[WriteLog] Writelog recording levels

[Gary AL9A]

Joe,

Thanks for the follow up.  I appreciate you checking out WL with Vista for 
me.  I have already written back to Wayne assuring him that I did have voice 
recording ability under Vista from a single sound card.  Before getting the 
MK II I used a Rigblaster Plus interface and used the internal sound chip in 
my Dell Inspiron 1720.  Since putting the MK II in the mix I have also used 
the microHAM sound card in the MK II with success.

I did notice one SSB contest a while ago where some of my recordings 
suddenly went blank, then started up again.  I was stumped at the time as I 
didn't think RFI was the problem, but now after rethinking things over I'm 
guessing that Vista apparently got into the act and muted the microphone 
CODEC for some reason and then unmuted it sometime later.  I didn't notice 
it until after the contest, so was unaware it happened until I tried to play 
back some segments of the contest recording and found they were missing.

Glad to hear the impending changes with WL will not cause me to lose the 
record ability.

73,
Gary AL9A


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <lists at subich.com>
To: <writelog at contesting.com>; <al9a at mtaonline.net>
Sent: July 04, 2010 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Writelog recording levels


>
> Gary,
>
> > Let me make sure I understand. You currently are running Vista and
> > WriteLog works OK with a single sound board on it? I didn't think it
> > would work properly at all. It certainly does not work reliably on a
> > Win7 system that has multiple sound boards, even if you only want
> > WriteLog to use one of them.
>
> Let me amplify what Wayne has said and let you know that the current
> beta test version of Writelog works very well with microKEYER II in
> both Vista and Windows 7.  I had previously checked it only in Win 7
> but loaded it on my Vista/64 platform and connected a microKEYER II
> this weekend and there are no problems with the audio that I can
> find.
>
> You will be able to record "off air" using microHAM CODEC Line In,
> and record DVK wave files with microHAM CODEC "Mic."  WriteLog
> appears to be able to switch between the two inputs at will and
> you can change a wave file "on the fly" using Shift-Fn.  All of my
> testing was done using a foot switch for manual transmit and PTT
> from Writelog for DVK transmit.  I do not use VOX so I did not do
> any experimenting with it.
>
> I do not see any reason that the original microKEYER will not work
> the same way for those using an older "three port" (separate mic
> and line input) sound card unless the sound card lacks working
> drivers for Vista/Windows 7.
>
> 73,
>
>    ... Joe Subich, W4TV
>        microHAM America, LLC.
>        http://www.microHAM-USA.com
>        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/microHAM
>
>
> On 7/1/2010 10:24 PM, W. Wright, W5XD wrote:
>> Gary:
>>> As a Vista user I have mixed emotions about the coming change to 
>>> WriteLog.
>>> It will be great to get more control over the audio in Vista, but I hate 
>>> to
>>
>>> lose the "Echo Microphone" capability of recording both TX and RX from a
>>> single sound board.
>>
>> Let me make sure I understand. You currently are running Vista and 
>> WriteLog
>> works OK with a single sound board on it? I didn't think it would work
>> properly at all. It certainly does not work reliably on a Win7 system
>> that has multiple sound boards, even if you only want WriteLog to use
>> one of them.
>>
>> If it IS working for you, you'll be able to manually circumvent the 
>> changes
>> that will happen in the 10.77 install. All the old code in WL that 
>> supports
>> XP and earlier is installed regardless of OS (and the same for the new
>> code--old OS's get the new code as well). The only change you as a Vista
>> user will see is WL's Sound Board Mixer control will be replaced with
>> one that is appropriate for Vista. But the executable for the old control
>> will still be in the \Programs folder and both of them simply manipulate
>> writelog.ini entries. If, on a Vista system, you find and run the old
>> executable, then WriteLog will continue to manipulate the sound board
>> levels and mixers the way it always has done. And if that was working
>> on your Vista system before, then it should continue to work. (But I have
>> to ask again: if it ever worked on Vista for you, I would like a
>> confirmation.)
>>
>> People may want to know when 10.77 is coming out. The answer
>> is "real soon now". It will be sold by WriteLog Contesting Software, LLC,
>> which is owned by myself and Steve, N9OH. But we do not yet have all
>> the appropriate government permits w.r.t. sales taxes, etc. etc. etc.
>>
>> Wayne, W5XD
>>
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