[WriteLog] Keying Two Rigs

Jerry Flanders jeflanders at comcast.net
Sat Aug 7 13:35:05 EDT 2004


Consider two networked computers. Lots of serial ports and even redundant 
logs. Computer crash doesn't shut you down. Lots of us run that way, and a 
second computer can be cheaper than all that external specialized SO2R 
hardware.

Jerry W4UK

At 16:49 8/7/04, Barry Merrill wrote:
>I'm really bummed out, 'cause it looks like that an external
>keyer is an absolute requirement to have two radios with
>WriteLog.
>
>I have used COM1 to both Key and Rig Control the ICOM 756PROII.
>I found I needed to use two COM ports for the Orion, one for keying,
>and one for rig control.
>Now, I want to control both radios, key/rig on COM1 for ICOM,
>Key Orion on COM2, Rig Control Orion on COM3,
>but I can see no way to set up that configuration.
>
>The Port Selection for Keying only allows one COM port to
>be selected, with no way to key Radio 1 on COM 1 when radio 1
>is active, and to key Radio 2 on a different Com Port..
>
>Any hope/help or must I have an external keyer?
>
>Does any other contest program provide the facilities I want?
>
>73
>
>Barry, W5GN
>
>
>
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