[WT-support] Win-key

[Don Beattie]

I'm glad it's not just me.

BTW, we found that a big improvement could be made (temporarily) by using 
Alt-f9 then alt-f10. This seemed to get the keys and paddle more or less in 
sync - then they would slip out again !

73

Don, G3BJ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Pearson" <lists+wt at attenuate.org>
To: <support at win-test.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [WT-support] Win-key


> On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:56 -0000, Don Beattie wrote:
>> Secondly, the function keys and paddle speed would separate (at one time,
>> the paddle was at 12 wpm and the keys at about 35 !) This happened no
>> matter which way the box on separate speed for paddle and keys was ticked
>> in the WinKey say-up window (we tried both ways)
>>
>> But I understand that there is a necessary firmware upgrade for EZMaster
>> which may be part of the problem on one station here. But on the other we
>> were using stand-alone old WinKey, with the same problem.
>
> Hmm, very interesting indeed.
>
> I seem to have the same issue with my MicroKeyer also - I can confirm
> that the speed sent from the PC via the WinKey is not the speed which it
> claims to be (i.e. 40wpm sounds more like 28).
>
> I can also confirm that ticking the WinKey setting within Win-Test to
> 'enable indendant speed settings between COM port and key' does also
> reveal issues in difference of speed between PC-generated CW and
> hand-keyed CW. If I put both to, say, 40wpm, the PC-generated CW still
> sounds like 28wpm whereas the CW from the paddle *does* sound more like
> 40wpm.
>
> However, the plot thickens. Now, the difference in speed between the PC
> generated CW and the CW generated by the paddle only occurs after
> sending a message from the keyboard. If both are set to 40wpm, hitting
> F1 to send CQ the actual message is sent (albeit slow), but then if I
> send something from my paddle, it sounds much faster than what was sent
> from the PC (and indeed, it sounds faster than 40wpm).
>
> Hitting F1 once again to resend the CQ message sends the message at the
> same speed as before (whatever that is!) and the CW on the paddle is
> still much faster; but press F1 and after the message has sent, hit ESC
> (perhaps a few times). You will now notice that the CW sent from the
> paddle is now back at whatever it was prior to sending any PC generated
> message (somewhere between 22-28wpm) - but not forgetting that both the
> speed settings for the PC generated CW and paddle generated CW are at
> 40wpm.
>
> So, looks like it's time to pass this issue over to  Laurent/Olivier;
> any ideas guys?
>
> 73,
>
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> Simon Pearson M0CLW
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