Thanks. I got about half a dozen other responses that confirms the problem.
Overall, now having added a second sound card, I notice DX4Win makes a lot of noise. E.g. when hitting the F9 key to start adding QSO to the log. etc. etc. I really wish it was possible to switch this off. Björn SM7IUN 2016-07-02 3:36 GMT+02:00 Dan Violette <[email protected]>: > Bjorn, Tested mine. It does it too. Plays the "asterisk" sound from > Windows. Have not had 2 sound cards long so never really paid attention to > it. My theme plays a quiet "strum" that would hardly be heard over the RTTY > and monitor I usually listen to at the same time. Don't contest with DX4WIN > so never really noticed. > > Dan KI6X > > -----Original Message----- > From: DX4WIN [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Björn > Ekelund > Sent: Friday, July 1, 2016 12:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dx4win] MMTTY > > Hi List, > > Thank you for all the responses. > > I now know %X/%e are valid macro tokens used to switch on/off FSK > transmission in the DX4Win GUI for MMTTY. > > However the "ding mystery" remains unsolved. > > I have made the following observations: > > The loudspeaker ding is associated with using the %X token (start FSK > transmission) in a function key macro (e.g. F1). The %e (stop > transmission) creates no ding. > > The actual sound made is called "Windows Background" and is also used e.g. > when changing the Windows loudspeaker volume using the mouse in the system > tray. > > I have confirmed the issue on three different installations; A HP Pavilion > Desktop running Swedish Windows 10, an ASUS UL-30VT Laptop running Swedish > Windows 7 and an HP Folio Laptop running English Windows 7. > > The ding sound comes through Windows' general audio channel, not the > communications audio channel (which is used for e.g. the FSK audio from > MMTTY). If you use an extra sound card (like I ended up doing) the ding will > come through your loudspeakers and just annoy you. > However, more severely, if you use the PC's built-in sound card for the FSK > signal the ding will overlay with the FSK and distort the first few > characters of ALL your transmissions. > > I have tried different settings in "keying setup" Alt-S with no effect. > > I have tried placing the MMTTY executable in the default place (c:\program > files\mmtty instead of c:\ham\mmtty where it is installed by default) with no > effect > > I have tried changing the settings on most things I find in the Preferences > drop down with no effect. > > I have also played around with the standalone version of MMTTY and it shows > no such behavior (it uses backslash "\" as a token to turn on and off > transmission in function key macros.) > > Am I alone in seeing this? > > Björn SM7IUN > > > 2016-06-30 19:07 GMT+02:00 Björn Ekelund <[email protected]>: >> Hi all, >> >> I have two questions relating to the MMTTY Window: >> >> 1. Where is the complete list of %macros? I can't seem to find it >> anywhere in the help file or on the web. E.g. the %X macro that starts >> transmission or the %M macro that I don't know the meaning of. >> >> 2. Is there a way to avoid/disable the "ding" in the loudspeaker when >> executing the %X macro, e.g. in a CQ macro? >> >> thanks in advance, >> >> Björn >> SM7IUN > ______________________________________________________________ > DX4WIN mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
