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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Doug,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>sounds odd. I've been using an IC-781 and WT for
years and never experinced that problem. However, in the center of my station is
the microHAM microKEYER connected to an USB port of my Pentium III notebook (1
GHz, WINDOWS XP prof). Controlling the radio (now an IC-7800, formerly the
IC-781) is handeled through the virtual port COM 5 (created by the USB Device
manager of the microKEYER) and sending the CW-messages is handeled through the
virtual port COM 8 created the same way.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A year ago, when visiting a friend I took
part in a cw-contest using my notebook (running WinTest) and his station (IC756,
I believe). Since I did not want to bring my microKEYER the cw-messages were
handled through a cable between the LPT-port of my notebook (real port, no
virtual port) and his TRX. Naturally the cable was configured in such a
way that one or transistors in one of the connectors did the switching as
suggested in the SW manual of RCKLOG, a contestlogger which I used for a number
of years before changing to WINTEST.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I wish you good luck in solving the
problem.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>vy 73 de Rudy, DJ3WE</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=k1dg@ix.netcom.com href="mailto:k1dg@ix.netcom.com">Doug Grant</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=support@win-test.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 15, 2007 12:31
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [WT-support] Stuttering CW</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am a new user of Win-Test, and am having
problems with "stuttering" CW. I don't have this problem with
CTWin.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am using LPT1 interface. WinXP running on a 2.4
GHz P4 machine.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The symptom is that occasionally a part of a
character is extended (i.e. very looooooong dash, or a dot that sounds like a
dash).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have an IC781connected on LPT4 as Radio 2
(Radio 1 is not in operation now...).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Zone Alarm and Norton AV 2006 running (but
shutting them off did not fix the problem). Disconnecting the wireless network
did not help.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I read previous messages on this topic, and have
verified that the port address is correct, and "never use an interrupt" is
ticked.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I looked at the task manager, and there are a lot
of things running. I tried changing the priority of wt.exe to real-time and it
did not help.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The only process that seems to run frequently is
svchost.exe, and there are several instances of it showing in the task
manager.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is worst if I have several windows open, and
move one of them around the screen...the CW speed slows way down and
characters get messed up. Thought maybe it was a display issue. Tried
unticking the "Enable Write-combining" box in the Display section of control
panel. Also played with the hardware acceleration settings for the display
with no improvement.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can only guess that something in the display
handling is conflicting with CPU priorities.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any suggestions?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>73,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Doug K1DG</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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