Although not a big contester as a rule, last weekend I had a lot of fun
working the New England QSO Party using Writelog. I was working mostly CW
and doing most everything manually. It was pointed out to me I should be
using a lot of the automatic message features in Writelog. This is fine with
Bullington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed May 11 13:11:24 CDT 2005
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] K2/Writelog computer interface
Although not a big contester as a rule, last weekend I had a lot of fun
working the New England QSO Party using Writelog. I was working mostly CW
and doing
the contest this
weekend?
Mark, NK8Q
K2 4786
From: Andy Bullington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed May 11 13:11:24 CDT 2005
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] K2/Writelog computer interface
Although not a big contester as a rule, last
weekend I had a lot of fun
working the New
On Wed, 11 May 2005 14:11:24 -0400, Andy Bullington wrote:
Any info would be much appreciated.
Writelog keys the K2 VERY nicely using their serial port method.
To make it work, you need to make a very simple interface.
1) Pin 4 of the serial cable (from the computer) thru a 1K
resistor to
That's silly! Modern computers are WAY more capable than that. Someone
in charge of one of these keying programs needs to look into the Win-32 API
for starting threads with differing priorities. I'm not one of those
programmers, but I KNOW you can make the opsys dispatch you often enough, if
Guys, Jim is correct. A PC running windows and most contest/ham
programs will key the K2 (or any other CW-capable rig) very nicely. But
only if the computer is fast enough to handle all its tasks AND the CW
functions as well. Don't expect an old slow Pentium 3 system to handle
it very
-Original Message-
Writelog keys the K2 VERY nicely using their serial port method.
To make it work, you need to make a very simple interface.
1) Pin 4 of the serial cable (from the computer) thru a 1K
resistor to the base of a generic NPN (I use a 2N4123 because I
have a lot of
Not true...
I run Writelog with MMTTY which is a RTTY plug in with rig control and it
works just fine on an 800 MHz CPU.
I also have used it running CW transmit, CW decode (with the sound card),
packet screen, rig control, (FT-1000MP) and rotor control with NO PROBLEMS.
I use a home brew
Okay, so is it really time to upgrade my from my C64? Just kidding. I meant
to mention that the keying issue I noted was during a contest in October and/or
November using my work laptop, which is a P4-1000 to key my big rig. The
test last night was with my desktop which was running a P3-550,
Okay, so is it really time to upgrade my from my C64?
Just kidding.
Actually, if you had a C64 your timing problems would be solved. I wrote a
CW send/receive program for Atari back in the 80's and it worked great.
(6502 processor, same as your Commodore 64.)
The problem (if it exists --
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