[WriteLog] FT847 and RTTY

[Jerry Pixton]

Richard,

Yes, But

Writelog very well tracks what mode the RX is in and switches to CW when 
you switch the RX VFO to CW-LSB. So yes, you could get the CW narrow filter 
active but Writelog would not be able to send RTTY. Looks like it might 
work fine for CW however. I even tried the SAT mode where the VFOs would 
track. But Writelog is probably sending the CAT command to read the Main 
VFO (there are also commands to read the Sat Rx and the Sat Tx vfos). 
Apparently the FT847, reports the RX vfo as the Main VFO when in Satellite 
mode.

Oh, well it is a nice satellite rig

Jerry, W6IHG


At 09:57 PM 1/7/2002 -0800, Richard Elling wrote:
>Jerry Flanders wrote:
> >
> > The FT847 does not have a dedicated RTTY mode, so you have to use it in the
> > SSB mode. I have both the optional SSB narrow filter (maybe 2.0 KHz- I
> > forget) and the CW narrow filter as well, but there doesn't seem to be a
> > way to use the CW filter when in the SSB mode.
>
>But you can use the LSB mode when in CW :-)
>Press the CW mode key and it toggles on the LSB mode which does a
>frequency shift.  Caveat: I haven't tried this with RTTY yet, mainly
>because I can't seem to find anyone on 10-40m running RTTY at this
>moment,
>but it does seem to work fine for PSK31.  Also, I send soundboard audio
>in through the MIC connector rather than the data port.  I can't attest
>to which SSB/CW mode it picks when audio is sent in via the data port.
>
>Under normal circumstances, we don't need the narrow filters often.  But
>given the crowded band and good conditions last weekend, it was almost
>mandatory :-)  For the record, we ran W5VZF on the TS-850 though... my
>FT847 stayed at home in CA.
>  -- richard, kb4hb

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