[WT-support] Poor keying with 64 bit Windows 7

[Jon K Hellan]

On 11/05/2010 11:48 AM, Laurent HAAS - F6FVY wrote:
> Hi Jon
>
> Jon K Hellan a écrit :
>
>> I'm very happy with Win-Test on my regular shack computer, which is a 2002 vintage Thinkpad T23. But one of these days,
>> it will give up the ghost. I tested on a machine running 64 bit Windows 7, and the CW produced was so severely garbled
>> as to be incomprehensible. I'm talking about the sidetone through the speaker here. The rig would have to be keyed through
>> an USB adapter.
>
> Don't rely on the internal speaker to judge keying. Various things can
> hurt the sidetone capabilities in recent OS.
>
> Connect the radio to the interface, use the radio monitor instead, and
> check if you still face the same issue.

And indeed the keying sounds perfectly fine on the radio. Thanks.
This was using a no-name USB-serial adapter bought from Hamcity. It contains a PL-2303 chip.

Jon LA4RT