Steve:

Ok, I think I understand what you are saying now.

Maybe my best bet is to indeed get another USB to serial adapter for the 
N3FJP software, and just make a serial connection to the TS590, using a 
totally different com port.

Is that what you are suggesting?

Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: sound card question


> Tom,
>  You are making life hard for yourself just to save 15 bucks for
> another usb adapter.  The previous advice to go into windows and make
> sure your on board sound card is the default may help here.
>
> If that doesn't help and you can't find any menu setting in N3FJP, look
> in the program's folder for a configuration file.   You may see
> something like "sound device =" followed by a number.
>
> I have no idea if N3FJP does it this way, but in the other software I've
> seen, -1 is the number for the default card, 0 is the number for the
> next added sound card, 1 for the next one and so on. MMTTY does it this 
> way.
>
> While this may have nothing to do with your audio problem, I'm not sure
>  you can use 2 rig control programs on the same radio port at the same
> time. The 590 will let you use different programs on the serial and usb
> ports, such as a logger on  one and ARCP or HRD on the other, but not
> both on the same port. Again this may have nothing to do with the audio,
> but  I don't think you can have ARCP running and still get freq info
> from the rig to the N3FJP, if both are on the same port at the same time.
>
> 73, Steve  KW3A
>
> On 9/10/2011 11:47 AM, Tom Behler wrote:
>> Hi, folks.
>>
>> How do I find out what sound card the N3FJP logging software is using in 
>> my
>> Windows 7 laptop?
>>
>> I just made an interesting discovery.
>>
>> The wave files for the N3FJP logging software work whenever my TS590 is 
>> off,
>> but as soon as I turn it on, and the ARCP590 software is in use, the wave
>> files go away.  To me, this means I need to choose another sound card for
>> those wave files when using the N3FJP software, and I just don't know how 
>> to
>> do that.
>>
>> Obviously, I don't want to screw anything up here now, since everything 
>> else
>> is working.
>>
>> I can live without the wave files, but they are helpful at times.
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>>
>>
>