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[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

Hi Al,

You usually will not receive a COM port opening error if you have no radio
connected.  That message usually means that another program, perhaps another
logging program or another instance of Win-Test, or even a PDA program, is
already running and is using that COM port, whether hardware is connected to
it or not.  Reboot Windows and try again.

If you start Win-Test and type SETUP [Enter] in the callsign field, you
should be able to re-enable the serial ports by checking them.  If they are
all gray, something else is wrong.

If your PC has no real serial ports, and you are using a USB to serial
adapter or a microHAM router, that router software must be running first,
before you start Win-Test, since it is the software that defines the
"Virtual" COM ports that you must specify in Win-Test.

73,
Bob, N6TV

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Albert Crespo <f5vhj at orange.fr> wrote:

> When I opened up wintest I did not have a radio connected to it and
> received the com port opening error, Instead of hitting the disable this
> port only for this logging session, I must have hit the disable this port
> permanently window because now when I open up the interfaces configuration
> window, no serial ports are available.
>
> How do I retrieve the ability for wintest to use serial ports?
>
> I cannot find anything in the reference manual that covers this issue of
> what happens when you hit the disable port and want to undo the disabling of
> the useage of serial ports.
>
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