[WriteLog] Sound card to Sound card problem

[Richard Thorne]

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Hello Group:

I'm doing some experimenting with my remote controlled station and
getting ready for Nov SS this weekend.  Heres the setup with two pc's:

PC one running my remote controlled station.  I'm using a PC mic to get
audio to my rig, via the sound card, using Skype audio software.

PC two is running Writelog.

I'm feeding the speaker out of PC #2 to the mic input of PC #1.  I can
send ssb messages generated by writelog to my remote rig.

Heres the problem.  I plugged in a y adapter in the mic input of pc # 1.
I then connected my pc mic to one part of the y and the speaker out of
pc # 2 to the other y.  When I attempt to use the pc mic I cannot send
audio to the rig.  If I remove the connecton from pc # 2 's speaker out
the mic will then work.

Any ideas why I can't have both plugged into my mic input at the same
time?  For what its worth I'm using an audio transformer between the two
sound cards as I had heavy distortion without it.

The idea here is to use writelog to send my canned cq message and use
the pc mic for everything else.

Thanks in advance.


Rich Thorne
ARS: N5ZC
AMA: N5ZC
Amarillo, TX