[WriteLog] Icom 756 and a Rascal

[Pat Cain, K0PC]

John,
Believe it or not, I have had a microphone connected to my 756.

I have had good luck using the following configuration:
- Microphone (Heil Proset) connected to the MIC input of the sound card
- Sound card LINE output connected to the 756 front panel microphone 
connector through an isolation transformer
- Use VOX instead of PTT on a com port to key the rig

You didn't say where you were feeding audio into the 756 but I have found 
that vox doesn't work when putting audio into the ACC1 connector on the 
back panel. I find VOX the easiest way to key the rig.

Let me know if I can help.

73,
Pat   K PC

At 10:57 AM 2/24/03 -0600, John Hoaglun wrote:
>I am a new user so please forgive me if this topic has already been
>discussed before....
>
>I am having a problem getting the voicekeyer function within WriteLog to key
>up my radio properly.
>
>Details:
>Icom 756
>Icom Serial controller on Com1
>Rascal sound card and PTT Interface on Com2
>Homemade CW keyer on LPT1 using a 2n2222.
>Windows XP Professional
>
>My Rascal card works fine with other software packages. I confirmed this
>several times with a couple of different pieces of software. (I use RoverLog
>for VHF rovering and it seems to work fine with this configuration.)
>
>What seems to happen is that when I configure the setup/ports it puts my
>radio into transmit and never drops the PTT line. I end up having to disable
>the sound card option in order to drop the PPT line.
>
>I would like to get this working before I try to get my CW keyer working. (I
>haven't even tested  the CW keyer with Writelog yet... but I would assume
>that it works since it seems to work with other software.)
>
>Any suggestions?  Does anyone have a simular configuration that can either
>send me a screen capture of their port set or ini file?
>
>I would like to get this working before the DX SSB contest this weekend.
>
>73
>
>John Hoaglun - MCSE
>KC0LBT - EN35
>http://www.hoaglun.com
>
>
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