[WriteLog] major WL RTTY problems

[Dick Green]

You're could be right about serial card buffering exceeding the PTT time,
but I was using soundboard AFSK and VOX. No COM ports involved in that.

Computers "been belly belly good to me", but they certainly can be
frustrating. Even after 33 years of technical experience, it's not uncommon
for me to spend hours (sometimes days) troubleshooting a silly problem in
Windows. Makes me wonder what lay-persons do.

73, Dick WC1M

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Thompson, K5ZD [mailto:k5zd@charter.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 9:38 PM
> To: dick.green@valley.net; WriteLog
> Subject: RE: [WriteLog] major WL RTTY problems
>
>
> I don't use MMTTY, just the RTTYRITE that is included in WL.  I have seen
> this problem.
>
> I had some PCI serial port cards that worked great for talking to
> the radio,
> but just wouldn't work for FSK.  It sounded like they were sending the
> characters at very fast speed.  I tried everything and never
> could get them
> to work.  Finally ended up using them for radio control and used
> an ISA card
> and the built-in serial port for FSK.
>
> On some other cards I had problems with the PTT dropping off before the
> transmission was completed.  There are ini file settings that
> will hold the
> PTT on for a set time after transmission is completed.  I assume this
> problem occurs because the characters being sent are pushed into
> a buffer on
> the card and WL thinks the transmission is done when it is not.
>
> Don't you just love computers?!
>
> Randy, K5ZD
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> > [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Dick Green
> > Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 19:54 PM
> > To: WriteLog
> > Subject: [WriteLog] major WL RTTY problems
> >
> >
> > I had the dickens of a time trying to get on this weekend. RTTYRITE and
> > MMTTY were working fine about a year ago, but since then there have been
> > hardware and software upgrades here. This was the first time I've
> > tried RTTY
> > in a while.
> >
> > First, I tried Writelog with MMTTY. Every time I tried to
> transmit with a
> > function key, ALT-K or the MMTTY TX button, the diddle would be
> > asserted for
> > about one second, then would stop.
> >
> > I tried it with just RTTYRITE (no MMTTY) set for Stereo Soundboard AFSK.
> > Same problem.
> >
> > I have two soundboards (Yamaha chip set on motherboard and
> SoundBlaster 16
> > PCI), and both MMTTY and RTTYRITE have the same problem on both
> boards. I
> > tried disabling the Soundblaster, and got the same problem. Same
> > thing if I
> > disabled the Yamaha chips.
> >
> > I tried reinstalling MMTTY and the plug-in. Same problem.
> >
> > Note that MMTTY does *not* have this problem when run in
> > stand-alone mode on
> > either soundboard. It works fine. Looks like a problem with WL.
> >
> > I'm running Windows 2000 SP3, with the latest drivers for everything.
> >
> > BTW, if I terminate MMTTY before RTTYRITE or WL, RTTYRITE crashes. That
> > seems to be a different problem.
> >
> > 73, Dick WC1M
> >
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