[WT-support] Voice Keyer

[Andrew Hewitt]

Bob,

Many thanks, I had been through the procedure you describe but had purposely
not enabled mic boost as that over drives the sound card on data modes,
obviously you were right and it is required with the external mic. It all
works fine now. I suppose that Skype automatically brings the extra gain in
when Skype starts up.

73 and thanks for your help.

Andy G3SVD

 

 

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From: support-bounces at win-test.com [mailto:support-bounces at win-test.com] On
Behalf Of Bob Wilson, N6TV
Sent: 16 January 2008 18:12
To: support at win-test.com
Subject: Re: [WT-support] Voice Keyer

 

This is a very common problem when "mic boost" is disabled in Windows
itself.

To enable "mic boost", use the following procedure.

If you can find a little gray (WinXP) or yellow (Win2K) speaker icon in the
Windows task bar near the clock, double-click the icon to open the Volume
Control window.  Otherwise

1.	Start
2.	Control Panel
3.	Sound and Audio Devices 
4.	Volume tab
5.	In the "Device volume" section, check "Place volume icon in the task
bar"
6.	Click the Advanced button

If you don't see a "Microphone slider" in the Volume Control window, select
Options, Properties, and place a check mark next to Microphone and press
[OK].

If you don't see an [Advanced] button below the microphone slider, select
Options, Advanced controls from the menu at the top of the Volume Control
window to make it appear.  Then click the [Advanced] button below the
Microphone slider, and finally, check "Mic. Boost".  

If you still don't have sufficient mic. volume, in the Volume Control Window
select Options, Properties, Recording, and Press [OK].  The Window title
will change from "Volume Control" to "Recording Control."  Make sure
"Microphone" is selected as the input device. Then adjust mic. gain here by
moving the slider.

Remember, the microphone slider on the "Volume Control" window adjust the
monitor volume, and the slider on the "Recording Control" window adjusts the
microphone input gain.

It would be nice if Win-Test could automatically enable mic. boost for you
whenever you enable the internal DVK.

73,
Bob, N6TV

2008/1/16 Andrew Hewitt < andyphewitt at btopenworld.com>:

Hi,

I am trying to set up the voice keyer within Win-Test but it does not seem
to work properly. Can anyone give me any advice on how to get this going?

 

All I want to do is to put a recording in F1 saying little more than "CQ
contest G3SVD test" but I cannot get the SSB window bar graph to indicate
into the yellow portion. I am trying to use the onboard soundcard on my Dell
PC which I have already used for data modes and Skype without difficulty.

73

Andy G3SVD

 

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