[WriteLog] LPT ports

[Jerry Pixton]

All,

Yesterday, I stepped into this morass also.  As you know I have the IC756 
Pro II, to CT-17 to W5XD Keyer and from its output port to my Top Ten 
decoder for my antenna filter switching. I still have not found the problem 
with the relays sometimes coming unswitched at the end of my transmission. 
So I decided for the wpx to try the Parallel Port instead to get the 
Antenna Relay band data.

So I installed User Port following the advice recently published. Installed 
the driver, ran the userport.exe, changed the writelog ini file for LPT1 
address.

After several reboots, while trying to setup the ports for antenna relay, I 
seem to have it working. But I have both LPT1 and LPT2 (don't have such a 
physical port) showing up in Writelog. LPT1 does seem to provide band data 
for antenna switching. But the physical port device is still showing the 
Microsoft Driver not the userport driver?

Also in the ini file example, writelog.ini[Ports] it shows -

AntRelayonLpt3=YES,1
AntRelayonLpt1=YES

What is the "1" parameter? What does it do for me?

In my ini, I added the line

LPT1=0x378

and Writelog added after Setup, Ports the line

AntRelayonLpt1=YES,1

Jerry, W6IHG


At 09:40 AM 2/7/2005 -0500, Robert Garceau wrote:
>After reading all the comments on LPT keying, or lack thereof with writelog
>under Windows XP, I have been dragging my feet to get this chore completed.
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>Yesterday, I ordered the Direct I/O software and today I got the password
>Key.
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>Shocking.  It took less than 10 minutes. CW keying works like a charm.
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Dr. Jerry R. Pixton, PIXOS Designs LLC
http://www.pixos.com/designs/RadioTuner/
jpixton at shentel.net
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