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Re: [TenTec] Orion 2 and Xlog keyer

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion 2 and Xlog keyer
From: "John B. Egger" <john_egger@comcast.net>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:23:40 -0400
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jack wrote:
> does Xlog not send the CW to a serial or parallel port? i use MixW and it 
> sends the keying to your choice of several serial ports or the parallel port 
> (printer port).
> Jack
>
>   
>
Yes, Jack, you're right... though I didn't see anything in the Orion 
manual about serial-cable keying.

Here's part of the Xlog manual's brief entry on keying: "The keyer 
window, available under the Tools Menu, is in fact a simple (contesting) 
interface for cwdaemon."

Going to cwdaemon, the README in /usr/share/cwdaemon begins with this:

> Cwdaemon is a small daemon which uses the pc parallel or serial port 
> and a
> simple transistor switch to output morse code to a transmitter from a 
> text
> message sent to it via the udp internet protocol. The program uses the
> soundcard or PC speaker to generate a sidetone.
> It is called as root, with "cwdaemon -p <portnumber> -d <device>". If no
> portnumber is given, the default portnumber 6789 is used. Device can 
> be one of
> the serial (ttyS0, ttyS1, etc) or parallel (parport0, parport1, etc) 
> ports.
> Default is parport0.

...and here's the start of /etc/default/cwdaemon:
> # /etc/default/cwdaemon
> # OK1ZIA 17 Aug 2004
>
> #
> # Start cwdaemon at boot? yes or no
> START_CWDAEMON=yes
>
> # device without /dev/ e.g. ttyS0, ttyS1, ttyUSB0, ttyd0 (FreeBSD), 
> parport0,
> # parport1, ... or null for no port keying.
> # Default for linux: parport0 with ppdev driver
> DEVICE="parport0"
I tried editing DEVICE to ttyS0, the serial port that handles the 
Orion's serial cable, but this had no apparent effect on Xlog's keyer 
behavior.

-- 
--John K3GHH
Registered Linux User #291592
Klikit Linux 0.1-9RC1-G

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