[Dx4win] MMTTY xmit & rcv keys

[Larry Gauthier]

Dave (et al),

Actually, there is very good news on the "oh no, not enough serial port"
front!!

MixW software has developed a "serial port emulation program" that mimics
two hardware serial ports talking to each other, thus eliminating the need
for two additional serial ports to get MMTTY and DX4WIN communicating. The
program is available for free download from their web site.

See: http://www.mixw.net/related.htm

I have just found this site today (after doing a google search) and am very
excited about the possibilities for DX4WIN users that want to run RTTY
without the hassle and cost of adding serial ports.

I'll report back if/when I get this software working - but from the looks of
the web site this should be straightforward. If someone else has already
made it work... please let me know.

-larry
K8UT

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave" <nr1dx@arrl.net>
To: <dx4win@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] MMTTY xmit & rcv keys


> Floyd et all
>
> For most of the standard  messages the transmit and receive commands can
be
> embedded in the DX4WIN pre-programmed RTTY message function keys using "/"
> and "%T" at the end of the line.The most useful info I have seen on this
> was sent to me a few weeks ago by Larry K8UT and John WA9ALS. The info is
> on John's WEB page at....
>
> http://www.qsl.net/wa9als/dx4win-mmtty-macros.rtf .
>
> For the uninitiated with a couple of extra COM ports on your computer  the
> info on setting up your system to use MMTTY with DX4WIN is at
> http://www.qsl.net/wa9als/dx4win-mmtty-hardware.rtf
> Doing this in no way affects the use of MMTTY with Writelog, but as I said
> above it will cost you two extra COM ports ( one of which was no longer
> needed when I retired my PK-232 so really I only needed one more COM port)
>
> IF your radio supports FSK then making a simple "one transistor  modem"
> (and yet another COM port ......well I have 10 COM ports on my PC don't
you
> ...8^) will allow MMTTY to key your radio FSK input directly rather than
> use AFSK and the additional problems associated with that approach.
>
>
> At 11:43 AM 6/12/02 -0400, Floyd Sense wrote:
> >When using MMTTY with DX4WIN for RTTY work, I found it cumbersome to use
> >CTRL-T and CTRL-R to switch between transmit and receive.  I'm now using
a
> >key remapping program called "Keyboard Remapper" to assign those
keystroke
> >combinations to single keys.  For example, I'm using the numeric keypad
"+"
> >key for transmit, and the Enter key just below it for receive.  I've
tried
> >several of the keyboard remapping utilities and this one seems to provide
> >the best function and operational flexibility.  For details and free
> >download, here's the link: http://www.dev-labs.com/kr/index.html .  The
> >program is shareware, free for the first 30 days of personal use, $15
after
> >that.  Keyboard setup is not exactly intuitive, so if you decide to give
it
> >a try you can email me for some tips that will save you a lot of time.
> >
> >K8AC
> >
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> Dave
> NR1DX
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>
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