[Elecraft] OT? K3s - WSJTX - MMTTY conundrum

[Gary Smith]

Joe,

I bet that was it. Bob, W9BF emailed me 
earlier with the same info. I too was able 
to decode a W7, think it was W7DX, he was 
in there till the end. Maybe he was 
working a different contest, he was making 
Q's I could copy.

I'm getting to the age where Senior 
moments happen but I thought I did 
everything right and it wasn't working. 
Now I feel better. A celebratory beer is 
in order!

Thanks & 73,

Gary
KA1J


> I was doing the exact same thing.  I was done with my FT8 and wanted
> to check things out for this weekend´s contest.  I could see lots of
> RTTY on the P3.  So I tuned some of the stations with MTTY and no
> decode.  I did eventually find one station that was decoding.  It was
> a W7 station.
> 
> That meant something was working. Then, I changed baud rate - set it
> to 75 and now I could decode most of the RTTY traffic I was seeing
> (some of the weak ones or the 45 stations - not so much).  The source
> of most of the RTTY I was seeing at the time was the BARTG Sprint 75
> contest.
> 
> Maybe you ran into the same issue.
> 
> 73.
> Joe, KO8V
> 
> > On Sep 17, 2017, at 2:37 PM, Gary Smith <Gary at ka1j.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hard to enter a short subject that is 
> > complete...
> > 
> > Have a K3s using USB to the computer & the 
> > internal card for digital modes.
> > 
> > I wanted to work a few Q's in the RTTY 
> > contest and have been using WSJT-X for FT8 
> > contacts. 
> > 
> > In the K3s WSJTX requires Data A for FT8 
> > and in MMTTY it requires AFSK A (45BPS is 
> > normal).
> > 
> > I went to use MMTTY after using WSJTX and 
> > with an excellent scope copy of the RTTY 
> > signals, gibberish is on the screen. I 
> > tried Reverse; REV in MMTTY and tried ALT 
> > in the K3 and no benefit. I tried so many 
> > things to decode in MMTTY but nothing 
> > worked until some random change in a K3s 
> > setting worked and then perfect copy as 
> > usual.
> > 
> > I later clicked on WSJT to make a Q, the 
> > radio complied and switched to the 
> > settings for WSJT and when I went back to 
> > MMTTY, the copy was again gibberish. I 
> > don't recall what it was I did to set the 
> > K3s back so MMTTY can decode RTTY I did 
> > return it to AFSK A 45 but nothing 
> > decodes. 
> > 
> > It was a K3 setting that made the 
> > difference but I have no idea what it was 
> > I chanced on. anyone work out this issue 
> > yet when switching from WSJTX to MMTTY & 
> > the change in settings then required in 
> > the K3s?
> > 
> > Thanks & 73,
> > 
> > Gary
> > KA1J
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