#Ic 7800 setup with microham mkii software#

microphone configuration in keyer must be set to EL (MK, MKII) or preamplifier bypassed (MK2R, MK2R+) for stock microphoneДЇor simultaneous USB and CI-V (REMOTE jack) CAT control keeping both band data for microHAM products, and spectrum screen replication in logger use these settings:Д¬I-V Address = default CI-V address of the radio whenever possible, use USB D/LSB D instead USB/LSB for AFSK set CI-V baud rate to some particular baud rate, not Auto Due to its construction it is possible to plug it in upside-down. make sure DIN13 ACC plug is correctly inserted to the radio. if you have P3, CAT connection flow is microHAM interface - P3 (PC jack) - K3.Д«aud rate set to 38400 in all Router, P3 and K3

Use E980297 adapter supplied by Elecraft for K3S use DATA A mode for all audio keying based (AFSK) digital modes if constant level audio output is low, add amplifier between interface and radio. use separate 12V power supply if radio does not provides auxiliary 12V output.Дo not use same 12V power supply for interface as for transceiver. turn OFF internal CW keyer in the radio We still have a lot to do to improve our digital contesting skills but we are making progress.Most important transceiver settings and notes related to proper operation with our products. SO2V operation allows us to use the second receiver in our Icom IC-7800 to tune a second QSO while we are completing another QSO in Search and Pounce mode. The 2Tone Decoder can do a better job decoding weak or noisy signals. We plan to add the 2Tone Decoder to our setup and enable SO2V operation for our next contest attempt. In many cases either MMTTY or the hardware decoder in our radio would decode key contest exchange information correctly when the other decoder did not. We also used the combination of MMTTY and the hardware decoder in our Icom IC-7800 as a means to have two chances to decode received information during weak or noisy QSOs. The following shows a segment of an example QSO using Call Sign StackingВ to respond to both KB1OIQ and NE1RD after they both respond to our CQ: Call Sign Stacking allows the operator to grab 2-3 responding call signs after calling CQ and then respond to each of them without calling CQ again. Enter Send Message allows the operator to just hit the key to progress to the next stage of a QSO and automatically send the correct string. We made heavy use of N1MMвЂ™s Enter Send Message (ESM) and Call Sign Stacking capabilities during the contest and both of these features greatly improved our QSO rates. The N1MM logger and associated setup made a major positive difference in our score! We would recommend the N1MM/MMTTY combination to others who are interested in RTTY contesting. If our placing associated with our claimed scores holds, we should finish in the top 10 entries in our category for North America making this by far our best contest effort to date.

We made a total of 1,562 QSOs, worked 609 prefixes, and worked 68 DXCC entities for a final claimed score of 2,981,664. The N1MM logger enabled our QSO rates to run as high as 130+ QSOs per hour at times.

We operated in Running Mode for most of the contest. We operated mostly on 40m and 20m with some operation on 80m and 15m. Our experiences with N1MM/MMTTY and the new radio setup were very good. We operated for about 30 of the allowed 48 hours in the contest due to a major snow event and the associated cleanup at our QTH. MMTTY supports hardware FSK with this radio and this was also our first use of these capabilities in a contest. We used our Icom IC-7800 for this contest which has hardware FSK capability, Twin Peak Filtering and a built-in RTTY decoder.

#Ic 7800 setup with microham mkii software#

This was our first use of this software and we did some pre-contest setup and testing work using this combination to learn the new software and get it working with our radio. We decided to move to the N1MM Logger and the MMTTYВ RTTY Decoder for this contest. Anita (AB1QB) and Fred (AB1OC) decided to enter the recent 2013 CQ WPX RTTY Contest in the Multi-op Single Transmitter, High Power category.

Ic-7800 setup with microham mkii