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Subject: [ct-user] Recording With DVP
From: k2kir@telenet.net (Bud Hippisley, K2KIR)
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:05:26 -0400
At 11:32 PM 2002-10-24 , WRIX wrote:
>I'm using CT and have a DVP card in the computer.  I have recorded my CQ and
>Exchange messages with no problem.  I would like to know how to record the
>alphabet phonetically, letter by letter, so I can use another feature of the
>program.  I'm not able to find any instructions in ASCII format explaining
>this procedure.

You are looking for the "DVP Edit" function, accessible in earlier releases of 
CT by typing "DVP" on the logging line and pressing "Enter".

As best I can determine, DVP Edit works as of CT v. 9.63, then appears (from a 
review of the accumulated postings on the [ct-user] archives) to go in and out 
of operability with different revisions since then.  It does not work with 9.70 
and 9.80 -- in my shack, at least.

I have asked Ken if there's a chance he could reinstate it, but have seen no 
response yet.

Experimenting a few weeks ago, I could get 9.63 to record and send 2-character 
and 3-character prefixes and suffixes, but could not get it to send individual 
characters.  As a test, I recorded the two-letter combinations "ON" and "UN", 
and then recorded the ten individual call area numbers.  (I know they're 
recorded because I can see the files on my hard drive.)  But when I typed 
"ON4UN" and hit the Insert key, what came out was "ONUN", with the "4" missing. 
 So then I recorded "ON4" and "UN", which came out properly.  (And, FWIW, I 
don't think these 2-character and 3-character combinations sound so bad.)

Until this morning I had hoped that one work-around might be to use 9.63 to 
record all my prefix and suffix combinations, and then use 9.80 or later to 
actually enter the upcoming contests.  Unfortunately, version 9.80 does not 
respond to call signs in the logging line -- if I type in "ON4UN", all I get 
for DVP audio output is "five nine oh five" (the exchange I've programmed into 
F2 for the CQ WW Phone contest).  So while it is still possible to store the 
function key messages in current versions of CT, it is not possible to send 
call signs.

Bottom line, for now at least -- if you want to use the DVP's full 
capabilities, it appears from my very limited experimentation that you will 
have to use an earlier version of CT.  Perhaps a flood of postings here might 
convince Ken that I'm not the only one interested in having the full DVP 
feature set reinstated.

Bud, K2KIR 





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