Thanks for the clarification Jim. I haven't tried RITTY yet.
In other news, I added a third serial port to my contest computer,
so I can now talk to both radios and the TNC simultaneously.
As a result, I can now use the 2nd radio as a receiver to find
a needed station, the use the new EXCHANGERADIOS function to
quickly work the found station on the TX rig (#1), then swap
radios right back to running. This is almost as good as SO2R,
with just a second RX. As long as EXCHANGERADIOS doesn't choke,
it works very well. EXCHANGERADIOS does sometimes fail (one out
of ten times) probably due to a CI-V packet collision. When it
fails, only one radio changes QRG, with the result being both
radios tuned to the exact same frequency. Not prefect, but
the CI-V protocol is limited, and prone to collisions.
I doubt I'll use the second radio much in the RTTY Sprint, but
it should come in handy for the next regular run 'em contest.
One last micro-nit. I wish EXCHANGERADIOS was called SWAPRADIOS.
There are already many features using the word EXCHANGE. Thanks
for keeping the RTTY mode in mind.
-Kirk K4RO
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:55:31PM -0800, Jim Smith wrote:
> RITTY is a DOS program. It works very well but has no logging
> capability on its own. WriteLog, a Windows program, is able to run
> RITTY and do the usual things such as highlighting received calls to
> show their dupe/mult status, etc. The combination works well but I'd
> rather use TR.
>
> However, I suspect that marrying TR and RITTY would be a big project
> fraught with difficulties so I'm not holding my breath.
>
> 73 de Jim Smith VE7FO Reluctant WL user for RTTY
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