[WriteLog] Weird mouse behavior

Fri Jun 25 21:25:39 PDT 2010

Was setting up my radio in the RV for Field Day yesterday and noticed 
something weird I've never seen before. Using WL V10.76H, Icom-756PRO, 
Microkeyer II, ASUS net book running XP, Microsoft wireless mouse. 
Everything seemed to be working ok, I could receive, send, had the band map, 
the F keys worked, etc.
However I suddenly noticed that when I moved the mouse the frequency on the 
radio started changing. No matter which way I moved the mouse the radio 
frequency decreased in increments of 100 Hz; always down, never up. I use 
the Mouse_Wheel_Hz=100 command in my ini file, but this has never given me a 
problem before either in the base station or the portable RV setup. I 
edited writeLog.ini and removed the Mouse_Wheel command completely and 
restarted WL. The same behavior occurred! Radio frequency incremented down 
in 100 Hz steps even though there was no Mouse_Wheel command in the ini 
file. It's not RF related as I wasn't transmitting.
Shut down WL and rebooted the net book. After the reboot the drifting 
frequency problem with mouse movement went away, but now I notice that when 
I turn the mouse wheel the radio frequency shifts in 10 Hz increments. 
Again, no Mouse_Wheel command in the ini file. Now the frequency shifts 
both ways, up and down, depending on the mouse wheel direction. I am 
puzzled as to why this happened to start with and further puzzled by why the 
mouse wheel can shift the radio frequency without the Mouse_Wheel command in 
the ini file. Anyone ever seen this? Any ideas on what is going on?
73,
Gary AL9A