Hello RTTY contesting friend,
If you are new one or well known RTTY contester I hope that you find this page helpful in some cautions. If you´ll find some info wrong please let me know. I´m only the human being.
Because
WF1B shout down his website and there was a lot of changes and problems
with WF1B software during this year
( 2001 ) I decided to prepare
this page in order to have it all in one place for you.
If you wish to try RTTY contesting ( I can suggest to try it ), please read the rules of contest first.
CONTEST RULES & RESULTS
RTTY Journal by W6/G0AZT | http://www.rttyjournal.com/contests/index.htm |
SM3CER contest service center | http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/ |
LA9HW pages | http://home.online.no/~janalme/RTTY.html |
WF1B software, manual, utilities etc...
It is still good for example for OK DX contest when select EA RTTY contest by old rules | WF1B version 5.00 |
The EA part of v 5.01
has bugs :-(
Check out the Rules at http://www.rttyjournal.com sent to me by EA1MV in September 2000. 1: No QSO points are given for working your own DXCC country, DL to DL, W to W, JA to JA, etc. Two of the Spanish province abbreviations are incorrect. PM should be IB and OR should be OU. Assuming that all EA stations will be sending the correct abbreviations as per U.R.E recommendations, after all they sponsor the contest, if you log IB and/or OU, no multiplier credit will be given. The saving grace is that Antonio, EA1MV will be using WT4I's contest tools to Cabrillorise all received logs. When the converted logs are run through Bruce's log checking software, the above errors will all be corrected and appropriate QSO points will be credited. So, the bottom line is, if Ray doesn't come out with a new version in time, enter the contest, have fun, submit your log and summary sheet WITHOUT making any amendments to either file.When the results are published, your scores should improve considerably compared to the WF1B's summary sheet's claims. I bet than doesn't happen very often :-) Eddie, W6/G0AZT. |
WF1B version 5.01 |
solved some bugs of
previous version
It has these 3 changes in it: - can click on serno - changed PM to IB - changed OR to OU |
WF1B version 5.02 |
You can use this cabrillo for your contest logs | converter |
Manual for V4.5 in PDF format | manual |
K7WM prepared new which is up-dated contest callsign database ( updated 09/2001) | master.cal |
SM6BSK prepared the
which converts ALL files to CABRILLO format for CQ WW/RJ contest
Hi all "DX", >IF YOU ARE DX DO NOT EVEN SEND IN LOGS USING THE SM6BSK CABRILLO CONVERTER >UNLESS AND ONLY UNLESS THE QTH FIELD IN YOUR WF1B .INI FILE SAYS QTH=DX. >THE SM6BSK CONVERTER NEEDS TO SEE "DX" IN THE QTH FIELD IN THE ASCII OUTPUT >FROM WF1B. SIMPLY PUTTING "DX" IN THE ARRL SECTION OF THE CONVERTER WILL >NOT WORK For your information, I have made a fix to this. Now it works if you put "DX" in the ARRL-SECTION. The file is available for downloading at SM3CER:s Contest Site http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/ 73 de Nils, SM6BSK email: [email protected] |
utility |
Runtime Error 200
DK> OK...so does someone
write some code to compensate for clocking
DK> or do I give up on the
idea of using WF1B?
DK>
When trying to run the demo of WF1B I experience the following error:
DK>
Runtime error 200 at 0027:10F0.
DK>
I am running 98SE, on an AMD Athlon 750.
DK>
Is this anything I can fix?
Try this little utility attached
to this mail.
The "Runtime Error 200"
appears on newer, too fast PCs, it is due to a a Borland Pascal internal
bug, actually the bad code is located inside the inizialization code of
the CRT unit and the programmer can do nothing to prevent it, of course
a solution could be avoiding the use of that unit but this would give the
programmer a head ache cause that unit has too many useful functions, hi.
This little utility will
try to locate the bad code inside the executable files and patch it, the
syntax is very easy:
RTTYFIX <filemask>
i.e. RTTYFIX *.EXE will search inside every executable file in the current directory and eventually apply the patch.
You better make a backup
copy of your directory before executing RTTYFIX, I had not much time to
write it so I didn't write the code to automatically backup the files before
applying the patch...you'll have to do the backup by yourself! hi I have
tried to run WF1B demo patched on a PIII 700 MHz and it runs ok, let me
know if it works on your machine too.
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I will not belch the National
Anthem.
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Ciao.
Steve, IK4WMH
mailto:[email protected]
Hope this helps.
73, Vince K6BIR
<CR>W1AW 599 001 001<CR>
time=4.4 seconds
and
<CR>W1AW 599-001-001<CR>
time=4.0 seconds
I measured the output of
a second receiver on a Tektronix 2225 scope using .5s/div sweep.The time
measurements were as close as I could tell by eye. More precise measurements
could of course be made with a storage scope.As expected, the second exchange
was shorter. The extra time in the first exchange is caused by the
figs shift character transmitted right after each
space when USOS is used
at the transmitter. Each character in the Baudot code takes about
163ms, or 326ms when two figs characters are used as in the first example.
My measurement confirms that only two, not four, figs characters are being
sent. Someone earlier on the reflector thought there were four. As
far as which one to use, that remains for the user to decide. Neither
one is perfectly right - the longer one is more likely to print correctly
when the original figs character is lost, and the shorter one prints more
quickly. Over the course of a 1000-QSO contest, the extra 326ms will
cost you 326 seconds, or five minutes and 26 seconds. Is this worth
saving some repeats? I honestly don't know. Some will say yes
and some will say that there is a lot of dead
time in a contest anyway,
so five minutes lost doesn't matter. I really don't know which is
right.Hope this helps dispel some confusion about the timing, anyway.
73, Bill W7TI
OTHER INTERESTING SITES
Very good site for RTTY users is " RTTY info" - http://www.RTTYINFO.net/
Waldemar DK3VN prepared also
very nice website concerning to RTTY contesting. You´ll find there
some useful tips
RTTY
World Ranking List created and managed by DK3VN
DJ3NG creates the following WEB World RTTY contests scene Database for international Rtty Results - http://www.qsl.net/dj3ng/
Some experiencies and tips are published on AA5AU website http://www.geocities.com/aa5au/rtty.html
RTTYcontestting reflector http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/rtty
KI6DY Home is here
W5BBR Home is here http://www.w5bbr.com/index.html
If you´d like to try
use WF1B with MMTTY you can find how to do it here on the website of Phil
GU0SUP
http://www.guernsey.net/~pcooper/emulate.html
If you do not wish to use WF1B for contesting, you can use several other programs as:
WRITELOG - http://www.writelog.com/
RCKRtty http://www.rckrtty.de/
OH2GI http://www.kolumbus.fi/jukka.kallio/
You can also use MMTTY
http://www.qsl.net/mmhamsoft/mmtty/index.html SW but this otherway
perfect piece of SW is not designed for contesting
GL & CUL on my screen - Olda