Mary Anne, Is part of the function of this connection to decode teletype or CW? If so, it may have a sound card of its own for processing the audio or it may control your sound card for that purpose. If you have a sighted person available to look when this happens, bring up the Window-Eyes Control Panel and go down to Devices and Speech Synthesizer. Check to see which sound card the synthesizer is using. If it is pointing at the "default card", try pointing to the internal sound card on your computer. While you are there, see if there is an additional card available which might be one added by the connection to the Kenwood.
If this is the case but changing the sound card doesn't fix this, you might have to see if there an option within the Kenwood software that can be disabled. I am not certain if I missed it, but I don't see what would be gained by going with a serial device. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 11:52:28 -0400, M Lynskey wrote: > Thanks to those of you who have made suggestions. I tried another >driver file for the Kenwood whichc a kind person sent me off list, but >that produces the same result. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that >the conflict may be with the sound card. It is an HP desktop computer, >less than a year old, so I was really surprised to find this occurring. >But, since I think all of my sound gos away when I connect the Kenwood, >it may be the sound card. I looked in the system devices and could not >find any indication that the card was stealing a com port, and I have no >idea where to proceed from here. My next step will be to try to get some >sighted assistance to see what may be happening. >Of course, any further suggestions would be helpful, and again, thanks >to all who have written. I am slowly considering just using a serial >port, but converting USB to serial port involves more wires, and I >already have an over abundance of them. LOL! Also, the very concept that >the USB port is on the radio and this will not work for me is a personal >mystery and I don't like unsolved ones! My plan is to use the >computer/radio for logging purposes. >Thanks to all, 73/88/33, >Mary Anne, W3EPU >On 7/27/2013 6:29 PM, M Lynskey wrote: >> Hi to all of you amateur radio ops out there. I'm hoping you can help >> with a problem I cannot solve which occurs on several computers, all >> that I've tried. >> >> I am trying to connect my Kenwood TS590 to my computer via USB port on >> radio to one of the USB ports on computer. I have 5 USB ports. I have >> tried all of them. I tried another computer as well. I have installed >> all drivers for the radio. As soon as I connect the radio to the >> computer, Window Eyes just disappears. Is there any way to solve this >> problem? Thanks for any suggestions out there. >> >> Mary Anne >> If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >> sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your >> message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your >> message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >> >> GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You >> can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. >> >> >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. >If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to >GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage >your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
