[PaQSO] WB3W PROGRAM

[Mark Schreiner]

Hi Paul,

This is the first time I'll be using the WB3W program myself, so I did 
some experimenting.  It seemed to work a variety of ways.  For instance:

W3OK/NHA
W3OK/LEH
W3OK/R      enter county such as MTR and the next time a different 
county such as NUM
W3OK/M     enter county such as MTR and the next time a different county 
such as NUM

etc.

Scoring of the bonus seemed to pick up all different permutations of the 
above, as long as it was W3OK or W3OK/x.  Duping seemed to work okay as 
well. 

Please check this yourself.  If others have any input, please let me know.

On a related note with WB3W's logging program, I connected my LPT keying 
cable but it didn't seem to key the rig.  This is the first time I'm 
using this laptop.  I'm looking for my Com Port keying cable as well but 
can't find it right now (yet), so may have to keep looking or build 
another.  I usually prefer LPT keying to Com Port.  I'm sure the cable 
worked okay the last time I used it on my desktop.  I selected LPT1 on 
the main CW setup but so far no joy.  Hmm, any ideas?  Have others used 
WB3W with LPT1?  On a laptop?  Oh, I tried both the LPT port directly 
out of the back of the laptop as well as out of the back of the docking 
station.  Laptop is an IBM Thinkpad T42 (upgraded from last year's OLD 
-- late 1990's vintage -- laptop which was NEC Versa 4080H which crashed 
at about 350 QSOs last year due to insufficient resources -- RAM that 
is).  One of the reasons I picked the T42 was because it seemed to have 
a real LPT port and with the docking station a real Com Port as well, 
most new computers only have USB ports anymore. 

Mark, NK8Q

Paul Gondos wrote:
> Hi all:
>    What would be the correct way to log W3OK using the WB3W logging 
> program? Thanks.
>  
> Paul, KA3JOI
> pgondos at hotmail.com
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