[WriteLog] CW keying still doesn't work

2002年11月22日 06:48:32 -0500

At 10:21 PM 11/21/2002 -0500, Joe Stepansky wrote:
>I've been screwing with this for awhile, until last night when I found out 
>I had the emitter and collector reversed on a 2N2222. Having fixed that 
>little problem, I plugged the cable into a 9 pin COM3, the other end to 
>the key plug and......NOTHING.
>>COM3 checked out fine with Writelog since I plugged the rig into it and it 
>worked fine. So it's not the COM port. I built the circuit using a 9 pin 
>connector, with pin 4 (DTR) going to a 1K resistor to the base of the 
>2N2222. Pin 5 (GND) goes to the emitter and to ground. The collector 
>goes to the tip of the CW key plug.
>>I did a continuity test on the entire cable. NO breaks, I'm getting 
>continuity all through the cable. Yet, when I press F2 to send a message, 
>NOTHING HAPPENS.
>>Have COM3 set on the Port setup, with PC Generates as the CW Type. Went 
>into the properties for COM3, it's 8N1 and I changed the baud from 9600 to 
>1200 (this is a Win2K machine). Nada.

Well, thanks to Ron, KA9ALS, I've now learned to turn on the LPT/COM RTS 
setting. Now the interface keys continuously again. This time I haven't 
reversed the emitter and collector, so I'm not sure what's going on. Will 
ponder that at lunch.
73, Joe KQ3F