<div dir="ltr">Bob, <div><br></div><div>It's usually a good idea to define a PTT port whenever you select Voice Keyer: Enable Sound Card in Win-Test Interfaces Configuration. Otherwise, every beep sound made by Windows could key the transmitter. So could stray RF or noise in the audio lines.<div>
<br></div><div>In the Windows Recording Control, is Microphone selected as the recording device, or Line In? Set it to Mic. (Open Volume Control, Options, Properties, Recording, check all boxes, click OK, check "Select" under the Microphone slider).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Please refer to this post for tips on how to get to that control:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://lists.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2007-October/074736.html" target="_blank">http://lists.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2007-October/074736.html</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>You should also be able to keep the Windows Master Volume window visible while you're running Win-Test, and you should see the "Mute" checkbox under the "Microphone" slider change every time you play a voice message by pressing F1. If it is doing that, and you have recorded a message via Shift+F1, then Win-Test is working properly with your sound card, and the mic. should be muted.</div>
<div><br></div><div>However, if somehow the mic. is connected to Line In instead of Mic In, it may not. What model of PC do you have and what type of sound card is displayed by Win-Test under "Voice Keyer"?<br>
<div><br></div><div>As long as you're really running Windows XP, nothing later, using the sound card as a voice keyer should work fine, including mic. muting when playing a message, though updating the device driver for your sound card may be required if it is not working.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I ask because you said you have a "relatively new XP system", which is surprising because no new systems have been shipped with Windows XP for many years.<br></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>73,<div>Bob, N6TV</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Robert Pack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nx5m@txcyber.com" target="_blank">nx5m@txcyber.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font>Do not see a reason for defining a PTT port since everything
goes through the sound card.</font></div>
<div><font>Yes, mic plugged into the sound card at all
times.</font></div>
<div><font>Yes to "mute the microphone input while the DVK is
playing".</font></div>
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<div><font>As far as screen shots....it will be a while before this can
be done. Perhaps a couple of weeks when I am back at the
station.</font></div>
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<div><font>Bob NX5M</font></div>
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<a title="n6tv@arrl.net" href="mailto:n6tv@arrl.net" target="_blank">Bob Wilson, N6TV</a> </div>
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<div dir="ltr">I assume you're keeping the mic. plugged into the sound card at
all times, not the radio. That's the only way that automatic muting can
work.
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<div>Depending on your sound card, you may have to check certain options.
I assume you already checked <b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>Mute</span> the
microphone input while the DVK is playing</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">, not the other
one.</span></div>
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<div>Please send me screen shots of the Win-Test Interfaces Configuration
Screen, your Windows XP Recording Control screen, and your Windows Sound Card
options.</div>
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<div>Also, did you select a PTT port on COM1 or LPT1? Defining a PTT
port may be required to get this to work right.</div>
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<div>Bob, N6TV</div></div><br>
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<div><font face="Arial">Discovered an issue, which may have been present for
the past several months after replacing one of the computers.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Mic will not mute when the voice keyer is
playing.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Computer is a relatively new XP system.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Box in "configure interfaces" is checked. Tried
un-checking and vice-versa. Restarted WinTest. Restarted
computer. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Went into the settings on the computer and tried
various selections.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">If the INPUT MONITOR is muted in Windows the mic is
muted when the voice keyer is playing. However, this also kills
the mic for everything else. The voice keyer still plays the recorded
message in this case.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">If the INPUT MONITOR is not muted the mic is "hot" all
the time....also while an F-Message is being transmitted.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">The computer only has two ports on the sound
card. Blue and red (LINE IN and MIC) are consolidated into this one
port.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Does anyone know a solution to this
problem?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Do not want to mic to be "hot" when a voice keyer
message is being transmitted.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Possibly a sound card incompatibility issue since the
LINE IN and MIC are combined into one port?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Suggestions welcome!</font></div>
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