[WT-support] AFSK RTTY and Bandmap

[Dez Watson]

As always some excellent help to get me sorted.

Thank you.

73 Dez, G3WW

On 25 Sep 2017 16:06, "Bob Wilson, N6TV" <n6tv at arrl.net> wrote:

> See this post for a suggested work-around:
>
> http://lists.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2014-July/083771.html
>
> In sum, if you tell Win-Test you have an "All Mode" log, and you also tell
> it that Digital and LSB cover overlapping frequencies, it won't change
> modes when you click on a spot in that frequency range.
>
> As for frequency offset, try using *Options | Frequency Offsets*.  As
> explained here
> <http://docs.win-test.com/wiki/Menu:Options#Frequency_Offsets> in the
> Wiki, "It allows you to specify a frequency (in kHz) that will be added to
> any frequency read from the radio and subtracted from any frequency command
> that goes to the radio."
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
>
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Dez Watson <g3ww.dez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I had a play in the CQWW RTTY last weekend using a TS-480SAT with the PC
>> soundcard triggering the radios' VOX in SSB mode to keep things simple.
>> With limited preparation time before the contest it meant any issues would
>> be highlighted during the contest.
>>
>> The first problem I had was most RTTY spots from the RBN/cluster weren't
>> showing on the Win-Test bandmap. I quickly sorted this one out by altering
>> the bandplan to widen the RTTY segment, so for 40m I made the RTTY segment
>> 7030 - 7100 and deselected CW and SSB.
>>
>> With the bandplan information correctLy determining that all spots 7030 -
>> 7100 were now RTTY, I clicked on a spot and it would retune the radio but
>> send the radio from SSB (LSB) to FSK each time causing me to change the
>> mode on the radio back and then do a retune to find the signal. I could not
>> overcome this issue whereby the radio kept changing to FSK each time I
>> selected a spot from the bandmap.
>>
>> I am wondering whether there is a way to:
>>
>> 1. Not change the radio's mode when you select a RTTY spot if you're
>> using AFSK in order to keep the radio in SSB.
>>
>> And if so,
>>
>> 2. Add a frequency off-set to RTTY spots (which could be +/-) to account
>> for the Mark frequency which is off-set from the surpressed carrier
>> frequency or dial frequency of the radio.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Dez, G3WW
>>
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