[SCCC] Attention RTTY Contesters

Art - W6KY w6ky at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 16 22:01:52 EDT 2017


If you use the 'mouse-over' option you don't even have to click.

It will not populate a dupe which in addition is a assigned 'dupe'
color....

You can assign a variety of colors for different situations.
Dupe, mult, worked on a different band, etc.....

73, Art  W6KY
w6ky.com
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      From: Dennis Younker NE6I <NE6I at cox.net>
 To: 'Southern California Contest Club' <SCCC at contesting.com> 
 Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 6:32 PM
 Subject: Re: [SCCC] Attention RTTY Contesters
   
I use N1MM+ and MMTY here. 2Tone can be added as a second decoder.  The set up can be run strictly from the keyboard or from the mouse, or a combination of the two. I ran almost exclusively via the mouse this time and liked it better than using a combo of the two. I'd rather click on a call than type it in (for example). The set up does not auto populate name and section fields, or didn't for me (if someone knows something I have missed, please let me know). (On CW and SSB, it does auto populate on second, third, etc. QSOs with the same station.) Clicking on what is sent populates those fields on RTTY, or you could type them from the keyboard. Clicking avoids typos. And I can typo with the best of them! hi hi

The two programs have small enough windows to fit comfortably on one screen (assuming you don't have an old 4:3 13 inch screen or something like that). If you want more of N1MM's windows, you can fit them on one screen to a point. I have three, so I have quite a few windows open but how many one opens is subject to personal taste. N1MM+ is VERY configurable and integrates with MMTY beautifully.

I've not used N3FJP's contest software so I can't speak to it.  I've used FLDIGI for PSK operation but personally don't care for it. However, it has a strong following. I've never used it on RTTY.

--Dennis NE6I

-----Original Message-----
From: SCCC [mailto:sccc-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bob Grubic
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 4:49 PM
To: Southern California Contest Club
Subject: [SCCC] Attention RTTY Contesters

I need some reeeaaaly basic advice.

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Though I am accustomed to operating in CW and Phone contests with both hands on a keyboard, ready to enter the call signs and exchanges into a logging software program, for the first time EVER this past Saturday, I operated in an RTTY contests--the North American RTTY QSO Party. A friend had to come over to get me started with FLDIGI and a Signalink device and after of rough but productive start, I was actually able to make 24 QSOs on my own! Changed a few macros (F-keys) to suite me better. Sent some “ad lib” keyboard comments to a friend. Even read the entire FLDIGI User's Manual.

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What was readily available to me on my computer this time was FLDIGI and N3FJP logging software for the NAQP RTTY Contest. I “linked up” FLDIGI and N3FJP so that the Call field in FLDIGI would automatically populate the Call field in N3FJP, but no more “automation” occurred. The Name and the QTH fields did not populate over. Maybe it’s my lack of knowledge in using these programs, but I had to use the mouse a lot (much to my dislike) and had to shift focus back and forth between FLDIGI and N3FJP (Alt + Tab and then mouse) to enter the proper information before logging the exchange. I did have a lot of fun doing this--for the first time--but I’m so used to operating in CW contests where my fingers don’t leave the keyboard, I found all this mousing a big waste of time. I even searched for keyboard shortcuts for FLDIGI, but there were none of the type I wanted.

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So, what do other RTTY contesters do/use? Is the FLDIGI-N3FJP combination just not adequate? Is N1MM+ and MMTTY a (better) combination that allows both-hands-on-the-keyboard operating? Is there something else that RTTY contesters use? I’d appreciate if someone can point me in the right direction to operate more efficiently in RTTY contests (and/or digital like
PSK31 even). I DON'T want to use a mouse in these contests! Is that possible? Maybe I need 2 monitors?  Help! Digital Newbie here!

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Thanks a lot.

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73,
Bob NC6Q
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