[WT-support] Setting up a FT-1000-MP in rtty mode

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

2014-09-16 11:48 GMT-07:00 Ricardo Navarrete <ricardoea4zk at gmail.com>:

> I made the setting up of my ft-100-mp to work on AFSK with my digikeyer,
> but I must to work on PKT mode. This mode is shown on WT , how can I remap
> the mode on win test to change PKT as RTTY????
>
> Is it possible??
>

Yes if you disconnect the RS-232 line between Win-Test and the radio, so it
cannot read the mode, and then change band and mode in Win-Test manually to
match the band and mode of the radio, by pressing Alt-F1 and Ctrl-F1, but I
don't think that is what you want.

I think most people use FSK for RTTY with the FT-1000MP and DigiKeyer,
instead of AFSK, so they don't have this issue.  Step by step instructions
to configure Win-Test, MMTTY, and the DigiKeyer to use FSK instead of AFSK
are documented here:

http://www.microham.com/Downloads/DK2_Win-Test_Setup.pdf


If you insist on using AFSK, one thing you could try is to edit the
Win-Test BandPlan to map RTTY frequencies to PKT mode rather than RTTY.
 But you may have to do more than that.

You could try to tell Win-Test to use OmniRig
<http://www.dxatlas.com/omnirig> to control the radio instead of the
built-in FT-1000MP support.  Install OmniRig and configure it for your
radio's CAT port and baud rate.  Start Win-Test and tell it to use Radio
type "OmniRig" instead of FT-1000MP.  Uncheck the COM port in Win-Test so
that only OmniRig talks to the radio directly.

Then you will have to edit the *FT-1000 MP.ini* file that ships with
OmniRig, to tell it to map PKT mode to "DIG" (default is to map RTTY mode
to DIG).  You would change these lines:

[pmDIG_U]
Command=00000009.0C
ReplyLength=0

[pmDIG_L]
Command=00000008.0C
ReplyLength=0


to:

[pmDIG_U]
Command=0000000B.0C
ReplyLength=0

[pmDIG_L]
Command=0000000A.0C
ReplyLength=0


and it should move the radio to PKT mode when you select mode RTTY in
Win-Test.  You may also need to change these lines:

Flag7
=00000000000000.07.8000000000000000|00000000000000.05.8000000000000000|pmDIG_U
Flag8
=00000000000000.07.8000000000000000|00000000000000.05.0000000000000000|pmDIG_L
Flag9
=00000000000000.07.0000000000000000|00000000000000.06.0000000000000000|pmDIG_L

to

Flag7
=00000000000000.07.8000000000000000|00000000000000.06.8000000000000000|pmDIG_U
Flag8
=00000000000000.07.8000000000000000|00000000000000.06.0000000000000000|pmDIG_L
Flag9
=00000000000000.07.0000000000000000|00000000000000.06.0000000000000000|pmDIG_L


Experimentation will be required.

73,
Bob, N6TV
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