[WT-support] Setting up Winkey

[Hal Offutt]

Bob,

Thanks very much for your prompt and detailed reply.    

I followed your instructions and now I am able to key the rig with WT through Winkey.  Much progress!  However, the PC speaker has stopped working (not a major problem) and the messages programmed into Winkey no longer work when I press the buttons (however the paddle plugged into Winkey is now working).  

When I installed the Winkey driver, I got the message that Winkey was hooked up to COM4.  However, in Configure Interfaces, COM4 was uncheckable.  COM1, COM2 and COM 5 were checkable, so I tried COM5 and got the above result.  

So I am 3/4 of the way home.  Any idea what happened to the sound and why the Winkey messages no longer work?  

73,

Hal W1NN
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Wilson, N6TV 
  To: support at win-test.com ; Hal Offutt, W1NN 
  Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 5:13 PM
  Subject: Re: [WT-support] Setting up Winkey


  Hal,


  First, since you don't have an EZMaster SO2R box, you should probably uncheck "Enable WinKey" in that dialog (shortcut:  type EZSETUP [Enter] in the logging window).


  Next, you have to determine the virtual COM port assigned to your WinKey USB box.  The WinKey configuration program should display it for you.  Let's say it is COM5.

    1.. Type SETUP [Enter] in the logging window 
    2.. Put a check mark next to COM5
    3.. In the drop-down box next to COM5, select WinKey
    4.. Press the [Configure...] button next to COM5
    5.. Press the [WinKey Default Settings] button to change all the COM port settings 
    6.. Press [OK] to close the COM5 Properties dialog
    7.. Make sure LPT is not checked assuming you have no printer port
    8.. Make sure you don't see "CW" displayed next to any COM ports.  If it is there, press the [Configure...] button next to that COM port and disable it 
    9.. Press [OK] again to close the Interfaces Configuration screen
  You now can program all your Win-Test CW messages via MSGS [Enter].  Note that these  CW messages are completely different from the ones you already "prerecorded" into the WinKey using the WinKey setup program -- those CW messages are ignored by Win-Test as Win-Test must use its own messages to insert logged callsigns, serial numbers, etc.


  73,
  Bob, N6TV


  On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Hal Offutt <hal at japancorporateresearch.com> wrote:

    Hello,

    New to WT and new to this list.

    Trying to get WT installed on my XP computer to work with a fairly new Winkeyer2 USB.  Installed the Winkeyer2 USB driver and it seems to be working okay.  Messages prerecorded in Winkey are keying the rig okay and paddle hooked up to Winkey is also keying fine, but messages recorded in the F keys are not (although they sound fine on the internal speaker).  

    The "Enable Winkey" box in options/EZMaster is checked (not that I understand what EZMaster is).

    I suspect that there is a simple solution to this problem and that many have been here before (but I couldn't find anything relevant in the archives).  

    How do I tell WT that I want to use Winkey?  

    (I have five USB ports on my computer.  I am assuming that any one of them will work.  If this is not correct, how do I determine which one to use?  I have tried them all with no success.)

    Many thanks in advance.

    73,

    Hal W1NN
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