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Re: [WriteLog] MMTTY/2Tone

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Subject: Re: [WriteLog] MMTTY/2Tone
From: "Gary AL9A" <al9a@mtaonline.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 17:58:23 -0800
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Bob,

I too experienced the stuttering halting FSK you have described. What solved the issue for me was to select None under Port in RttyRite and set the FSK port in MMTTY itself. From earlier posts by Ed W0YK, Don AA5AU and Joe W4TV it seems the only way around this buffer error is to prohibit RittyRite from controlling the FSK function and leave that task up to MMTTY. I now let MMTTY control the FSK keying on my main RttyRite window and let the RittyRite clone windows, one with MMTTY with a different profile and the other with 2Tone, just decode and never transmit anything. This has worked out so well for me after numerous tests that I have now uninstalled the MMTTY plug in and am going exclusively with the XMMT.ocx interface. We'll see for sure how this works in the EA RTTY contest this weekend. Should be a good proving ground.

BTW, after uninstalling the plug in, the first time I started RttyRite I got an error message about an item in my list of TU types that had only been partially uninstalled and it asked if I wanted to complete the uninstall. I answered Yes and WL went immediately opened RttyRite. Clicking on TU type showed MMTTY, the plug in, had been removed from the list of options.

73,
Gary AL9A


----- Original Message ----- From: "WB2COY" <wb2coy@hvc.rr.com>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: April 03, 2013 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] MMTTY/2Tone


Some more information......

Further experimentation has confirmed to me that XMMT.ocx or 2Tone has nothing to do with the stuttering or halting FSK output that I am seeing. I started with a clean writelog.ini (No Rttyrite entries) and chose Sound Card FSK as the TU type. I selected my FSK COM port in Ports, and Hardware FSK. When transmitting a Macro, several characters go out, there is a second or so delay, and then the rest of the macro goes out. It can be easily heard in the radio monitor function while transmitting into a dummy load. So this tells me that Joe, W4TV is absolutely right in his assessment that this is a timing issue unrelated to 2Tone or XMMT.ocx, as this anomaly (to me anyway) also appears using the native Writelog RTTY capabilities, with neither XMMT, MMTTY or 2Tone as part of the configuration.

My working configuration using MMTTY and COM port FSK does not have Hardware FSK checked in Rttyrite Ports. It seems that I have to start with a clean writelog.ini and configure Rttyrite and MMTTY in some proper order, otherwise Hardware FSK is checked and greyed out, and MMTTY has COM-TxD(FSK) greyed out as well. If I do things in the correct order, I can get only my COM port checked in Rttyrite Ports, and go to MMTTY Options-Setup and COM-TxD(FSK) can be selected and all is good. This is where I have to be sure to NOT Click on Rttyrite TU type, otherwise Rttyrite locks up.

We’ll see how this performs under real world conditions during the EA-RTTY contest this weekend.

Bob WB2COY



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