[WriteLog] K1EL Winkeyer USB Problems

[jmaass at k8nd.com]

No longer than 15 minutes after posting, I found the solution here. 

The good news (to me!) is that I have resolved the problem. Seems that 
when the batteries were removed, the battery jumper was not moved to 
power the WK from USB. 

No power = No Winkeyer. 

The bad nes is, my troubleshooting procedure was flawed, focusing more 
on reports than the problem sitting in front of me. Lesson learned!

Two stations are up now and working OK, two more will be fixed in short 
order and tested, and I should be able to hit Topband and 80 meters 
tonight rather than pulling out hairs like last night!

I may even go out and watch the sunset over the Caribbean from our 
37-foot location above the water!

Thanks for the replies!


73,  Jeff PJ2/K8ND


Quoting jmaass at k8nd.com:
>
>
> I am tracking down a problem at PJ2T. We have used Winkeyer USB devices with
> Writelog for several years, and suddenly cannot get the Winkeyers to 
> work. This
> is an issue on three stations where they worked previously: not an initial
> install problem. 
>
> In the WKtest utility, when the "Open Wk" button is clicked, the 
> respose is "WK
> Fal: no echo." In writelog, the CW speed box says "Timeout".  The Winkeyer is
> recognized by Wiindows as a "USB Serial Port" when plugged in.  Yes, 
> the correct
> port is slected for each (COM3 in this case).  This is on two XP machines and
> one Win98SE2 machine, all of which had used the Winkeyers previously without
> problem. 
>
> I uninstalled and reinstalled the FTDI drivers (twice) on one of the PCs last
> night, reinstalling using the executable for that purpose downloaded from
> K1EL.com in the Winkeyer CD archive. No joy. 
>
> Since the last time the were used successfully, copies of Win-Test were
> installed to each of the PCs at the stations. We don't know that this is a
> possible cause, but the timeline suggests that it (or some change made
> coincident with it) may be. 
>
> Has anyone exoperienced something similar? Any ideas?
>
> I'd really rather be on-the-air!
>
>
> 73,  PJ2/K8ND ("Curacao Jeff")