[Dx4win] DX4WIN and the Rig Expert

[Kostas SV1DPI]

Dear Dave
I had a homemade interface where i used pins 2,3,5 to control the mark v, 
pin 7 (rts),5 for ptt and pin 4(dtr),5 for cw keyinf from the same com port. 
The general idea had come after reading something simiral for 1000mp in 
va3cr web page. No problem at all. Dx4win works perfect. This moment i have 
a so2r device (w5xd keyer) and i use this interface like cw keyer only, as 
dx4win can't work with w5xd. So i have not tested with the last version 
(tested with 6.xx). But i don't believe that there is a problem. I am afraid 
that the problem is in Rigexpert virual com program.
Kostas sv1dpi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Edwards" <wb1s at comcast.net>
To: <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:56 AM
Subject: [Dx4win] DX4WIN and the Rig Expert


>I am having an issue with the RigExpert SD USB interface and DX4WIN. I have 
>the RigExpert connected between a USB port on my pentium 3.0 ghz running 
>WIndows XP Home and an FT 1000MP mKV. I finally got all functionality 
>working through DX4WIN -- PSK31, CW, MMTTY and the FT 1000MP CAT all work 
>great.  EXCEPT if I turn off the FT1000 and then some time later go to the 
>Radio menu of DX4WIN and start the radio. Blue Screen on Windows. If I 
>start and stop the radio -- same thing. The Blue screen talks about ks.sys 
>which is the kernal streams driver used for i/o streams and audio.
>
> The RigExpert only presents one virtual com port and I have it set to COM 
> 8. In DX4WIN I have the CAT set to COM 8 and the CW interface set to COM 
> 8. I think here in lies the problem (but I'm not sure).  If I disable the 
> CW interface the issue goes away. But the RigExperrt guys tell me this 
> should support DX4WIN and all its functionality so apparently I am doing 
> something wrong. Does anyone know if DX4WIN can use the same comm port for 
> both the CAT interface and the CW interface or is this an absolute 
> conflict. I think the CW functionality just uses the DTR pin.
>
> Thanks
> de
> WB1S
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