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

Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:32:29 -0500

However, I'm not sure it follows that all ports marked SPP will work...
And ports capable of EPP operation can be used successfully... So I'm
not sure how much this helps, other than a reminder that any parallel
port used for Amateur applications should be configured as SPP...

For what it's worth, I was unable to use a Lava parallel port for
anything other than printing.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larry 
> Gauthier (K8UT)
> Sent: February 21, 2004 13:40
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Dx4win] PCI-type LPT ports for CW keying?
> 
> 
> 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" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> 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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