Just as a follow-up, I switched the keying from COM3, which is on an
added-on card to COM1, which is the serial port located on the
motherboard (on the off chance there was something odd about the serial
port drivers) and unfortunately it made no difference.
On 12/28/2009 4:04 PM, David, K2DBK wrote:
> So has anyone else got any thoughts about the issue with CW keying
> locking up in version 8.03? As I posted to this list, I've tried
> literally every combination of using CW Keying& PTT on both DTR and RTS
> with no luck. I've tried a completely clean install on the same computer
> with the same issue. (Specifically, sending any CW results is the rig
> going into xmit and staying there, until I either exit D4W or go into CW
> setup and select then de-select Tune). The only test that I haven't done
> yet will be to move to a different COM port. (The problem is that if
> that works, I need to reconfigure all the other software that I use.)
>
> This works perfectly using version 8.02 (and prior) using the exact same
> hardware configuration. I've verified the the keying setup continues to
> work with programs that it worked with before I went to 8.03, and even
> added a couple of new programs recently just as a test which all work
> fine. (DTR on COM3 to be used for CW keying. I normally don't use PTT at
> all since I run QSK, but it doesn't seem to matter whether I have PTT
> configured or not.)
>
> I'm temporarily using CWType (a 3rd party program) to send CW from the
> keyboard, but I'd really like to have the functionality back. I know
> that I'm not the only one complaining, and I do know this can be a busy
> time of the year to get around to things, so I am just trying to remind
> the folks out there that I'd really like to get this working again. I am
> more than happy to try test/debugging builds, whatever it takes. (And
> I'm trying to get my fist so that this would be a lot less of an issue,
> but it's just slow going folks!)
>
> Thanks.
>
--
73,
David, K2DBK
http://k2dbk.blogspot.com
http://k2dbk.com
twitter: @k2dbk
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