[WriteLog] Rig Ctrl and CW on same serial port

[N6KJ]

First off, let me say that tonight I cannot reproduce the problem.
What a shock :-)  

Why did I do a "Y" adapter.  Because I already had a DB9-to-phono
cable that worked.  Rather than split off the DTR and GND and run them
to an audio cable I decided to split them off to a DB9 jack and use my
existing DB9-to-phone cable.  Six of one and half a dozen of the other.
I could have gone either way.

I already checked for shorts.  There are none.  

I brought a breakout box home from work today, but now I can't reproduce
the problem.  I tried it tonight on 2 machines: a desktop and a laptop and
now I can't reproduce it.  

Everything is working fine now.  I know I saw that behavior (and no, I
wasn't drinking last night), but it's working now.  




On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 04:37:09 +0000, K4SB wrote:

> 
> N6KJ wrote:
> > Yesterday I built a DB9
> > "Y" adapter so I could do rig control and CW keying on a single COM port
> > since I need to use my "serial port deficient" laptop for an upcoming
> > contest.
> 
> Whoa...OK, think I see the problem. I would check and recheck that "Y"
> connector to make sure there's not a short from one line to another. 
> And I'm curious why you built the connector in the first place, Yes,
> one is needed for rig control, but you should have been able to just
> come out with a 2 wire audio cable for the cw jack.
> 
> Let me know more about the entire cable.
> 
> 73
> Ed