[WriteLog] LSB is really FSK

[Don Melcher]

Yep - OK - well, I was assuming the process the other way around in that I
would be using WriteLog to tell the radio what mode I was operating, then I
would tune the radio - as long as I stayed in the same mode on the program
and stayed in L(U)SB on the radio - WL would log it as a Data QSO - If I was
using WL for a day-to-day logging program, or on a DX pedition, I would
expect it to operate this way also - but I get your point - FD is out of the
"norm" for contest - and no thanks - I am not ambitious enough to deal with
a second radio right now - had my fill of that with a customer's station and
CT... ;) - plus - I can't get enough com ports to work right at this time -
maybe I will have to build a dedicated contest computer for the shack where
I can free up some IRQ's to install a multiple port card - that was what I
was TRYING to avoid by switching from CT to WL - But as long as I can get WL
to work properly, I probably won't go back - as I said - that band map
window is way too cool!!! and I can run it on my lap-tops using the sound
card for DVK!!!

Oh goody - my keyboard templates just came in the mail - that will help a
lot.

Don
W6ZO

-----Original Message-----
From: Marty Tippin [mailto:martyt@pobox.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 11:03 AM
To: Don Melcher; writelog@contesting.com
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] LSB is really FSK


At 12:21 PM 6/16/2001 , Don Melcher wrote:
>The issue is that Feild Day is a Multi-Mode contest - and it seems to me
>this is how it should work - when you have "LSB is really FSK" checked -
the
>program should put the radio in LSB mode when you select FSK as the mode
for
>the contact, and of course score it as a "data" QSO - and maybe that is how
>it is working (though it did not initially indicate so) - I haven't had
time
>to further explore it, but it seems that the "wording" of the switch is
>backwards - and perhaps, since the program also does PSK31 - it should be
>"Data is really LSB" (or USB).

I'm not sure if this has been made clear enough or not:

Writelog figures out the mode you're using based on what the *radio* is set
to, not the other way around. So the "LSB is really FSK" option tells
WriteLog to assume that you're working RTTY (AFSK, FSK, doesn't matter)
whenever you put the radio in LSB mode. That's the only way Writelog can
understand that you want to do RTTY and not SSB when you put the radio in
LSB - without that option, WriteLog will log contacts as being on phone
mode anytime the radio is in LSB, and it won't send the programmed function
key macros for RTTY - it'll try to send wave files from the digital voice
recorder instead.

Field Day is the only contest I know of that allows as many different modes
- most are either digital, CW or SSB only. So what that means is, you're
going to have to turn on or off that check box as appropriate depending on
what mode you're running (or, dedicate a rig to CW and digital modes only
and another to SSB)

-Marty NW0L
  martyt@pobox.com





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