[Elecraft] CQ WPX RTTY Contest

[Dave Cole]

Hi,
Did you have Data Submode "AFSK A" turned on?
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73's, and thanks,
Dave

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On Sun, 2016-02-14 at 16:51 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote:
> I just finished casual operation in the contest. I spent 
> considerable time trying to find the best way to do RTTY with
> RUMlogNG.
> 
> RUMlogNG can use the RTTY support built in to the K3 via the 
> RS-232 link. It works well for transmit, although given the 
> number of times I had to repeat my call, I wonder if there was a 
> slight frequency difference between the audio coming in to the 
> computer thru the sound card from the radio and the transmit 
> frequency. It seemed like there was enough of a difference that 
> the running OP had to fine tune my signal to decode it.
> 
> I did center the CWT tuning indicator on the K3, and when I 
> turned on Dual PB, the computer was getting the signal on the 
> right frequency.
> 
> My big problem was on receive. I never got the radio to cleanly 
> decode. It missed almost all the call signs, regardless of 
> strength of the signal. I tried using fldigi, which did work, 
> and cocoaModem which seemed to decode better than fldigi. I 
> ended up using cocoaModem and logging manually. (Next time I'll 
> probably steal the VGA screen from the P3 and use it as a second 
> screen on the computer so I can see all of both programs windows.)
> 
> The question is, what am I doing wrong with getting decoding to 
> work on the K3?
> 
> 73 Bill AE6JV
> 
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