[Dx4win] COM ports above COM8

[Steve Jackson]

Thanks to the several hams who commented on my question.  Fortunately, I'm pretty handy with the [cussed] Windows worings, so I was familiar with the ways one can re-map hardware to COM ports other than what comes up as a default.

Sadly, however, the option to do so isn't always available, or easily available, as in my case.  I had to really customize drivers of hardware devices in an unconventional way, but I finally was able to free up a COM port definition in the range that DX4WIN allows.

So, my new K1EL Winkeyer USB works like a champ with DX4WIN.  Perfect!

For a future revision, it would be great if DX4WIN "queried" the Windows environment to see what COM ports were assigned in the computer, and then made those ports dynamically available for selection via a drop-window.  In this way, any arrangement of such ports would be possible to pick from, instead of being limited to an arbitrary number.  As the number of serial peripherals in a ham shack increase (rotor, packet modem, weather station, rig, antenna switch, second RX control, home automation, keyer, etc., etc.) this scenario isn't so much as a rarity as one might expect.




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