WinWarbler RTTY Transmission Via External Modem

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Information to be transmitted is entered into the Transmit Pane by direct keystroke; to clear information entered into the transmit pane, click the X button on the transmit pane's right margin. To increase the number of text lines visible in the transmit pane, click the resize button on the transmit pane's right margin. Sixteen macro buttons provide an alternative means of supplying information to be transmitted; macros can automatically transmit your callsign, the callsign, name, and QTH of the station with whom you are in QSO, incoming and outgoing signal reports, the current UTC time or date, and the contents of files.

To initiate transmission, click the Start button in the transmit panel, or strike the F2 key, or strike the Insert key; the Start button is immediately disabled, and remains so until transmission terminates. Initiating transmission enables the transmit panel's CW ID , Stop, and Abort buttons. As information is transmitted, its displayed in the currently selected receive pane using a white font to differentiate it from received information.  If you are simultaneously receiving RTTY via both soundcard and external modem and wish to transmit via the external modem, you must select the external modem receive pane before initiating transmission; do so by clicking the mouse anywhere within the soundcard RTTY receive pane -- its channel label will turn red to indicate this selection.

To force CW identification to be sent when transmission is terminated, click the CW ID button in the transmit panel, or strike the F3 key; the CW ID button is immediately disabled, and remains so until transmission terminates. 

To terminate transmission when all information to be transmitted has been sent, click the Stop button in the transmit panel, or strike the F4 key, or strike the Enter key while depressing the Ctrl key.

To immediately terminate transmission, click the Abort button in the transmit panel, or strike the Esc key. Any un-transmitted information is discarded.

Clicking the right mouse button on the transmit display pane produces a pop-up menu with two commands:

Entering CTRL-V into the transmit display pane also initiates the Paste (transmit from clipboard) operation.

To transmit reversed tones, check the Transmit panel's reverse box; this automatically updates the transmit setting in the Reverse sub-panel on the Config window's RTTY tab.