<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Bob Shohet, KQ2M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kq2m@kq2m.com" target="_blank">kq2m@kq2m.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><span style="color:rgb(155,0,211);font-size:small">Aha! So the two computers are then networked
together via Win-test? So that is different than CT Windows where I needed
to have both</span><br></div><div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:small;display:inline;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Calibri';font-weight:normal"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<div><font color="#9b00d3">computers connected to the switch via USB
cables?</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> I think you may have USB cables, serial cables, and Ethernet cables mixed up. In the old days CT used serial ports for networking (not USB), but there was also basic Ethernet support added at one time. As I said, if both computers can access the Internet, then they are already networked well enough for Win-Test, no new cables needed, no serial port networking needed. Win-Test uses standard networking protocols (that is, the same ones that Windows XP uses), usually based on Ethernet.</div>
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<div>Looking at the <a href="http://www.nel-techlabs.com/manuals_legacy/dvk100m.pdf" target="_blank">Nel-Tech
manual</a> I don't see any way to control it via computer. Or do you
already have that working with CT?</div>
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<div><font color="#9b00d3">I used the headset audio to feed the directly into the
input of the DVP card which was installed into the computer (and
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<div><font color="#9b00d3">with DOS but not Windows). </font></div>
<div><font color="#9b00d3">The DVP had two outputs – output which I fed into into
the input of the DVK and the other output which fed directly into</font></div>
<div><font color="#9b00d3">the mic jack on the Yaesu. When I pressed the
appropriate keyboard key, the DVP keyed the radio with the selected</font></div>
<div><font color="#9b00d3">DVP message. </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't understand why you would have two audio outputs connected in series to a Mic. jack, unless you needed 8 messages instead of 4. As you know, the K1EA DVP board will not work at all with Win-Test. I would abandon the external DVKs for now and just try to get the sound card working as a voice keyer.</div>
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<div><font color="#9b00d3"></font> <span style="color:rgb(155,0,211)">is there an external voice-keyer that is known to
work well with WinTest </span><span style="color:rgb(155,0,211)">and WIN XP computer soundcards?</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The sound card (+ Win-Test) <i>is</i> the voice keyer. The MFJ-434 could work instead, but since it needs to be controlled by the same parallel port that you need to connect to the DX Doubler, you would need to buy a 25-pin Y-adapter like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/CablesOnline-Parallel-Y-Splitter-Printer-YS-005/dp/B008RAZXN4">this one</a> so that you could connect both your voice keyer and your DX Doubler to the same port. Unfortunately, I can't tell if this Y-adapter has all the required pins connected (you need pins 2,3,4,5, and 6 (optionally 7 and 8) for the DVK, and pins 9, 14, 16, and 17 for stereo ON/OFF, TX Focus, PTT, and CW keying via the DX Doubler. Pin 4 can also be used for independent headphone switching, so you can put both ears on Radio 2 while Radio 1 is transmitting. But since the DVK also wants to use Pin 4, you won't be able to do both, which is why you should try to use the sound card solution first, before trying to get an external voice keyer to work. Furthermore, automatic repeating CQ only works with sound card voice keying (because then Win-Test knows the length of each voice message). Repeating CQ doesn't work with external voice keyers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>73, <br></div><div>Bob, N6TV</div></div></div></div>