[WriteLog] New Install Help

[Jim Harris]

Hi,

WL had been highly recommended to me by several serious contesters.  Having a bit of experience I had came to the conclusion I wanted a program that had some better and different features than some I've used.  So I recently bought and installed the program.  Immediately a major problem surfaced along with a giant irritant.

When selecting the radio and clicking OK in the ports setup my radio immediately goes into transmit.  The radio is an ICOM 746Pro and the interface is a Rigblaster Plug & Play USB to serial adapter that also has in and out audio isolation.  I'm using Windows XP Home on a home built computer.  This setup has worked well with several other contesting/logging and radio control programs.  The troubleshooting section of the Rigblasters manual says the RTS and/or DTR is being maintained high by the software.  The manual also states the Rigblaster has been found to work with 100 software programs without problems.  I really don't want to buy anymore hardware as this setup has worked for me for nearly a year with other software.  Anyone have any ideas?

The giant irritant is the fact there is not a set of "F" buttons with macro names for use with a mouse.  Every other amateur radio software program I've used has had that and never had a reason to suspect that WL would not.  I just simply cannot imagine a program with the reputation that WL has would not have such a feature.  It seems one is reduced to making a "F" key cheat sheet with "F" keys and their functions and then pounding the keyboard all day and all night thru a contest.  Not my idea of fun at all.

73,

Jim, AB0UK