is no problem when switching from SSB to CW.  Apparently
Windows 95 is doing something to the port that causes the W9XT card to
lock-up.

I'm not sure why I can't use the microphone under these conditions.  If I
switch back to SSB and just use the microphone--all is well.  Once I attempt
to use the W9XT card--nothing.  I'm guessing that whatever is happening
causes the relay to stay in the normally-closed state.  Since the PTT is on
another part of the circuit, it's not effected.  Just a theory...

73 de Tom, K4NR

-----Original Message-----
From: hal walchli <estelle@nb.net>
To: NA-USER@contesting.com <NA-USER@contesting.com>
Date: Monday, December 14, 1998 1:23 AM
Subject: Re:[na-user]Lock Up on W9XT Card


>
>I don't know if my problem is exactly same. When I first got the w9xt
>card about a year ago I found out that if the cw and phone ports were
>both LPT2 (as directed in the w9xt instructions) that,  in dual mode
>contests,  going from phone to cw and back to phone would wipe out all
>phone messages.  Simply switching to cw then back to phone without using
>the keyer did not erase the voice message. Using phone does not erase
>the CW messages.  The mike was useable even if memory was not but
>messages had to be input again after each switch. I emailed w9xt about
>this but never got a reply.  This was a big pain but the simple solution
>was to run the cw on a com port and the voice on LPT2 and there was no
>problem.  The problem is present from NA 10 on up and probably before.
>.  I assume that it is a memory conflict or a memory pointer problem I
>don't know if NA programming can fix the problem or if it is a card
>interface problem. Exiting to DOS from NA does not wipe the voice but if
>you reload and use cw memory first it does wipe out the voice message.



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