[Ham-Mac] CQ MMTTY/Mac Users

Fri Sep 5 20:01:54 EDT 2008

Hi Dick,

Saw you on PSK on Aug 7th. Didn't have a chance to hook up with you as  
I had to run out for some reason, but you were having a nice QSO with  
AI4VR on 10.140 Mhz.  I recall as I tried to send a quick email to say  
hello and that your signals looked good here near Toronto, but must  
have had your email wrong as it bounced back. :-( Think it was an ARRL  
email?

Have not tried MMTTY but have tried similar with PropNET program also  
with mixed results.  I have the same setup as you just connected a  
TS-2000. I should say the PropNET on Windows warns that USB sound  
interfaces are not recommended. Here I was trying to do it virtualized  
using Parallels on a iMac so I had every expectation it would not work  
at all.  It did work but results were only OK or maybe just really  
didn't enjoy the experience the Windows XP or software was providing.

If no one speaks up with their experiences I am willing to try see if  
I have similar problems with MMTTY.  Certainly the Windows XP Sound  
and Devices Control Panel takes quite a bit of getting used to. Master  
Volume, Wave, SW Synth , Line in etc..
Add on the dials on the volumes SignaLink USB and finally sound level  
on the radio out 13 PIN port, and well I think there is a lot of  
potential to messing levels up.

Getting back to CocoaModem. I am not much of a contester myself so I  
use CocoaModem in normal Interactive mode when joining contest.  I  
make maybe 25 to 30 QSOs then bail usually because other household  
chores my wife reminds me of have not been done. :-)  When I am  
contesting I use "Log" button to link via AppleScript to MacLoggerDX  
to lookup (not log) the call and it's MLDX that warns me of dupes. If  
I make the QSO then I hit the log button in MLDX to record it.  Works  
fairly well, but I suspect it's not quite as quick or easy as  
CocoaModem in contest alone.  Would be nice to have log button and a  
lookup button in CocoaModem for this purpose but as you say Kok (W7AY)  
writes CocoaModem for his purposes and he is nice enough to share with  
others so fielding all the requests isn't an option.  I get this.  
However, Cocoamodem is so tantalizingly cool and easy to use it's hard  
to leave. Koks interest lies in the Mathematics of the encoding and  
decoding of which he is it on a level all his own. Interfaces are not  
really a keen interest, but if you ask me he's quite good at that as  
well. He is hoping someone will use his encode/decode libraries and  
build their own interface and share that with others. Alas I am not  
gifted with the programming skills or else this would be an  
interesting project.

Word is Macs are now 10% of Market share, up from 3 or 6% depending  
who you read. I have observed that in Universities around here about  
50% of students are carrying Macs. Not to mention iTouch and iPhone  
(also running a mini version Mac OS X) So it bodes well that new  
programming skills are blossoming.  Alas sad to say not many of the  
same age group are interested in HAM radio. :-(  Maybe we can scoop a  
few. ;-)

73
Steve

PS. I found this info on MMTTY so maybe you need to be using 1.66  
version of MMTTY for best results??

http://www.k2dsl.com/2008/08/23/mmtty-and-n1mm-working/
MMTTY and N1MM working
August 23rd, 2008 by K2DSL
When getting ready for my first RTTY contest I couldn’t seem to get  
MMTTY and N1MM working with my SignaLink so I just used HRD and DM780  
which was fine. But I wanted to get N1MM working with MMTTY before the  
next contest. I downloaded the latest version of MMTTY which was just  
updated to 1.66 and isn’t on the official site. Saw a reference to it  
in the MMTTY Yahoo Group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MMTTY/message/10529 
). I then followed the steps at AA5AU’s RTTY site (http://www.aa5au.com/rtty 
) and it worked. Not sure if it is the updated MMTTY, a step I missed  
that AA5AU’s site noted or I was just rushing to get it done. Anyway,  
MMTTY is working fine.
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73
Steve-VA3SPH

On 5-Sep-08, at 12:00 PM, Dick Kriss wrote:

> I would like to get in touch with a Mac user that
> has successfully managed to run the Windows
> based MMTTY RTTY program on an Intel Mac
> using a SignaLink USB interface.
>
> I have managed to get MMTTY working on this
> 2.4 GHz iMac using OSX 10.5.4 under Parallels
> with XP Pro SP3 via the SignaLink USB sound
> card interface; however, the received audio and
> decoding is poor when compared to using
> cocoaModem 2.0 operating native under Mac OSX.
>
> The signals to the MMTTY application seem down
> or attenuated and I am not sure if this is due to
> some Windows or MMTTY setting, the SignaLink
> USB Audio Codec sound card, the Parallels
> software, Windows XP Pro SP 3 or the Mac OSX.
>
> I feel sure MMTTY has a good decoder in its native
> Windows environment but it is pretty poor and not
> really contest usable when used under emulation
> software on this Intel iMac.
>
> My only reason for messing with MMTTY is I am
> concerned W7AY may disable the cocoaModem
> contest menu since it something he does not use
> and does not have time to maintain.  He has offered
> the code to others for experimentation but I do not
> recall anyone with the required skills expressing
> interest in maintaining the cocoaModem contest
> interface.
>
> Please contact me if you have suggestions for
> pumping up the received audio to MMTTY.  I may
> have some Windows setting wrong.
>
> 73 Dick AA5VU
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