[WT-support] Win-Test Trial version and Winkeyer Clone

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

Power cycling the WinKeyer Clone would probably get it back to initial
working state (for a while).   It may work in other software because they
send different command strings compared to Win-Test, and the
emulators never seem to thoroughly test with Win-Test.

Instead, I strongly recommend switching to Win-Test DTR keying instead of
using a WinKey or emulator, and connect your paddles to the radio instead
of the WinKey clone.  All these WinKeyer clone software emulators never
perfectly mimic the function of a real WinKey chip, and the K4 code was
only tested against a real WinKey V1 chip and maybe a little testing with
V2.  My Win-Test scripts for Icom radios can keep the IC-7300 paddle speed
in sync with the Win-Test DTR keying speed (or you can use a script
argument to set the Icom paddle speed *n *WPM slower than the Win-Test
keying speed).

https://bit.ly/wtscripts

For details and screenshots of DTR keying setup with IC-7300, see Pages 55
and 64 in this presentation linked from my qrz.com page
<https://www.qrz.com/db/N6TV>.

   - Everything You Need to Know About USB and Serial Interfaces
   <https://bit.ly/USBserial2021>, updated for 2021, presented to Spokane
   DX Association, Feb. 3rd, 2022
      - Watch YouTube recording of this presentation here
      <https://youtu.be/X1yLJ9mi0gY>.

Be sure to change the Windows Power Plan to High Performance mode (set
minimum CPU speed to 100%), and disable USB Power Management on the Silicon
Labs device using Windows Device Manager.

73,
Bob, N6TV


On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 7:42 AM Stephan Schmieg <stephan at die-schmiegs.de>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> unfortunately I experienced the same effect. Even worse, the keyer
> suddenly stopped working properly amid of the 10m contest last weekend.
> Whilst I was still able to do keying with the paddles and the built-in
> memory of the keyer, F-Key messages were not sent to the keyer. Restarting
> wintest, rebooting the PC, restarting the keyer, it all didnt solve the
> problem. With ucxlog and N1MM there‘s no such issue. I think about
> reverting to using the N6TV lua script for my IC-7300, but I‘d like to
> avoid it as it requires changing my setup every time i‘d like to do a
> contest.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> 73
>
> Stephan, DL6RDR
>
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> Am 15. Dezember 2023 um 13:38:38 MEZ schrieb Klaus Göbel <kjgbl at posteo.de
> >:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using the Win-Test Trial version together with a Winkeyer Clone
> based on an Arduino Nano with the K3NG-Firmware. Unfortunately, the
> Keyer produces an audibly poor CW signal, especially at higher speeds
> (30 WPM).
>
> I have already described this problem here:
>
> https://groups.io/g/radioartisan/topic/open_cw_keyer_mk2_with/103073610?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,103073610,previd%3D1702577149202704897,nextid%3D1699218429374864087&previd=1702577149202704897&nextid=1699218429374864087
>
> I do not believe that my Keyer is causing the problem, as the Keyer
> works correctly with the N1MM logger and also the K1EL test
> application.
>
> 73 de Klaus, DL5AB
>
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