[WriteLog] SO2R CW Keying

[Dave Hachadorian]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: "WriteLog Reflector" <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:17 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] SO2R CW Keying


> Hi Crew,
>
> I've been using WriteLog for three years now, and have 
> always used
> serial port keying. No problems. Now, I'm working on 
> getting SO2R
> going for the first time, and would like to do it without 
> adding
> external boxes. That is, just WriteLog and two serial port 
> hookups
> that do both control and keying. I tried this a few weeks 
> ago, using
> two serial ports, with a separate connection to each 
> radio. I could
> key either radio, but not both. And, of course, maybe it 
> was cockpit
> error. I didn't have time to pursue it then, but I would 
> like to now.
>
> I'm working from an IBM laptop that has one "real" serial 
> port, and
> an additional serial port from a Quatech PCMCIA adapter, 
> and that
> port works fine for both control and sending CW. That 
> laptop also has
> a parallel port available, but I would rather stick to 
> serial if I
> can. Is there a way to do this?

Do your rigs support PTT via rs-232 command? If so, maybe 
you can just "T" the cw keying line to both rigs, turn off 
the two vox's, and control which one actually transmits by 
the serial ptt command. I've never tried it, but it should 
work.


Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ