[GreenKeys] TU replacement

Duncan Brown duncanancy at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 21 15:20:41 EDT 2019


Yes, there is a way to output text from a computer running MMTTY (you 
need a serial port, though)

It is called "extFSK106"  go to https://hamsoft.ca/pages/mmtty.php and 
scroll down to the bottom of the page.

I have not used it recently, but it seemed to work OK.

Have fun,

Duncan
K2OEQ

On 8/21/2019 15:09, Jim Haynes wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, John, W9DDD wrote:
>> I've been reading docs about MMTTY, fldigi etc.  As near as I can 
>> tell they all are oriented towards squirting characters on the 
>> screen. I don't see an option to drive an external printer either by 
>> bit banging a digital I/O port or a USB device like the volpe board.
>>
>> Is there an existing solution and I missed it or?
>>
> I don't think so.  I've been begging writers of the software to produce
> a Baudot output on a wire when receiving, but so far have had no success.
>
> The now-ancient K6STI RITTY sofware did do that (at my request) but is no
> longer available, more or less driven out by all the free software and
> by the author's disgust at pirated copies.  And it was never updated to
> run on anything but DOS and anything but a Soundblaster card.  I have an
> old DOS machine that can still run it.
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