Jack The W5XD Multi Keyer provides a solution to this. With a single com port connection to it you can generate CW, control your radio's frequency, and provide the equivalent LPT output for band switching.
This works with WriteLog, but unfortunately you do not support it in DXBase2002. Maybe its in the hopper for DXBase2003? I ran with this in last weekend's CW contest with WriteLog, but when I tried to access it from DXB2002 I could only do radio control and CW. To do both I had to use one COM port for the CW and a second COM port for radio control, but in this configuration the antenna switching in the W5XD Multi Keyer is not supported (as far as I can tell). Ron N5IN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ron Stordahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "DXBase" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [DXBase] Antenna switching using LPT > Ron, > > This is true and will only become more restrictive. Some companies make > special drivers to try and get around this, but even they are becoming > difficult options and prone to failure. Just look at the postings about > folks trying to make CW work on new systems with the new derived serial > ports and you quickly realize that hardware is changing. The only solution > that I see for the future is that the makers of ham oriented devices are > going to have to change their mindsets and start writing their interfaces in > compliance with the Windows hardware architecture. Traditionally, ham > devices use the bully approach by setting leads in peculiar ways, turning > leads on and off at the hardware UART level and so forth. Those practices > have always been non standard but it could be forced to work. Nowadays, the > OS and hardware are not so forgiving. > > Just my two cents. > > Jack > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Stordahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "DXBase" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 10:38 AM > Subject: [DXBase] Antenna switching using LPT > > > > I have heard that with Windows XP the user programs do not have sufficient > > control control over the LPT ports to allow using them for antenna > > selection. > > > > Can anyone verify this? > > > > Ron N5IN > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > >
