[Elecraft] Re: K2/100, TopTen Band Decoder??

[Tom Whiteside]

Mike, thanks alot!   I will forward this on to Wayne and see what he =
thinks.   My head is not wedged yet but the day is coming!

Tom N5TW
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  From: Mike Lewis (MSM)=20
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  Tom,

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  One avenue you might investigate, or more likely suggest to the author =
of Writelog (or your favorite logger) about, is the solution currently =
being used for running WISPDDE on XP and Windows 2000 today.

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  In my case I use Satscape to talk to WISPDDE via DDE, and WISPDDE in =
turn uses the parallel port to control an inexpensive FODtrack board for =
automated Az-El rotor control. =20

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  There is a program from Scientific Software Tools, port95nt.exe which =
installs drivers named DLportIO.  This installs a parallel port driver.  =
In the WISP folder, a replacement inout.dll file is dropped in that uses =
the DLPortIO driver for 2000/XP.  WISPDDE uses this inout.dll for =
parallel port access.

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  Writelog could be changed to use this inout.dll, or more directly, the =
DLportIO drivers for its own parallel port access in a way similar to =
the method WISP DDE uses.    The source is available for all of this I =
believe so it might be an easy change for the Writelog author to make.=20

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  If you are a Satscape user you would follow this procedure:

    1.. You install WISPDDE from =
http://www.chasque.net/franky/wispdde/wdde_eng.htm or it is possibly =
included in the sat tracking program such as Satscape.=20
    2.. Install DLPORTIO drivers by downloading & running port95nt.exe, =
found at http://www.driverlinx.com/DownLoad/DlPortIO.htm=20
    3.. Download inoutnt.zip.  I cannot find the source location on the =
web for this but I can send it to you.   Pretty small.=20
    4.. In the directory you installed WISP, Overwrite your existing =
INOUT.DLL with the one in the inoutnt.zip archive=20
    5.. Configure your Rotor interface for FODTrack and LPT1 (or what =
ever your port number is).   =20
    6.. Big NOTE:  The DLPortIO driver only talks to directly connected =
parallel port hardware - it does not seem to deal with parallel ports on =
add-in PCI cards.   I have confirmed this on 2 computers so far.   This =
is generally no issue, since the printer that was probably on the =
built-in parallel port will work fine on the PCI add-in card.=20
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