[WT-support] Paddle focus problem with WinKeyer 2

sm5ajv at tdcmail.se sm5ajv at tdcmail.se
Wed Sep 24 20:07:20 CEST 2008


Thanks for the info José! 
It was enlightening to hear that the paddles focus problem
isn't a "feature" :-) So I'll wait to hear what the SW guys
will say. 

Maybe I should reconsider and not using the paddles...


73
Ingo SM5AJV / SE5E


José Nunes CT1BOH <ct1boh at gmail.com> Skrev: 
>Hi Ingo
>
>Let me tell you that I never use paddles in contests. I always use the F
>buttons and avoid "chat". Not having the paddle around is a good incentive
>to avoid chat.... If "chat" is needed (for QSYs), I use the keyboard. Also
>I
>never use winkey. I prefer to use WT internal CW generator. So I never
>experienced your situation, because the keyboard always send CW into the
>active radio.
>
>Conceptually if you are using a paddle, the behaviour must be the same if
>you are using the keyboard - the paddle always sends morse into the active
>radio, no matter what.
>
>If you push F1 on radio 1, and immediately push "*", the radio will
>finnish
>sending the content of F1 on radio1, but radio2 is already the active
>radio.
>So using a paddle or pushing a F key (after the "* key") will send CW into
>radio2, the active radio.
>This is the way it is supposed to work.
>
>73
>José
>CT1BOH
>
>
>
>
>On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:17 PM, <sm5ajv at tdcmail.se> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I am still "struggling" with WinKeyer2 USB and WT.
>>
>> During SAC CW last weekend I had the following problem:
>>
>> 1. Make CQ on radio 1 by pushing F1
>> 2. Switch to radio 2 with *-key
>> 3. The use of paddles or ctrl-T will key radio 1 instead of
>>   radio 2, as expected.
>> 4. If a messaged key (i.e. F7) is now pushed radio 2 will start
>>   keying. Afterwards the paddle and ctrl-T will key radio 2 as
>>   expected.
>>
>> This problem may be related to my earlier troubles
>> with PTT-keying from the WK2. See message
>> http://www.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2008-September/076229.html
>>
>> Any hints of what is wrong?
>>
>> 73
>> Ingo SM5AJV / SE5E
>>
>>
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>
>
>
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>-- 
>José Nunes
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