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K1EL WinKeyer3 User Manual

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  • Page 1 WKmini USB Rev B WinKeyer3 Morse Interface User Manual www.k1el.com Revision 1.2...
  • Page 2 WKmini is not used as intended, WKmini is connected incorrectly, Safety guidelines outlined in this document are not followed, or WKmini is modified in any way. K1EL cannot be held responsible in these or other similar events. WKmini Rev B User Manual 2/16/2022 Rev 1.2...

  • Page 3: Usb Drivers

    .exe and a zip file containing the individual drivers as used by Windows Update. Please read through Appendix A for our recommended install procedure. Drivers for Mac and Linux are also available on the WKmini B website. Contact K1EL if you need guidance for those installations.
  • Page 4 Let’s actually run WKmini ! Once the USB driver is installed and you have plugged WKmini into your PC, you can determine WK’s port assignment using K1EL’s WKscan app: https://www.k1elsystems.com/WKscan.html WKscan Tutorial After you have installed WKscan, start it up and you will see the dialog box shown at left.
  • Page 5 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual WKdemo tutorial WK3DEMO is a general purpose test application that can exercise all of WKmini’s capabilities: https://www.k1elsystems.com/files/WK3demo_41_setup.exe Once the application is installed, start it up and you will see the dialog box show at left. All you need to do to get started is to configure the serial communications port.
  • Page 6 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual The sidetone options on the WKdemo setup display must be enabled. If serial echo is on in Setup then what you type will be echoed in the upper text window as it is sent.
  • Page 7 In other words there are only two leads, ground and key control. For that reason a keying cable is quite easy to build. K1EL.com sells a universal keying cable kit that covers 95% of keying requirements. Keying cable details (also see page 8) An 1/8”...

  • Page 8: Troubleshooting Hints

    K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual Paddle Connection If you decide to use a set of keying paddles with WKmini, they plug into the paddle jack input on the left side of the unit. An 1/8 inch stereo jack is used on WKmini, if your paddles have a 1/4 inch size plug an adapter cable will be necessary.
  • Page 9 6) I get an “Access to Port xx denied” message. This probably means that one of the other K1EL programs or a non-K1EL program is open, perhaps in the background out of sight, and is still using the port, thereby locking out all other programs from accessing the port.

  • Page 10: Theory Of Operation

    K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual Theory of Operation This section will briefly describe how WKmini works. As shown in the block diagram below, the host PC is connected to WKmini over a USB com port. WKmini receives commands and Morse letters from the PC.
  • Page 11 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual Paddle Input Priority WKmini accepts input from either its host port or iambic paddle port. Paddle input will always take priority and will interrupt host data, automatically clearing WKmini’s serial input buffer. When a paddle break-in occurs, any additional serial data that arrives from the host will be processed, but will be ignored unless it is an immediate command.
  • Page 12 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual ASCII Code Assignments, Prosign Mapping WKmini maps several unused ASCII codes to standard prosigns as shown in the table below. Additional prosigns can be generated using the merge character command. Some abbreviations are not mapped (null), WK will ignore these if received.
  • Page 13 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual N1MM Interfacing You will first need to know your WKmini’s comport assignment, if you don’t know it, follow the WKscan Tutorial on page 4. Now start up N1MM+ and click on the Config Tab and then select the entry as shown: This brings up the Configurer dialog box.
  • Page 14 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual Clicking Set brings up the Com2 configuration dialog box. All we need to do here is click the WinKey checkbox, leave all the other settings as is. Now click OK to close the Com2 configuration dialog box which brings us back the Configurer dialog box.
  • Page 15 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual There are very descriptive hints on most of the controls. Winkey 2 options also apply to WK3 based keyers. Disable Paddle Only Sidetone for initial testing purposes. Winkey Speed Control has three options:...
  • Page 16 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual Now on the PC's keyboard enter CTL-T to put WKmini into tune mode. Cancel tune mode by entering CTL-T a second time. With tune enabled you should hear sidetone coming from WKmini.
  • Page 17 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual The CW keyboard window is now displayed and you can type into it to send letters to WKmini. Note that when the Send CW window is up, the main N1MM+ dialog box is disabled. For a final test, turn the speed pot and you should see the CW Speed display in the main N1MM+ dialog box change.
  • Page 18 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual Running WK 3.1 with N1MM+ in RTTY mode Since WKmini has a WK 3.1 controller IC, you can run it with N1MM+ in RTTY mode. Bring up the Configurer dialog for Winkeyer and you will see a new RTTY mode selection option: Click on Enable RTTY and then set a delay in both Lead Time and Tail Time;...
  • Page 19 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual Click Setup->Settings to bring up the Digital Setup Window, click on the Message Setup tab and then select “Other, TinyFSK, Winkey” from the drop down menu. Using the picture below as a guide, click Tx, then enter [ in the message Text Window followed by Save Settings.
  • Page 20 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual The fastest way to get into RTTY mode is to enter RTTY in the entry box as shown and hit Enter. Now go back to the Digital Interface window, and select your desired RTTY operational modes: Now you are all set to run N1MM+ in RTTY mode with WKmini.
  • Page 21 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual HRD Interface Guide You will first need to know your WKmini’s comport assignment, if you don’t know it, follow the WKscan Tutorial on page 4. Start HRD and click on the DM780 icon in the upper left corner of the application. If it’s not visible, you may have to enable program view as show on the left.
  • Page 22 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual Now Connect changes to Connected and items in the dialog box are no longer grayed out. If you click Auto-connect, DM780 will connect to Winkeyer automatically on startup. A speed slider allows you to change WinKeyer speed while you are in this dialog box for testing.
  • Page 23 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual If you click on the PTT/Sidetone tab a list of hardware options are displayed. Winkeyer1 settings are historical and can be ignored. Even though WKmini uses a WinKeyer 3 IC, the Winkeyer2 settings are the ones we are concerned with.
  • Page 24 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual The Options tab contains settings to adjust the timing of the Morse sent by WinKeyer. These settings are discussed in detail in Appendix D of this document. Also listed are settings for PTT timing.
  • Page 25 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual N3FJP AC Log Interface Guide Start AC Log. From the main application page, select the Settings->Transmit->CW Setup tab. That will bring up the CW Setup Form shown below. A list of the active com ports are shown, click on the one WKmini is assigned to.
  • Page 26 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual This brings up a form that presents the Winkeyer options that can be modified. First thing to do is click Open. That connects AC Log to WKmini, the status will change to Open and WKmini’s firmware revision will be displayed.
  • Page 27 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual MRP40 Interface Guide This is one of my favorite applications to use with WKmini. It’s not a logging program but instead it’s a conversational, Morse terminal. It has an excellent CW reader that uses your PC’s sound card to perform DSP tone detection.
  • Page 28 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual FLdigi Interface Guide This is another very powerful amateur radio application. It’s quite easy to set FLdigi up to use Winkeyer in either CW or RTTY mode. If you don’t know the comport that your WKmini is connected to, use our WKscan app.
  • Page 29 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual Once Winkeyer has been selected and configured, FLdigi will open it automatically when is starts next time so you won’t have to go through this setup procedure every time. Running WK3 with FLdigi in RTTY mode Since WKmini uses a WK 3.1 controller IC, you can run it with FLdigi in RTTY mode.
  • Page 30 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual Running WK3demo Version 4.0 in RTTY mode An easy way to test out WKmini 3.1 in RTTY mode interface is to run it with WK3demo 4.0. Since WKdemo only does RTTY transmit, you will need a means to read and decode received RTTY signals.
  • Page 31 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual window. This will key your transceiver and assert the FSK output to the mark state. Since we selected Diddle on, it will start sending blank characters until we actually enter some text.
  • Page 32 If that is not possible post an inquiry on the K1EL Yahoo Group. Odds are that there is someone else in the group who has used the app and they can give you first hand advice. If no one picks up the trail, we will jump in and do what we can.

  • Page 33: Appendix A - Installing The Ch340 Usb Driver For Wkmini

    K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual Appendix A - Installing the CH340 USB Driver for WKmini As mentioned, don’t plug WKmini in yet, we have to deal with the USB driver first. For Windows, first thing to do is create a folder on your PC called CH340 or something similar, the name doesn’t really matter.

  • Page 34: Appendix B - Wkmini Usb Com Port Assignment Information

    K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual Appendix B – Wkmini USB COM port assignment information Win 7 and newer Com Port Viewing and Reassignment First of all we need to get a device list. The easiest way to do this is to click the Start button in the lower left which will bring up a search edit box.
  • Page 35 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual You will get this pop up when you pick an ‘in use’ port. If you are sure the port is not assigned to any other serial com device, click Yes and then continue on to close all remaining dialog boxes.
  • Page 36 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual Expand (COM & LPT) Look for USB Serial Port (COMx) x is the port In the example above, the USB com port assignment is 4. If you have multiple USB Serial Ports listed and you are not sure which one is WK, disconnect WK from the computer and see which one is removed from the list.

  • Page 37: Appendix C - Winkeyer Settings Defined

    K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual Appendix C – WinKeyer Settings Defined Weighting A proportional amount is either added or subtracted from the length of all transmitted dits and dahs. A value of 50 selects no weighting adjustment. Values less than 50 reduce weighting and values greater than 50 increase weighting.
  • Page 38 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual DELAY_TIME = (SWITCHPOINT×DIT_TIME)/50 where Switchpoint is a value between 10 and 90. Dit/Dah Ratio The ratio between the length of a dit vs. the length of a dah is controlled by this setting. The agreed upon standard s ratio is 1:3 (dit:dah), a dah is three times longer than a dit.
  • Page 39 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual HangTime = 0: wait 1 wordspace + 1 dit before ending paddle insertion HangTime = 1: wait 1 wordspace + 2 dits before ending paddle insertion HangTime = 2: wait 1 wordspace + 4 dits before ending paddle insertion...
  • Page 40 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual dahs automatically in response to single paddle presses, but when both paddles are pressed either dit or dah has priority. Speed Pot Lock (not applicable to WKmini) This tells WK to ignore host speed control and to instead lock the current sending speed to the speed pot.
  • Page 41 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual Topical Index   Introduction _________________________________________________________________ 2   What is WinKeyer and why do I need it ? _________________________________________ 2   WKmini Features _____________________________________________________________ 2   Let’s Get Started ! ______________________________________ Error! Bookmark not defined.
  • Page 42 K1EL WKmini B WKmini USB WinKeyer User Manual   Keying Compensation   Letterspace   Paddle Sample Delay   Dit/Dah Ratio   PTT Lead and Tail Times   Paddle Watchdog   Paddle Swap   Paddle Only Sidetone   Paddle Mute  ...