[Elecraft] RTTY operation with Terminal in Utility

[jpk5lad at cox.net]

OK Dick --
Sounds great........ thanks.
I just thought I'd mention it now just in case someone wanted to 
dip their toe into the RTTY waters for this weekend's RTTY 
contest and planned to use the Terminal program in the Utility 
program.  It surprised me, at first, when I couldn't decode on the 
Terminal program now when I had done it in the past.

The P3 is new to me, however, and it took me a while to figure out 
what had changed.

Thanks again,
Jim - K5LAD

BTW - I was playing around with RTTY decoding with MMTTY 
software and the K3 was doing a noticeably better job than was 
the MMTTY program copying RTTY off the air.  It surprised me, 
but then, I guess it really shouldn't have.



> The K3 Utility currenly uses the text-to-terminal capability of the K3 for
> its terminal program.  Currently the P3 doesn't forward this information to
> the PC host. I've started an effort to exploit a new K3 MCU command, TB,
> designed for programs like this. It's going to be a few weeks more because
> of a vacation, but an update that provides terminal support concurrently
> with P3 operation is planned. 
> 
> It will be a K3 Utility update rather than a P3 update.
> 
> Dick, K6KR
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of jpk5lad at cox.net
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 11:11 PM
> To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Elecraft] RTTY operation with Terminal in Utility
> 
> I'd seen comments about the inability of uploading the K3 
> firmware through the P3's RS-232 connection and I knew that the 
> instructions, until the P3 firmware is updated, was to turn off the 
> P3 while loading the K3.
> 
> I had not seen any comments about a problem using the K3 Utility 
> program to run the Terminal program on RTTY but I discovered 
> that in order to use the RTTY terminal section, and probably the 
> CW and PSK31 decode feature too, was to turn off the P3.  Once 
> it's off, the Terminal program comes back to life.
> 
> I'm looking forward to a P3 firmware update when it becomes 
> more transparent to the information flowing to and from the K3 
> through the P3.
> 
> Also I'll put in another plug for updating the K3 Utility program so 
> it can share a virtual serial port through LP-Bridge (for the 
> Terminal) while the K3 can continue to talk to the computer for the 
> Logger32 logging program.
> 
> Thanks for everything and 73,
> Jim - K5LAD
> 
> 
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