I have put in many frustrating hours trying to make the cw interface work. It doesn't really work! There are several paragraphs of apologia contained in the help file that in essesence states that even if you could get an interface that worked, it would be limited significantly due to limitations in windows. Other users have found that if you run mmtty minimized the cw interface will work. Why should that be a prerequisite to operation of a advertised dxbase capability. I presently use two freeware windows programs, N1MM and Hamlogger, that have excellent cw machine interfaces that have none of the windows problems alluded to in the dxbase help file. Instead, DXBASE provides interfaces with other hardware cw interfaces that cost more than the DXBASE software. The freeware programs also provide some of these interfaces. I have been a long user of dxbase, and will probably continue to use it due to the really strong report mangement system capability that is imbedded within the logging database (way to go Joe). So, after all of the above, I recommend that the next version of DXBASE contain a working cw interface in line with the current "industry standard".
Dick Barron WY4Q
