[WT-support] WT winkey MK{2R} problems

[Simon Schelkshorn]

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Hi all,

I am using WT with an MK2R (and occasionally a MicroKeyer) and I get the following problems:
- Varying speed of certain messages. For instance, running at 30wpm, regularly the "+" message will be sent at 36 wpm or more. Sometimes it is just the exchange "INS" message. It is can occur at any speed.

I also encountered this problem and I've found a procedure to reproduce it. I will post the procedure later this day
when I've more time. I will also open a bug report.


- Sometimes sending with paddles connected to the Microham device, will leave the setup in a state that no WT F-keys function. One has to either send a dash/dot with the paddles or press esc. This seems to unblock WT and F-keys function correctly (even sending all the key presses that have failed before unblocking).

Ben, DL6RAI, is able to reproduce this behavior and he told me, that he will open a bug report on this issue.


- There are situations that pressing an F-key, will send only the first letter of the message. WT will then block for good and the only cure I've found is to restart the router and WT. If I just type setup on WT and then click on OK, WT will simply crash.

I've seen this problem too, at least the thing, that only the first character is sent. For me this occurs only directly after starting WT, restarting WT helped so far. Up to now I'm unable to reproduce this :-(


The setting I do use are a winkey com port set up with the defaults offered by WT, I leave also the speed control to be not-synchronized between WT and MicroKeyer, controlled by the knob. The radio if relevant is a K3 a 756 and a 756proIII
I'm using a MKII with speedcontrol set to synchronized/WT-commands only.

I also found another problem with the speedsetting, when using synchronized/Speedpot and changing the speedsettings
in the device router while WT is running. More details to follow.

vy 73, Simon, DJ4MZ