[WriteLog] CW keying with WL

[Jim Rhodes]

Whoops! I better tell mine to cut that out. It just keeps plugging along 
with the opto on LPT1.
It should know better. ;-)


At 02:53 PM 10/22/03, George Johnson wrote:
>Doug,
>You can add transistor keying to either the parallel port or a serial Com 
>port.  The parallel port will not directly drive an optoisolator but the 
>serial port will.  I would recommend the transistor and use whichever type 
>of port you have available.  The parallel port is a little easier IMHO.
>
>73, George .. W1ZT
>
>At 02:10 PM 10/22/2003, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>I'm not a CW op, but want to try using WL for CW RX and TX.
>>The RX is easy with my current set up, but I'm not sure what's the
>>easiest way to add CW TX.  Apparently, there's no provision for
>>sending CW from the sound card.  It looks as if adding an optoisolator
>>or transistor to LPT pin 16 is the next easiest way to do this.
>>
>>Or is there something I'm missing?
>>
>>73, doug
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