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Re: [WriteLog] Using MMTTY with WriteLog

To: <cfmorris@bellsouth.net>, <writelog@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Using MMTTY with WriteLog
From: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <lists@microham-usa.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:45:37 -0500
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> Remember what I said in that last email, once you've loaded 
> the "MMTTY for Writelog from SM6SRW" (this is just the "shim"), 
> NOT to be confused with MMTTY itself, all control for PTT and 
> FSK relies on the settings within RTTYRite.  That's the reason 
> that the PTT in the MMTTY control panel no longer works. 

After a little experimentation, what really happens is that 
"Software generated FSK" is RTTYrite's cue to bypass MMTTY 
on transmission.  When using the "Software generated FSK"
settings the MMTTY plug-in is used only for receive! 

73, 

   ... Joe, W4TV 
 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-bounces@contesting.com 
> [mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Charles Morrison
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 7:04 PM
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Cc: lists@microham-usa.com; 'Don Hill AA5AU'; 'Rick Lindquist'
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Using MMTTY with WriteLog
> 
> 
> > Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:39:18 -0500
> > From: "Rick Lindquist" <n1rl@earthlink.net>
> > Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Using MMTTY with WriteLog
> > To: "'Joe Subich, W4TV'" <lists@microham-usa.com>,  "'Don 
> Hill AA5AU'"
> >     <aa5au@bellsouth.net>, <writelog@contesting.com>
> > Cc: jcarcia@arrl.org, 'Charles Morrison' <cfmorris@bellsouth.net>
> > 
> > Greetings!
> > 
> > Success at last! Hallelujah!
> > 
> > One other thing I needed to do was make some changes to the 
> jumpers on my
> > RIGblaster Plus. The jumper pattern I wound up with is NOT 
> one that West
> > Mountain Radio suggests in the manual, so it was helpful to 
> know that I
> > wanted the PTT on RTS (already knew that keying was on 
> TXD). Curiously,
> with
> > these settings I can no longer do "Sound Board FSK" with RittyRite,
> although
> > I might be overlooking something there.
> > 
> > One thing that may have been leading me astray as I tried various
> > configurations is that clicking the TX button on the MMTTY 
> plug-in window
> > does NOT put the transceiver into transmit as it does with the MMTTY
> > standalone program. I had to hit one of the F keys to play 
> back a stored
> > message in order to trip the PTT and send data. This is 
> something worth
> > pointing out to others, I believe.
> 
> Remember what I said in that last email, once you've loaded 
> the "MMTTY for
> Writelog from SM6SRW" (this is just the "shim"), NOT to be 
> confused with
> MMTTY itself, all control for PTT and FSK relies on the 
> settings within
> RTTYRite.  That's the reason that the PTT in the MMTTY 
> control panel no
> longer works.  Think of it this way, if the PTT port setting 
> in MMTTY would
> actually be active, it would immediately conflict with the 
> PTT port selected
> in RTTYRite.  The software generated FSK corrects the problem 
> with some USB
> converters.. remember the Belkin FD103whateveritis doesn't 
> require this..
> only the ones that don't support the 5bit codes.
> 
> I too was unable to get Software FSK to work (just to test 
> with Rick) while
> using the Microkeyer.  However it's a nonissue, since 
> directly selecting the
> port has always worked just fine.  I guess probably because 
> of the fact that
> the Microkeyer is much more then a USB-Serial converter.
> 
> Charlie
> KI5XP
> 
> 
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