Hi,
WL had been highly recommended to me by several serious contesters. Having a
bit of experience I had came to the conclusion I wanted a program that had some
better and different features than some I've used. So I recently bought and
installed the program. Immediately a major problem surfaced along with a giant
irritant.
When selecting the radio and clicking OK in the ports setup my radio
immediately goes into transmit. The radio is an ICOM 746Pro and the interface
is a Rigblaster Plug & Play USB to serial adapter that also has in and out
audio isolation. I'm using Windows XP Home on a home built computer. This
setup has worked well with several other contesting/logging and radio control
programs. The troubleshooting section of the Rigblasters manual says the RTS
and/or DTR is being maintained high by the software. The manual also states
the Rigblaster has been found to work with 100 software programs without
problems. I really don't want to buy anymore hardware as this setup has worked
for me for nearly a year with other software. Anyone have any ideas?
The giant irritant is the fact there is not a set of "F" buttons with macro
names for use with a mouse. Every other amateur radio software program I've
used has had that and never had a reason to suspect that WL would not. I just
simply cannot imagine a program with the reputation that WL has would not have
such a feature. It seems one is reduced to making a "F" key cheat sheet with
"F" keys and their functions and then pounding the keyboard all day and all
night thru a contest. Not my idea of fun at all.
73,
Jim, AB0UK
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