[WriteLog] Auto-CQ Problem with the DXP38

Marty Tippin martyt@pobox.com
Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:10:23 -0700 (PDT)


My DXP-38 has always had a stutter when auto-CQ'ing. I
never worried too much about it. I have a QSK switch
installed in my amp so the rapid switching isn't
really a concern. I also had attributed the pause to
either my specific setup string (I have a %R at the
beginning of every string - which signals to the DXP38
that the transmission is over. 

There is a setting that you can make using the DXP38
software which controls the delay before PTT is
released - maybe that value is set to 0 or some too
small value on your DXP38 - change it to a longer
value and see if that helps.

-Marty NW0L
 martyt@pobox.com


--- Don  Hill <aa5au@msn.com> wrote:
> 
> I used a new DXP38 this weekend.  It was my first
> contest with it.
> I used it on one radio and used a borrowed PK232 on
> the other radio.
> 
> With the DXP38, when WriteLog is set to Auto CQ, the
> transmitter
> would drop very quickly and then come back on at the
> start of the Auto-CQ.
> 
> It would only happen with Auto-CQ.  Hitting the F
> keys manually worked fine.
> Auto-CQ worked fine on the other radio with the
> PK-232.
> 
> It may have something to do with the DXP38 not being
> one of the available
> TNC's in RTTYrite.  Jay, WS7I, sent me part of his
> .ini file last week and it
> showed he was using his DXP38 in the dumb terminal
> mode.  Maybe
> because I was using mine with RTTYrite set to the
> DSP-4100 caused this
> problem.  I don't know.  I also noticed Jay had some
> delay timing set in
> his .ini file for the DXP38, maybe that has
> something to do with it?
> 
> I know it's not an RF problem getting into the
> DXP38, because I turned
> the radio off and watched the LED on the DXP38 and
> it would go to RX
> very quickly at the start of an Auto-CQ.  It would
> not happen on the first CQ
> of an Auto-CQ and not on every CQ afterward, but
> about 95% of them it did.
> 
> The problem didn't slow me down.  I set my CQ
> message to:
> CQ CQ TEST DE AA5AU AA5AU CQ
> 
> The stutter would happen on the first CQ of the
> string.  I think having a CQ at
> the end of the string helped tremendously.  This is
> the first year I used the CQ at
> the end.  I will do it every time now.
> 
> Anyone else having this problem?
> 
> Thanks, Don AA5AU
> 
> 
> 
> 
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-Marty NW0L (ex KI0LO)
 martyt@pobox.com

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