I wonder if an unbroken string of 11 CQ's from a buffer would trigger this?
Such a string happens to me a lot (unfortunately).
Can you be a little more informative about this "easter egg". What harm
does it do? Does it transmit a message? Is it just something to be cleared
from the screen (and how do you clear it)?
Jerry W4UK
At 08:44 AM 3/9/01 -0600, you wrote:
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>I have been, and still am, a paid-licensed, user of RITTY.
>
>Upon the suggestion of a friend I set up WL/RITTY to check out the
>combination.
>I normally run RITTY is FSK mode on my MP.
>You need the latest version of Writelog and latest version of RITTY.
>
>I started Writelog and prepared for the upcoming RTTY contest selecting
>RITTY as the tnc.
>While testing the ptt port I set a buffer to send just the word
>'Testing'.
>Put the MP on the dummy load.
>Hit the buffer F key.
>It printed the word 'testing' on the screen and I could hear through the
>monitor the sounds being transmitted.
>After a couple of tests I got a surprise.
>I found an Easter Egg embedded.
>
>To see the Egg, do what I did and set up a buffer with just the word
>'Testing'. and transmit that buffer 11 times in succession.
>Do not send any other buffer or keystrokes.
>
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