[WT-support] Win-key

[Steve London]

This is VERY interesting. I'm a user of one of the other contesting 
loggers (N1MM Logger) that also supports WinKey. Several users of N1MM 
(myself included) have observed similar erratic speed behavior with 
WinKey between paddle-sent and logger-sent CW. Based on this, I would 
have to conjecture that it's not a problem with Win-Test or N1MM, but 
WinKey. I do think it would be very interesting to monitor the serial 
port and see exactly what commands are going to/from WinKey when this 
happens. I'll try to do that this week, unless one of you guys does it 
first.

73,
Steve, N2IC

Simon Pearson wrote:
> 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, 
>