[Dx4win] PCI-type LPT ports for CW keying?

[Larry Gauthier (K8UT)]

Paul,

I have been chasing this problem for a few months, in an effort to get the
parallel port on my ByteRunner serial/parallel PCI card working under
WindowsXP. The latest info I have on this comes from the helpful folks at
Wavenode... whose WN1 Windows-based remote wattmeter requires a parallel
port for its interface.

The bottom line is that there are two types of parallel ports these days
(does not matter whether it is "PCI" or not) - SPP (Standard Parallel Port)
and EPP (Extended Parallel Port). You must use an SPP parallel port  under
Windows XP for any software that uses memory addressing to talk to the
remote device [anything other than a printer, essentially]. The ByteRunner
parallel port is EPP - so I need to buy another card that says "SPP" on its
box.

So, if like me, you want more than one parallel port in your PC to interface
to special devices (ARS rotor interface, TopTen band decoder, Wavenode
wattmeter, ...), it will have to be an SPP card.

-larry
K8UT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul B. Peters, VE7AVV" <ve7avv@shaw.ca>
To: <dx4win@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:32 PM
Subject: [Dx4win] PCI-type LPT ports for CW keying?


> I just added a Lava PCI-based LPT port for CW keying. After selecting
> the correct LPT port and saving my Preferences I find the PCI port will
> not key the radio. If I switch the keyer port over to an ISA slot LPT
> port, the keyer works as it should. Has anyone run into this and did you
> solve the mystery?
>
> 73 de Paul, VE7AVV
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