[OKDXA] RTTY Elmer?

[Peter Laws]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 14:42, John Geiger <aa5jg at yahoo.com> wrote:

> for other contests, but use N1MM so I can get both its window and MMTTY on the screen at the same time.  I tried using the MMTTY plug in with N1MM and they function nicely together but I need to do a little work getting the messages set up so I quickly reverted back to having N1MM and MMTTY running separate.


Yeah, Macros are critical.  Shorter is better, minimum of fluff.  When
I get home later, I'll send you a file you can import into N1MM to get
you started (change the call!!! :-)

Running the two together probably would have increased your QSOs by
50%.  Rig control is also worth the effort since it will pull in the
band/mode info from the radio - still fewer keystrokes.


> I am using a FT857D which is probably set up fairly similar to the FT847.  The one thing you did not mention was whether you had a narrow filter installed in the rig or not.  I was using a 300hz CW filter during the contest and it makes all of the difference in the world.  I don't even mess with the DSP bandpass settings or the BPF in MMTTY as those are both at the AF level. Your ears might not here the adjacent frequency QRM but the rig's AGC will and will respond accordingly.


Not familiar with the Yaesus so don't know their filter capabilities.
MMTTY's filters are at the AF stage, but are said to be very good at
what they do.  Also a lot of tweaking is available for those that care
to do that.  I don't and let the IC746Pro do it all - the RTTY TPF set
to 350 Hz works for me if I need it, otherwise I usually run 500-Hz.

Also note that MMTTY is now being maintained by Dave, AA6YQ, who is
the author of the DX Lab Suite.  A v1.66H is forthcoming.


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