[WriteLog] PTT Drops in RTTY/MMTTY

[Don AA5AU]

There are a myriad of reasons why this will happen.  One that I remember, and helped solve with a friend of mine, was that both software and hardware PTT were active.  In other words, if you use an interface to key PTT on your radio, you should not use PTT via radio control.  If you have a hardware interface for PTT, go to the WriteLog ports menu and uncheck Comm PTT for radio control.  Or you can use Comm PTT but disconnect the hardware PTT interface.

I too experience a rare drop-out but mine only occurs when running SO2R and one radio is set to Auto CQ and I go to transmit on the second radio (using last one wins on the lockout).  If the timing of keying the second radio coincides with Auto CQ starting on the first radio, the second radio will key but then drop out immediately.  The first radio drops as well but this is by design.

73, Don AA5AU

--- On Tue, 11/9/10, Bill Gillenwater <gillie at pa.net> wrote:

> From: Bill Gillenwater <gillie at pa.net>
> Subject: [WriteLog] PTT Drops in RTTY/MMTTY
> To: writelog at contesting.com
> Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 4:18 PM
> I have seen posts regarding PTT drops
> during sending of messages. Right in the middle of a message
> the PTT will drop but the message finishes in the RTTY
> send/receive dialogue box. Has someone figured how to
> eliminate the drops. Do I have the PTT set incorrectly? I am
> using COM PTT in the Config section of Writelog.  I
> read a post that said there is a PTT setting in MTTY??
> 
> thanks Bill K3SV
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