Mmmmm, Bob, your comments on using the Rigblaster are interesting. I spent
some time yesterday with Peter, VE3HG, trying to setup his RigBlaster Pro
for FSK operation.
I found that the RigBlaster Pro would work fine with MMTTY. Then tried with
MMTTY plug-in for Writelog and it worked fine with that too.
If I tried to use Rttywrite, I could not get PTT to operate. The RigBlaster
Pro was wired to have port A as the CW, Rig Cntrl, PTT functions and port B
as FSK. I could see FSK being received by the RigBlaster and if I switched
the rig (ICOM 756) fsk sigs could be heard in a separate receiver.
If I tried any of the single port FSK/CW/PTT combinations, writelog would
not allow selecting the port for Rttywrite to be the same as for CW. The
port had first been selected for CW so that PTT could be used via the serial
port. The computer is running XP and currently has no driver installed for
the LPT.
I never tried running rttywrite with no com port selected! When you tried
that, did it work with FSK?
I think the whole setup for FSK/SSB/CW with RigBlaster is a little complex
but I am sure once it is completed, things will work well and without any
need to adjust anything.
73 de Tony, VE3RZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Naumann - N5NJ" <n5nj@gte.net>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] RTTY Questions
Thanks to everyone for the encouragement to stick with the rttyrite
scrolling. I'll hang in there with you guys for sure.
Now, onto my "rigblaster" situation.
The thing that threw me, was that I had gotten everything working with MMTTY
stand-alone and it worked perfectly. I figured I'd be all set with
Writelog. This proved to be a false assumption.
I have my Rigblaster set up on Com4. I of course, set MMTTY for Com4 and it
worked just fine.
Writelog is normally set up to do PTT & computer generated CW on LPT1
through my ZS4TX Super Combo Keyer. (It also serves as my SO2R switching
box and the rs-232 interface for my ProII.)
I started rttyrite, and set the port for com4. This is the problem. This
does not make rttyrite do ptt on Com4. What I had to do, is leave the
settings for LPT1 alone, and add that Com4 is a CW port in my Writelog port
setup, and contrary to my logic, have no port selected in Rttyrite.
It seems that all is well with the rigblaster after all, but I may "roll my
own" anyway to handle all of the variations for SSB hookups and to just use
FSK.
73,
Bob N5NJ
> ------------Original Message------------
> From: "Bob Naumann - N5NJ" <n5nj@gte.net>
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Date: Sat, Jan-24-2004 10:41 PM
> Subject: [WriteLog] RTTY Questions
>
> I've spent a couple of hours messing around, and made 59 qsos in the BARTG
contest with Writelog, MMTTY, my ProII @100w and a G5RV laying on my roof.
Not bad.
>
> So far, everything seems to work fine, except that I think my Rigblaster
has failed since my afsk tones do not pass through it. I'm not sure why. I
think the PTT may not be pulling in. How am I supposed to configure for the
PTT on the serial port for the rigblaster? My LPT port PTT is working
though - go figure.
>
> I may toss the Rigblaster and just make my own to clear up this mystery.
>
> I have one complaint, and one bug report.
>
> The complaint is regarding the scrolling of the rttyrite screen. How do I
make it stop doing what ever it does where when it fills up the screen, it
goes back up to the top. I don't know where to look. New text should
always appear at the bottom, and then the old text should just scroll up.
>
> The bug report is that I tried to do a timed CQ, and Writelog/MMTTY went
nuts. It started sending my CQ message over and over. I stopped it, and
after that, the memories would not send their contents properly. I shut all
the programs, rebooted the computer, and have not tried a timed CQ again.
>
> RTTY's cool.
>
> 73,
> Bob N5NJ
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