Hi, all.

Well, I've made some more progress in sending CW via the computer keyboard 
with the N3FJP AC logging software.

I have now succeeded in accessing the CW keyboard sending function, and in 
making the N3FJP AC log software send my specially-created function key CW 
strings.

But, I have noticed what I feel are two major problems.

One is that this can only be done in CW mode on the TS590, which means that 
I'm transmitting no matter what I do.  In other words, I can't do much 
testing of the CW sending function itself to determine what I'm most 
comfortable with, since anything I send gets transmitted over the air.  The 
strange thing is that in Scott's other contest logging programs, I can put 
the TS590 in USB or LSB mode, and still have the side tone to use for 
testing purposes without transmitting.

This, to me, is a major disappointment.

The other problem I found is that, of course, whenever I type characters to 
be sent on the keyboard, Jaws speaks those keys, which makes for a bit of 
unnecessary QRM in the shack.  I had thought of turning Jaws off, but that 
would make it difficult to enter data into A C Log, for any CW keyboard qsos 
I might have.

I appreciate everyone's putting up with my various e-mails on this topic.  I 
hope they will be at least somewhat informative for anyone else who might be 
interested in trying CW via the keyboard.  Obviously, I'm going to have to 
decide whether the problems I note here can be solved, or whether I might 
want to try another method for this mode of operation.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ