Richard,
Not sure why this message got reposted. But as I said in response to the
last posting (8jan02)
Yes, you can manually put the FT847 into CW LSB mode and use the Narrow CW
filter. BUT the FT847 reports to WriteLog (if you are using Rig Control)
that it is in the CW mode, NOT in the LSB mode and thus WriteLog wants to
send CW not AFSK.
So bottom line is still you either get rig control or a cw filter but not
both. And it is useless for RTTY in SSB. Too bad
Jerry, W6IHG
At 05:37 AM 1/12/2002 -0800, Richard Elling wrote:
>Jerry Flanders wrote:
> >
> > The FT847 does not have a dedicated RTTY mode, so you have to use it in the
> > SSB mode. I have both the optional SSB narrow filter (maybe 2.0 KHz- I
> > forget) and the CW narrow filter as well, but there doesn't seem to be a
> > way to use the CW filter when in the SSB mode.
>
>But you can use the LSB mode when in CW :-)
>Press the CW mode key and it toggles on the LSB mode which does a
>frequency shift. Caveat: I haven't tried this with RTTY yet, mainly
>because I can't seem to find anyone on 10-40m running RTTY at this
>moment,
>but it does seem to work fine for PSK31. Also, I send soundboard audio
>in through the MIC connector rather than the data port. I can't attest
>to which SSB/CW mode it picks when audio is sent in via the data port.
>
>Under normal circumstances, we don't need the narrow filters often. But
>given the crowded band and good conditions last weekend, it was almost
>mandatory :-) For the record, we ran W5VZF on the TS-850 though... my
>FT847 stayed at home in CA.
> -- richard, kb4hb
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