[WriteLog] FSK fail during the RTTY sprint yesterday

Jeff Stai wk6i.jeff at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 15:29:00 EDT 2025


I'm on version 12.69G, Win10 on one Lenovo mini PC. (This WL version does
not have a K4 selection so I was using K3 as the rig selection.) Everything
is connected via USB ports.

I have a K3S (with a second RX) and a K4D. Both are connected via USB
ports. FSK is provided via Mortty V4 running TinyFSK, one for each radio.

I haven't done single PC SO2R in a while, preferring to have one PC per
radio. One of many reasons I still prefer Writelog. I was perhaps a bit too
frisky and set up for the main and sub/2nd RX for a total of 4 entry
windows ("4 radios") - the K4 on 1&2, the K3 on 3&4. The Rttyrite windows
have MMTTY in the 1st window (MMTTY TX is off, Rttyrite is doing the TX)
and 2tone in 2 clones; each Rttyrite window has its own copy of MMTTY or
2tone per the normal convention. At this point everything is working
perfectly.

After a handful of Qs I realized this wasn't working for me - too much
entry window hopping - and decided to go back to one main entry per radio.
I selected 2 radios, and reconfigured entry 2 for the K3 main. I'm a little
murky here on how I did this because I had to sort out the sound source for
the various Rttyrite windows and make sure the 1st Rttyrite windows had the
correct Mortty selected (COM18 for the K4 on entry 1, COM5 for the K3 on
entry 2).

After getting it all sorted I went to jump back into the test, but I
realized the radios were not getting keyed to transmit. Or rather, the K4
would key for a half second and shut off independent of message length, and
the K3 not at all. (Each radio gets PTT from the Mortty.)

I tried several things to recover, including choosing command PTT,
restarting the PC, shutting off the PC, starting a new log file, and wiping
out the Rttyrite and entry window sections of the INI file and restarting
Writelog. I finally gave up and used AFSK to get back on the air.

I can't think of anything else to try short of uninstalling and
reinstalling Writelog (and I hope that will work!)

Any thing else to try first, or other thoughts? 73 jeff wk6i

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Jeff Stai ~ WK6I ~ wk6i.jeff at gmail.com
RTTY op at W7RN


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