[RTTY] K or carriage return

[Bill, W6WRT]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:58:02 -0500, Al Kozakiewicz
<akozak at hourglass.com> wrote:

>
>I don't know for sure why, but I observe it dozens of times in any contest.  I suspect the interface design.  A character is probably still in the serial interface buffer but the software thinks it's done sending and drops the PTT.  PTT shouldn't drop until the interface buffer is empty.  You can't always do that reliably if you're relying strictly on computer software to control everything - you might need to add a one-shot delay after the last character is pushed to the interface before you drop PTT.
>
>Since I can't be sure that my interface isn't causing a problem, I add the space just to be sure.

REPLY:

That's interesting. In my own case, using MMTTY, I am pretty sure that
isn't happening. I monitor my own transmissions with a separate computer
and different software and have not seen the software do that. I will
watch for it more closely in the future just in case. Thanks for the
heads up.

73, Bill W6WRT