[WriteLog] poor PC Generated cw

[Lfelker at aol.com]

I also had trouble using the micorham usb interface with Writelog this  
weekend.  I ended up downloading the virtual device router and creating  separate 
com ports for cw and rig control.  That arrangement worked  fine.
 
Lex
N4LF
 
In a message dated 11/9/2004 11:47:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
k3sv at direcway.com writes:

Apparently, several people are having this problem with the MicroHam  USB
interface. I've been trying to figure it out for weeks. I have tried  a
multitude of settings and terminated everything I can think of while  running
Writelog. The best I've been able to do is minimize the occurence.  It seems
like there is activity in the USB ballpark that will occasionally  correspond
with you sending CW. It would appear that if we can stop  the
"paging/polling" of the USB port by the computer we can prevent the  jumbled
CW. I have had strings of contacts without an error, then all of  the sudden,
"junk" for a couple of contacts and then it clears up.  Frustrating, knowing
that no two computers are the same once you open the  box and start doing
"your" thing. If you watch the MicroHam USB interface  when installed and
running Writelog, (you assign both the CW keying and the  rig control to the
same USB/Serial port) polling the radio is evidenced by  the light on the USB
interface blinking. When you send CW, the  polling/blinking stops (as does
the "CAT" blinking on the rig). This tells  me "you can't do both at the same
time", or at least you can't do them at  the same time "all of the time". I'm
no expert and I'm not "knocking" the  interface, it just doesn't work as you
would think and there's no obvious  way to get it to work.

Fearing that I would be in the middle of SSCW  last weekend and have a
problem, I ran Userport which added an LPT port to  Writelog and had no
hiccups. By-the-way, I am running XP (without SP2  installed) on a relatively
late model machine.

73 Bill K3SV
-----  Original Message ----- 
From: <WB3LGC at aol.com>
To:  <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 9:42  PM
Subject: [WriteLog] poor PC Generated cw


> I tried to play  in the SS this past weeekend.  Things worked ok at the
> beginning,  but after 30 odd contacts, the PC generated cw became
"jumbled"?   It
> din't matter if I typed or punched "F" keys.  I am guessing  the speed of
the pc?
> It is a 333mhz machine (CPU useage seemed to  be less then 100%).  Since 25
wpm
> CW isn't my thing, it's no  big deal.  I thought some may want DE.  I was
> using a  MicroHam USB interface, into an orion w/tuner @ 100w.  It  didn't
matter
> the band, so I don't think RF in the shack (G5RV  antenna).  restarting
writelog,
> didn't help either.  any  ideas for the next time?
>
> 73, Steve  "A WB3LGC 78  DE"
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