I use a laptop as my primary computer. I use both WinKeyer and a
USB-to-serial converter, for CW and for controlling the radio. I've
found that if I ever boot up the machine away from home, without those
cables connected, and then bring it back home again to reconnect them,
both devices get assigned to new Com ports, frequently above com8. The
trick described below works fine. You must be logged in as an
administrator for this to work. The place you want to change is found
at startcontrol panelsystemdevice managerportspropertiesport
settingsadvanced. You have to separately reconfigure a port for each
device you're going to use; I've found that Windoze warnings
notwithstanding, com4 and com5 are perfectly safe to use. Once you're
finished, I think you have to reboot for it to take effect. An
additional point is that once you've done this once, you can save a
profile. Do this once you've made changes, rebooted found that they
work. The place to do that is startcontrol panelsystemhardware
profiles. It will allow you to save your current profile with a specific
name - I did mine as Radio setup - radio 4 winkey 5 so it's perfectly
obvious what's going on. There are some other options that are
self-explanatory; once you've done this you'll see a menu every time you
boot up that allows you to pick either the default profile or the one
you set up for the radio; if you don't select one in a specified amount
of time (default is 30 seconds) it will choose the default for you. Hope
this helps - it worked great for me. Of course, you have to remember to
reconfigure your logging program(s) afterwards so they see everything.
They're all different but I can help with N1MM, DX4Win and Ham Radio
Deluxe (a really nifty freeware program that controls every conceivable
function of most radios far better than any of the contest or general
loggers do!)
Alan Braun NS0B/V31EV
Kostas SV1DPI wrote:
I will add that i have not find a way (i believe dx4win doesn't
support right) to use the ptt of the keyer with my markv. Not big
problem on cw as i activate the vox, but big one on mmtty where i use
another interface just for it. By the way writelog does it fine...
In your question now. I believe that if you change this situation
inside windows you will solve the problem.
Startcontrol panelsystemdevice managerports
rename com5 to com11 and com11 to com5. Windows will tell you that it
is problem but i have done it with no problem. If it doesn't work make
the reverse. I don't think you loose something. My opinion, your risk
Kostas sv1dpi
- Original Message - From: Steve Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 8:26 PM
Subject: [Dx4win] support for COM ports above COM8
I have a new K1EL Winkeyer USB on COM11. ( Plug for the gizmo: This
is a nice kit and went together without a hitch in just a couple of
hours. Price is right, too.)
To get the feature support
for this recent addition to my station, I just placed an order for
the upgrade from
6.04 to 7.03 on the DX4WIN web site.
It would be rather challenging ... as in, not really possible ... to
reconfigure this new WinKeyer to a lower COM port designation.
I have
two hardware UART COM ports on COM1 and COM2 (which can't be moved), and
then a Digi USB-serial box on COM 2 through COM10, inclusive. Also
fixed.
It looks like DX4WIN V7.03 only supports COM ports up to COM8.
How can I get my Winkeyer to operate with DX4WIN V7.03?
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From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 6 18:22:54 2008
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Braun)
Date: Sun Jan 6 18:23:42 2008
Subject: [Dx4win] Unhappy with DX4WIN
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This is a serious pain in the a** with DX4Win. I've commented about it
several times to Paul with no response, and to Jim AD1C who
commisserates but isn't much help as he isn't the programmer. I've
always wondered why previously logged contacts can't be sacred, as you
put it, the way they are in most of the contest loggers. Also I wonder
why exceptions, where for example you change a country reference to
match where a station really is, can't be saved to a separate file
rather than put into the main country database, so that you don't lose
them every time you update the database. (Like what some word processors
do when you update the dictionary - that programming
