I continue to be unable to get Rittyrite to function correctly when trying
to run PSK. My setup info is in the message below from Aug. 14.
Yesterday I was playing around with the DxbPSK software (modified WinPSK)
that writes directly to my DXBase 2006 log. I noticed that when I
transmitted from a F key memory buffer my MKII LCD screen would display
"TRANSMITTING" while sending the message. When I go to WL and start
Rittyrite and attempt to send a F key memory buffer the MKII LCD screen
displays "PLAYING". This is what the MKII displays when playing SSB wav
files from a memory location. As I've stated before it appears that with
the IC-7600 in USB-D1 mode WL is for some reason sending the wav file
messages from the SSB buffers rather than the text messages stored in the
CW/RTTY message locations.
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the IC-7600 radio driver or the way
WL interfaces to Vista. I would like to try a test to see if the problem
might lie in the IC-7600 radio driver. Before the driver for the IC-7600
was added to WL I used the driver for the IC-7800 and that worked ok. I had
to modify the hex address in the 7800 driver to make it the default for the
7600. Problem is I now am unable to remember the WL radio driver file name
and where it is stored. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
73,
Gary AL9A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary AL9A" <al9a@mtaonline.net>
To: "Writelog Reflector" <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: August 14, 2010 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Rittyrite PSK
> Ok, making some progress, but now find I'm unable to transmit PSK. Here
> is my configuration.
>
> Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit, WriteLog V10.78K, Icom-7600, microHAM
> microKEYER II. In Rittyrite I have the following selected: Com port None,
> Mode BPSK, TU Type Sound Board AFSK. On the Setup/Ports menu I have DVK
> type set to Windows sound board. I can receive PSK signals and they are
> printing ok in Rittyrite. My problem is transmit.
>
> I have the IC-7600 mode set to USB-D1 which mutes the mike and puts audio
> output onto ACC1 pin 4. This configuration works with my normal PSK
> software. In WL, when I press memory F key the radio goes into TX and the
> MK II front panel LED's for PTT1 and SC (sound card) light up and the MK
> II display screen shows "Playing", indicating it is playing a memory
> message. Problem is I sometimes hear muted SSB audio messages playing and
> other times I hear nothing at all. If I play an F key memory with no SSB
> audio message assigned to it an error message pops up saying that the wav
> file could not be found. That's an error message associated with USB or
> LSB modes. I'm set as USB-D1. So why is WL playing wav files?
>
> If I keep trying the F keys eventually the wav file audio ceases, but the
> MK II indicates something is being played, I'm just not sure what. I
> suspect it is still playing wav file recordings rather than the messages
> in the CW/RTTY memory banks. There are no PSK tones in the headphones or
> on the speaker and nothing is being printed to the Rittyrite screen. Both
> S/Po and ALC meters show no output at all. (They did show output when the
> audio memories were mistakenly being played and I could hear them.) I
> don't believe there is a problem with the radio because it works fine with
> DxbPSK used with my general logger.
>
> I have never attempted to use PSK in WL before so I'm not sure if there is
> a bug in V10.78K that wasn't there before or if there is an issue with the
> sound card under Vista. I've checked all the sound card settings in Vista
> and nothing is muted and the volume levels look appropriate. I know there
> was a sound board issue with Vista and Rittyrite not working for CW in a
> beta version of 10.78, but that was corrected with the latest release.
> Unless there is something different about running BPSK instead of CW? If
> anyone has an idea of what I should check next please let me know.
>
> 73,
> Gary AL9A
>
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