[Dx4win] re installation again

[Tony Lord]

Hi all,

Back to an earlier posting. Some time ago this topic was discussed and
resolved. Unfortunately due to a hard disk problem I cannot retrieve the
necessary information.

I need 2 LPT ports, on a windows XP machine, one for ARS (rotator
control) and one for band decoder (ON4OAI). 

ARS goes to LPT1 and works no problem, XP assigns this a regular address
which ARS can read.

Using a PCI card for the second LPT port, XP assigns this some 4 digit
address and in my computer calls it LPT3. So via DX4WIN, preferences,
control, I select ON4AOI as band decoder and LPT3. It didn't work
before, until someone told me about editing the "portmap" file in the
save directory (this is a notepad file). One can then allocate digits to
represent the LPT ports. I am using non tech language here but some one
directed the reflector towards a web site that would calculate the
necessary entries required for activating this second LPT port.

For example on my previous installation the portmap file looked like
this :

[LPTMAP]
LPT1=888
LPT2=5288
LPT3=



Does anyone remember this??

What I am trying to achieve is to use the band decoder to select the
appropriate aerial for the given band in DX4WIN's QSO window.

Appreciate any comments...........

73's de Tony G8DQZ