After years of inactivity on CW I'm trying to get my head and my station = setup back into the groove. Like lots of others, I'm having trouble = getting DXbase2003 to send CW. I've reviewed many of the archive posts = and tried several setting changes all to no avail.
I recently tried the suggestion from Larry, K2GN, from Nov. 03, 2003 = about using the drivers in CwType. I successfully installed CwType and = it keys the rig ok, as does Writelog, but DXbase remains obstinate. = Also tried the settings suggested by JV, KT4U, to no avail. By the way, = where is the RTS setting switch? I see a check box for DTR under both = the TNC tab and HF Radio tab, but have no idea where the RTS setting box = is located. Here is my setup: Radio is IC-756PRO Computer is Compaq Presario laptop, Pentium III 700 mhz, Windows ME, 128 = meg RAM Internal DXbase CW keyer active & using Dxb98 Com1 setting to a = Rigblaster Plus Rigblaster Plus Key Out jack connected to IC-756PRO straight key jack on = radio back HF Radio tab set to Com2, 9200, N, 8, 1 and it works for rig control Bencher paddle connected to IC-756PRO ELEC-KEY jack with internal keyer = on and functional Not using any of the suggested interface schemes from DXbase, Writelog, = CwType, W1WEF, etc. Cannot see the need for extra cabling and circuits = since I can key the rig through the Rigblaster in Writelog and CwType, = both of which also use the DTR and RTS lines with no problem. Since = both these programs can key the rig through the Rigblaster, the internal = Rigblaster jumpers are apparently set correctly. So what gives? Why is there so much confusion and difficulty over = getting DXbase2003 and 2004 to key a variety of rigs on CW? It seems = like this ought to be a pretty straight forward activity. I have to = think there is a configuration problem somewhere. I'm not that versed = on the ini file settings or what to look for in the registry. Any help = would be greatly appreciated. Gary AL9A --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. To learn how to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html ---
