Again thanks to those on this reflector with the time to advise me on
interfacing WL with my station.
This info is offered to help the next guy.
The following steps were needed to finally interface my station and new XP
computers with WL on SSB, CW, and RTTY.
I replaced the on board sound card on the new XP computer after it failed the
WL sound board test, I used 1 PCI expansion slot to add a new sound
card...first with a Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-FI which also failed ..then I
replaced the X-FI card with a generic card distributed by StarTech.com called
a PCISOUND4CH ..This is a cheap $14 board had barely enough instructions to
install it...but it works....
A second major problem was masking the sound board issue when I tried to setup
my station to use WLRTTY (FSK) in the NAQP test. ....current computers have
either USB or in the one I found several USB ports and 1 serial port and 1 LPT
port and 4 expansion slots and of course with an XP operating system I could
not access the LPT....so I added a SIIG Inc 4 port serial card using the
second PCI slot however with my PROII using COM 1 the RTTY control went to
COM3 on the SIIG card (COM 2 is not available) as soon as I select RTTY in WL
the computer crashed...
After a lot of fruitless attempts to figure out what was wrong I decided to
work from the know good....I knew COM 1 worked with the PROII and I knew that
COM2 worked on CW..the RTTY was the new addition so I switched COM 1 and COM 3
rebooted and everything works on SSB CW and RTTY..My conclusion is the virtual
COM ports 3 - 6 on the SIIG card are not the same as the mother board based
COM1 as far as the RTTY control is concerned ...No science here just luck...and
I did run a few Q's in the NAQP.
Mike Reagan NI7T or NI6P
Quincy California
" Don't be upset...these things happen to people"
Jim Harrison 2009
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