Thanks, Steve and Howard, for your latest suggestions.
I really think I'm getting somewhere now with all of this.
As I said before, I hope this discussion thread helps more than just me.
Thanks to all for your patience.
Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: More Progress With CW sending via keyboard with N3FJP AC Log
> Tom,
>
> Turn off the vox on the 590 and you should just hear the sidetone
> without transmitting, or tune to a non ham portion of the band where
> the radio won't tx. . As for jaws maybe toggeling insert-2 to
> "none" will do what you want. If the cw keyboard is a new window,
> maybe you can just silence that window and leave the logging part
> speaking the way you want.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A,
>
> On 9/15/2013 2:42 PM, Tom Behler wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
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