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Ham Radio Solutions - EZmaster

EZ Master is an USB Device that interfaces your PC with several devices in your shack like radios, antennas, filters switching, microphone, headphones etc. Including PHONE, CW, RTTY, DIGITAL Mode interface and internal DVK, CW Keyer and SO2R switch all controlled with USB / COM / Parallel Ports.

More info can be found on the website which can be found in the links section.

microHAM - microKEYER

I thought it might be useful to share my settings for running N1MM with microKEYER and in my case a FT-1000MP.

CW keying

This got me up and running for rig control with the FT-1000MP and CW keying.

RTTY

N1MM logger - configurer MK Router MMTTY - set-up menu
Com6 FT1000MP rig control DTR + CTS always on PTT via rig control
Com7 digital  DTR + CTS always on
Com8 WinKey
Radio Com6
FSK Com7
WinKey Com8
Misc tab -  TX port  COM-TxD(FSK)
TX tab   -  PTT port 7 
         ****This is the setting that caught me out!!!

The actual Com port numbers are not important as long as you use the same number for all the different parts of the set-up. The above works perfectly for me.  Please feel free to correct any errors or omissions.

73 Jim  MM0BQI

Installing new router software

K1EL - Winkey

Winkey is an external keyer designed by K1EL and G3WGV. The goal for the keyer is to interface with various Windows programs and to avoid CW timing problems caused by multitasking. Winkey is fed ASCII characters from N1MM Logger (via COM port only), and converts the ASCII to timed CW. More info can be found on the website which can be found in the links section.

This keyer eliminates any hesitation that occurs from scheduling multiple tasks under Windows. It is also a really sweet standalone keyer. To enable the key, choose a com port for it from the Hardware tab. Check the Winkey option after pressing Set for that com port. Winkey options can be set on the Winkey tab of the Configurer.

The left pane of the Entry window gives information about the Winkey keyer, some examples:

When you are serious about contesting always run the K1EL keyer from a battery and not (only from) the serial port. When you have to reboot your PC for any reason the keyer will still function with an external battery, it won't if powered from the serial port. This will be a frustrating reboot...
Winkey needs a dedicated COM port.

Why Winkey?

WinKey works totally different from conventional keyers, but on a user level, you don't notice that: it just keys your rig like other interfaces. The benefit is on slower PC's, where LPT or com port keying might be 'stuttering' because the PC has other tasks to do while processing the CW. Or on newer PC's or laptops, that might not have LPT's or (too few) com ports but plenty of USB. Doing CW with an ordinary COM-CW interface does not always work on a USB-to-serial converter, WinKey should work just fine through such a device, because rather than being triggered by voltage levels, it exchanges text strings.

Other than that, K1EL has made WinKey also a good stand-alone keyer for the price I've seen commercial 'dumb' LPT interfaces being sold. And it can be used to write your own software (should you want to) without going through the hassle of solving timing problems that come with sending CW with a PC. Ask Tom what a pain that is! That's because WinKey is intelligent and 'talks' with the PC by exchanging ASCII text strings, and then processes these strings with its own built in logic to CW, rather than CW being generated on the PC itself.

Top Ten Devices - Automatic band decoder & DX Doubler

To replicate the default Top Ten Devices behavior, you would need to set up the Antenna tab in Configurer as shown in the Interfacing section.

West Mountain Radio - RigBlaster

CW and Digital setup

Inside the RigBlaster Plus set the following jumpers on the P5 jumper block: D9 and D12, corresponding to RTS on PTT and DTR on KEY. Switch the port on which the RigBlaster is set from DIGITAL to OTHER. In N1MM's configuration use DTR (pin 4) set to CW and RTS (Pin 7) set to PTT. Using this configuration, everything works properly generating CW from N1MM and furthermore, this combination will allow the other soundcard related things to work (MMTTY, SSTV, PSK, Voice Key Express, etc). (by David, K1TTT)

SSB setup

With it set up this way, it correctly mutes the microphone while transmitting a wav file and the vox works when not transmitting a wav file.

Transverters

N1MM logger has transverter support in the form that per bandmap an offset frequency can be set. Right click menu bandmap and select Set transceiver offset frequency. Enter the transceiver offset frequency in kHz (minus is allowed). Example: 116000 when using a transverter from 28 MHz to 144 MHz (144000 - 28000 = 116000). The same for other bands (up or down). This can be set per bandmap so when using two transceivers with transverters they can each be on a different band. The offset is saved by the program so after a restart the offset is still there.

CW decoders

No CW decoder is built in nor any external CW decoder is supported.

Rotators

Rotator control is rather worthless in contests, the contacts are so short that by the time the rotor would get around it would be all over and the rotor would be fighting to get to the next heading.

Rotator control is not supported by the program.