Connect iambic cw paddles to your computer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- This video will demonstrate how to hook up your iambic paddles to the serial port of your computer in order to use a software cw keyer like MORSE KEYER. You will be able to send and hear morse code with your cw paddles in high fidelity, low latency, and excellent cw timing performance when using as ASIO SOUND CARD with its own ASIO DRIVER. You are also able to use this method at the same time, to send the same morse code audio tones generated by MORSE KEYER to go out over the internet on programs like QSONET, CWCOM, HAMSPHERE, iCW etc....
Here are the links mentioned in this video:
1. www.amazon.com/...
2. www.behringer.c...
3. www.amazon.com/...
4. www.radioshack....
5. www.zzounds.com...
6. www.labbookpage...
7. www.db9-pinout....
8. qsonet.com/dahd...
9. qrqcwnet.ning.c...
10. morse-rss-news....
NOTE: if your computer has a LINE IN audio jack, use that instead of the MIC IN jack. There is much less noise on the LINE IN jack.
NOTE: it may be best match all sample rates between the BEHRINGER, and the MIC or LINE input jack of your computer soundcard and all inputs and outputs, including STEREO MIX of the computer soundcard itself. You can select the sample rates in both the ASIO CONTROL of the BEHRINGER and the windows sound control screen.
set everything listed on both the PLAYBACK and RECORDING tab of the windows control for both the BEHRINGER and your COMPUTER SOUND CARD to the same sample rate
NOTE: using an audio derived cw keying switch circuit, you can also use this setup to key your rig, (need to turn off the sidetone of your rig though) The Behringer has an active - always on - headphone jack- and you can use that audio to go out to the input of an AUDIO DERIVED CW KEYING CIRCUIT, which will then key your rig for you...so at the same time the audio from the BEHRINGER is going out from the LINE OUT JACKS, through a ground loop isolation audio cable to the input of your computer sound card, you can also at the same time, take that same audio out of the BEHRINGER headphone jack and connect it to an audio derived cw keying circuit and key your rig.
You can monitor the audio from your RIG's audio out, to the BEHRINGER LINE IN jacks, by using PEDALBOARD2 to transfer the audio from your BEHRINGER LINE INPUT over to the computer soundcard. For more info go here: qrqcwnet.ning.c...
You will then not only hear your own cw audio tones made from MORSE KEYER from the BEHRINGER, but whatever is hooked to the LINE IN jacks of the BEHRINGER, ie, your rigs audio output, you can also hear that too.
You have to be able to monitor the audio coming into the MIC IN or LINE IN jack of your computer's native sound card - you must UNMUTE in the WINDOWS SOUND PROPERTIES, SPEAKERS PROPERTIES, Levels, the MICROPHONE or LINE IN slider...
if you do not have a slider control on this screen, this video tutorial will not work and you will have to search for a modification to force that "slider" to appear.
Please see this picture of the windows sound control for monitoring input by unmuting it and adjusting the volume slider here: www.sagebrush.c...
and here: screencloud.ne...
Here are some examples of audio derived cw keying circuits:
qrqcwnet.ning.c...
NOTE: Morse Keyer does not have an ASIO CONTROL tab so
you have to use another program that does, so that you can bring
up the Behringer's ASIO CONTROL and set it to "FAST" to lower
the latency as much as possible. There are two lower latency settings than FAST, but on my computer they did not work.
I was able to use PEDALBOARD2 to bring up the ASIO control
for the BEHRINGER: screencloud.ne...
NOTE: as of 6-13-2016, Behringer no longer has its own ASIO driver: www.music-group...
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Thanks for this; I just found it a long while after you published it.
Clear message, clear structure, easy to understand, thank you
Thanks for sharing this but I'm confused. Do you have the Bencher wired in through the Behringer? Or is it plugged into the computer via a USB to serial port connector?
@Gene Pierson The paddle contacts, DIT, DAH, and GROUND, are "wired" to the appropriate USB to SERIAL PORT adapter pins...the MORSE APP is using the asio driver on the Behringer, for better cw timing and lower latency audio response from hitting the paddles & hearing the sidetone
Thanks for your nice explanation (btw: I find screen casts like yours a bit confusing, especially during windows switching; I would have considered a Power Point presentation + actual demo of the Morse Keyer software in the background).
May I kindly ask you how to have simultaneous voice + CW ? Say that I take part to a CW Skype class, where and how would you do the (software) mixing between the BEHRINGER output and (some other) microphone... ?
Thank you for your comments and suggestions, good points you bring up ...
RE: mixing MIC and CW, i would take a look at VoiceMeeter PRO(VM) vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Voicemeeter/banana.htm, VM will let you bring in 3 hardware inputs AND 2 virtual cable inputs.
You can mix any or all of these 5 inputs, and send them to multiple VM outputs. If you want to use SKYPE for voice and morse code, I would use the 2 virtual cables included in VM to connect with SKYPE input and SKYPE output... one VM VIRTUAL AUDIO CABLE for SKYPE INPUT and use the other VM virtual audio cable for the SKYPE OUTPUT...that way you prevent the output of SKYPE getting back into the INPUT of SKYPE.
there are many videos about using and setting up VoiceMeeter in this YT channel as well as many submissions on VB-AUDIO's facebook page...facebook.com/vbaudiosoftware/
just hook up your mic and choose if for one of the VM inputs...for the MORSE CODE input to SKYPE, i would use VM 's own ASIO INPUT drivers that connect to either one of the virtual audio cable VIRTUAL VM inputs...each cable has its own ASIO DRIVER...you'll have to read the VM manual to read up on the how to....on either of the VIRTUAL INPUTS of VM, you can select to shoot that morse code audio to the SKYPE INPUT and at the same time direct it to your sound card in low latency so you can hear it. There are quite a few other videos in this YT channel that demo other software cw keyers that you could use too...
MIDI also work too!!
Can I use that setup also for the Morse Runner software?
Morse Runner does not have the feature of using a serial port on the computer for any of its functions.
how in the world do u contect you paddles to the the interface
i use a USB to SERIAL PORT ADAPTER...and then just hook the paddles up to the appropriate db9 serial port pins, CTS, DTR, DSR here is how they use the serial port on dahdidah's software cw keyer - qsonet.com/doc/dahdidah.pdf
Hi Do i firstly connect the DB9 to serial port, for paddle after the 3 conections, then ground loop isolater to the Behringer, do i need to connect the USB of the behringer to pc?,
Many thanks
Ray
Hi Ray, The first thing i would try is just a simpler setup using a different software keyer....I would choose Dahdidah
echo.qsonet.com/viewtopic.php?forumid=10&topicid=785
from QSOnet. Tell Dahdidah what your serial port number is....and choose your normal computer sound card for Dahdidah's playback device....you will see the dahdidah LED's light up if you have connected your paddles and/or keys to the serial port pins correctly. Once you are familiar with the basic setup and can test all 4 of the serial port pins that dahdidah has for options, and see the LED's light up on the dahdidah control panel gui...when you "key" them with your morse instruments, then i would move to the more advanced and complicated setups.
please read the PDF MANUAL for dahdidah, at the same link...
Download the manual here...
qsonet.com/dahdidah.pdf
- you don't need anything else for now....
- the manual will show you how to hook up your paddles to the serial port...
is too much complicated! just get in the second store a regular mouse and connect the firts click bottom and the settings rigth bottom with a resistance and thats all get the software and less that 10min ON AIR!!! cost!$2.50