I don't think the OrionII can be keyed by the serial port. I use a
rigblaster pro to handle the keying - the DTS serial port handshaking line
is used to key the Orion via the keying jack on the back of the Orion. This
takes a separate port from that used to control the Orion. I use CwType, a
free keyboard to keying program to handle keying. The port and handshaking
line (DTS or RTS) must be specified in the CwType setup.
Dave WN5V
-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of John B. Egger
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 7:24 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion 2 and Xlog keyer
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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