[WriteLog] Problems with F key playbacks

[Tom Horton]

Barry,
  I will check ino this, but why did it work earlier in the afternoon?
That is what has me absolutely puzzled...
Will check this out tho...
Thanks, Tom






At 21:55 3/5/01 +0000, Barry Kutner wrote:
>Tom,
>I had something similar happen last year, when we did a M/S. My
>guess is, somehow, your audio files were saved in one directory,
>and it is looking for the files to play back in another directory. One
>way this can happen is if you "change operator." Go into
>.../ham/wavefiles. Are there a bunch of .wav files there? Is there a
>subdirectory with your callsign? Are the .wav files there?
>
>There is a param in writelog.ini called WaveFileLocation=
>I'll bet the file location is related to your problem.
>
>73 Barry W2UP
>
>On 5 Mar 01, Tom Horton wrote:
>
> >
> > I sent an "emergency" e-mail friday evening
> > when I couldn't get my voice keying to work.
> > I later realized that what I had sent did not get
> > close to explaining the problem that I was encountering.
> >   I will try to do this again with more definative data.
> >
> >   1.  I recorded the messages that I wanted to use and
> > assigned them to F-2,3,4,5 and 8.
> >   2.  They were all tested with a friend listening across the
> > river, and it all worked and sounded tolerable.
> >   3.  Exited the program and went downstairs for a while.
> >   4.  At the appropriate time, I came back and fired up the program
> > and started the contest.  I punched one of the function
> > keys and the transmitter keyed up, but there was no audio being
> > transmitted, thus no power out.
> >   5.  I immediately exited the program, powered down the computer,
> > brought it back up and re-entered the program. I went into the setup menu
> > and clicked on the SSB button, checked to make sure that the band was
> > set properly and then found a clear frequency and punched the
> > CQ function key and it worked. Unfortunately, I didn't get an answer
> > so I punched the button again and then it was back in the broken mode.
> > Transmitter keys but no audio....
> >   6. Was using the line output to drive the rig, so changed to the 
> speaker out,
> > but still nothing.
> >   7.  I could, however, hear the messages on the speaker from the sound 
> card
> > if it was plugged into either the line out or the speaker out.
> >   8.  I do not use an amplifier,so I think it doubtful that it is an RF
> > problem,especially
> > since it had worked earlier in the day.
> >
> >
> >
> >   I think that pretty well explains the situation. Does anyone have any
> > idea  or
> > ideas that can help. I'd like to use this feature in the WPX test.
> > Thanks,
> >   Tom K5IID
> >
> >
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