[WT-support] wkusb lite and ptt

[Steve London]

On 05/02/2013 11:12 AM, Bob Wilson, N6TV wrote:

> It is not a bug.  When Win-Test is configured to use a WinKey for CW,
> all CW PTT timing is delegated to the WinKey PTT output.  Other PTT
> outputs are ignored.  That's because only the WinKey knows when the CW
> is starting and stopping.  So is up to the WinKey to decide when to
> close the PTT output, based on the timing defined in the "PTT Tail"
> settings in the WKSETUP dialog.

That explanation is not quite correct. With Win-Test's implementation of 
Winkey, each character is sent individually to Winkey. The next 
character is not sent until the "character echo" is sent from Winkey 
back to Win-Test. Therefore, Win-Test does have knowledge of when the CW 
is starting and stopping. There is no technical reason, other than 
Win-Test coding, why other forms of PTT could not be active while Winkey 
is being used. Other popular brands of contest logging software support 
this capability.

73,
Steve, N2IC