[WriteLog] New Install Help

[Jim Harris]

Hi to All,

Let me thank everyone who responded to my request for help.  There were many good suggestions and they are appreciated.  

To make a long story short I've been able to get my Rigblaster Plug & Play to work with WL for RTTY, BPSK and CW all thru the single interface including radio control.  There are 2-3 conditions that go along with making it work.  First, WL must be the active window rather than RTTYRite.  When selecting CW or changing from CW to another mode WL must be closed and restarted after the selection is made in RTTYRite.  Changees between RTTY and BPSK can be made without closing and reopening WL.  I also found that without using the save configuration at the bottom of the setup menu everytime the ports window is opened some of the settings revert to defaults.  

Concerning "F" keys on buttons for mouse use......  Two people suggested a plug-in program named FKeys that provide the functionality.  I've initially got it setup and it looks like it should work well for my needs.  Special thanks to those who suggested that direct use of the "F" keys would save contesting time. After thinking about it your point certainly will help me as I improve in contesting.

Now it's off to get all the needed macro's, memory buffers, or what ever they are called, in WL setup and tested.  Who knows maybe I can get into a contest in a few days.

Again my thanks to everyone who responded both on the reflector and privately and for all your great help.

73,

Jim, AB0UK  

>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.
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>73,
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>Jim, AB0UK
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