[Ham-Mac] Re: Comments on RUMped for the JARTS WW RTTY Contest

[Dick Kriss]

On Thursday10/23/08 10:14 AM, "Richard Kriss" <aa5vu at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> Tone Settings: My cocoaModem normal RTTY tone setting
> is 2000 Hz with the standard 170 shift and I use the RTTY
> Monitor as my primary tuning aid.  I observed each time I
> modified a macro key on-the-fly, the red Mark and Space
> lines displayed in the RTTY Monitor would shift to the left
> but the memory setting remained.  I think RUMped may be
> hard coded to run at a different tone setting. As a workaround
> for the contest I used the cocoaModem stored tone memory
> setting #4 that was 1414 Hz with 170 shift and this helped.
> I had to watch and reset the tone several times.  I need to
> get back with Tom on where the user Tone preferences are
> set in RUMped.   This may have been a cockpit error on my
> part but it was weird to see the red Mark and Space lines
> shift in the RTTY Monitor.  I have no idea how this affected
> the cocoaModem Wideband RTTY users.

Tom, DL2RUM, has responded to the above with RUMped 2.0
Beta 16 that now has a user option (under the RTTY Preferences)
to check a box to Use CM Tones.  Now cocoaModem users can
use any option they wish.

TNX to DL2RUM

73 Dick AA5VU