[WriteLog] UPDATE - Winkey USB CW keyer and WL?

[Jerry Flanders]

I have my WKUSB working with Writelog now. It was working all along, but mute.

For those running up against this problem in the future reading the 
archives: When WL establishes contact with the K1EL WKUSB CW keyer 
(perhaps other Winkey / Winkeyer versions as well), it silences the 
WKUSB internal speaker, so you have no clue that it is working unless 
you have fully wired it up to the rig and the rig is on in active CW 
mode. The memory buttons appear to have gone dead, but that is only 
because the speaker is mute.

You won't learn anything about this in the WL "documentation". My 
search of the reflector archives didn't turn it up either.

Thanks to ZL2AL for pointing this out after I contacted him 
concerning his eham posting.

Jerry W4UK

 >An aside: I installed it within N1MM and all is OK, so all my 
software interconnects appear >OK. I hate to have to learn another 
program interface, though, and would much prefer to >get it working with WL.
 >
 >Still looking for help.
 >
 >Jerry
 >
At 01:46 PM 9/10/2008, Jerry Flanders wrote:
>Thanks to all who helped, both privately and here.
>
>My Commslot commands work OK. Someone mentioned using a "winkey 2"
>selection in setup - I only have a winkey type available. You guys
>that have it working - is it Winkey, or Winkey 2?
>
>I have tried setting it up on 3 different computers, with two
>different versions of WL (latest 10.62H, Jan 2007), and still no joy.
>Since the revision history at the WL site does not mention any
>changes to Winkey support (other than a PTT enhancement) since my
>version, I assume my version should be OK for this.
>
>Jerry W4UK
>
>At 01:15 PM 9/10/2008, Alan Maenchen wrote:
> >Jerry,
> >
> >I'm using a laptop with WL and WinKey working just fine.  Here I'm running
> >V1067B .. I always keep one or two releases behind and let the others find
> >the bugs first.  :-)
> >
> >Anyway, due to the USB dongle I use for rig control I've set the COM ports
> >to be 5, 6, 7, and 8.  The dongle comes up on COM5 and the WinKey comes up
> >on COM7 just naturally.
> >
> >I set the following in writelog.ini
> >
> >[PORTS]
> >CommSlot1=5
> >CommSlot2=6
> >CommSlot3=7
> >CommSlot4=8
> >
> >It all seems to work fine .. and no more CW stuttering !!
> >I dont know if there is a limit for WL in terms of CommSlot=37 or
> >whatever...  I didn't have to face that issue.
> >
> >
> >73, Al  AD6E
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Message: 1
> > > Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:55:50 -0400
> > > From: Jerry Flanders <jeflanders at comcast.net>
> > > Subject: [WriteLog] Winkey USB CW keyer and WL?
> > > To: writelog at contesting.com
> > > Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.0.20080909115408.0418d480 at comcast.net>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
> > >
> > > I am trying to get my new K1EL WKUSB working with V10.61E Writelog.
> > >
> > > I had serial port 3 unused, so set the WKUSB to use that, and then
> > > set WL to key on comm 3 with Winkey specified as the key type. No joy.
> > >
> > > All the manager and test programs that came with WKUSB control the
> > > keyer FB through this comm 3 address.
> > >
> > > I see Winkey listed in WL as a CW keying option, but I see no
> > > reference to the USB version of winkey.
> > >
> > > Do I need a newer version of WL to support WKUSB (there is no mention
> > > of changed WKUSB support in the current WL revision history)?
> > >
> > > Anybody?
> > >
> > > Jerry W4UK
> > >