Hi Riley, thank you and others for so fast feedback. It shoud keep me going.
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 04:06:05PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
>
> Personally, I'd like to see the following options from such a driver:
>
> 1. With or without sidetone. In other words, the user can
> choose whether they can hear the morse through the PC's
> speaker or not.
>
Sound can be disabled by using 0 as tone frequency (e.g. cwkeyset 0 100)
> 2. Output either straight keying or tone encoded. Whilst HF
> tends to use direct keying of the transmitter, VHF and
> above tends to use a tone that is modulated by the keying
> signal, being 0 Hz for off and anywhere between 600-1500
> Hz when on. The PTT is thus keyed for the entire message.
>
I can make an option for PTT but from where should come the sound?
>From PC speker - requires hardware intervention (read: soldering wires
inside PC) of from sound blaster - requires some more learning :-))
> 3. Choice of port to use. From the description, you've used
> a specific serial port for the morse output, but that is
> probably less than optimal.
>
At the moment you can (or you should be able to) use COM1 or COM2 for
keying. It is done by "make cwup1" for COM1 and "make cwup2" for COM2.
Of course that you can use supplied commands inside Makefile somewhere else.
I will add support for LPT keying also.
Thanks again,
73 de Ivo, 9A3TY
