N4PY Pegasus Control Program Version 3.00 Personal Computer This program is now a 32 bit program. Your personal computer is an integral part of the your transceiver. The minimum system requirements for your PC to operate your radio are a 486 processor running Windows 95. Connect one end of the serial cable to the serial port connection of the radio and connect the other end of the serial cable to the 9 pin serial port connector on your PC. The Pegasus performs best when running on Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP or Vista. It will work fine on a minimum system with a 486 processor running Windows 95. Screen resolution of at least 800 X 600 is recommended. It is very important that you read the interface section of this file for the radio type you are using. The Omni VII is fully described in that section and must be read and understood to use that radio properly. PC to Pegasus Serial Connection Connect a 9 pin serial port cable between the Pegasus and an available COM port on your PC. If your PC has only a 25 pin COM port available you will need to acquire a 25 to 9 serial port adapter. When you start the Pegasus control program for the first time you may need to tell the program which COM port the radio will be using. The Pegasus control program looks for the radio on COM 1 by default. The RX L.E.D. on the front of the radio will flash slowly until a PC to RADIO connection is established. At which point the L.E.D. will remain on. If the L.E.D. did not enter the ON state upon starting the control program it indicates that the wrong COM port is selected or that the radio is unable to communicate with the PC. If needed, choose the appropriate COM port under the INTERFACE section of the SETTINGS panel. It is also possible to use a USB to SERIAL PORT adapter to operate the radio over a USB port. Please refer to the adapter documentation for information on using a USB port as a Serial Port. Some USB adapters do not work very well and others work great. The one most people are using is from www.keyspan.com. The single port model is USA-19HS at $39.95 and the 4 port model is USA-49WLC at $140.00. Basic Operation Turn on the Pegasus using the front panel switch. Note the four LED indicators. The ON light will be lit and the RX light will be flashing. Start the N4PY Pegasus control program. When the control program successfully connects with the Pegasus the RX light on the front panel will go from flashing to solid on. If needed you may change the selected serial port in the INTERFACE section of the SETTINGS screen. Mouse Wheel Frequency tuning can be done using the mouse wheel as a tuning knob. The "FAST TUNING MULT" defined in "preferences2" is used as a multiplier for mouse wheel tuning. The tuning step size for the mouse wheel is the selected tuning step size multiplied by the FAST TUNING MULT. Remote Operation Some people enjoy running their equipment remotely. This can easily be done with this program, an audio program such as skype, and a remote access program such as VNC. See www.skype.com for obtaining skype. See www.vnc.com for obtaining VNC. Of course, the Tentec Omni VII does not require Skype and VNC for remote internet operation. Control Panel Buttons Mode Buttons Left clicking the mode buttons will set a new mode for VFO A. If DUAL receive is on, right clicking the mode buttons will set a new mode for VFO B. For the RX-340 and RX-331, if DUAL is off, right clicking the FM button will setup everything to receive DRM. This DRM setup will set the mode to USB, the filter to 16 kHz, the AGC to slow, PBT to +2000 and set the radio frequency down 12 khz from the GUI. DUAL This buttons controls the dual receive function. If this button is off the VFO B receiver will always be muted. With this button on, both the VFO A and VFO B receivers will be heard. Also, if this button is off, no data will be sent to the VFO B receiver until DUAL is turned on. Right clicking the "DUAL" button will turn on "A=B Frequency Tracking". This mode is indicated by a "DIV" showing up just above the DUAL button. With this mode on, VFO B will automatically follow VFO A in frequency. To turn off this mode, left click on the "DUAL" button. The purpose of this mode is for diversity reception from two receivers at the same time. For true diversity reception, the two receivers must have separate antennas. Please note that if "DUAL" is off, all updates to the VFO B receiver will be saved and not actually sent until "DUAL" is switched on. This button is not available if there is no second receiver. ManMD This button controls whether or not filter and step information automatically change when a new mode is selected. With this button off, when a new mode is selected, a new filter and step will automatically change according to the mode. With this button on, only the mode will change when a new mode is selected. SAM The mode "SAM" is for synchronous AM. It is not really sync AM, but the next best thing. This mode simply turns on the BFO and sets the step size to 1 Hz. You must carefully zero beat the AM carrier by slowly tuning for this mode to be effective. This mode is much more tolerant to AM signal fade. For the RX-340 and the "RX-350 only" setups, if you click the SAM button while in another mode, you will first get SAMB which is SAM with both sidebands. If you left click again on the SAM button, you will get SAML which is SAM in lower sideband. If you then left click the SAM button again, you will get SAMU, which is SAM in upper sideband. If DUAL is on, right clicking this button will send the mode to the VFO B receiver. CWR This stands for CW reverse. Normal CW mode uses LSB which causes tones to increase as the frequency is increased. CWR mode uses USB, which causes tones to decrease when the frequency is increased. You select CWR by right clicking on the "CW" button. An interesting side effect of this mode is you can tell when you are tuned directly onto a CW signal by swapping back and forth between CW and CWR mode. If the pitch of the signal does not change, you are perfectly tuned to the signal. This mode is not available on the RX350, Argonaut V, and Jupiter while in logging mode only. RTTY This mode is used for any digital mode you may want to run. Its default setup is for RTTY. It sets a frequency offset of 2100 hertz and turns on the accessory input for transmit audio, and uses LSB mode. You can change the button name, frequency offset, and transmit mode through the "RTTY Settings" window of the "settings" menu. You can also reverse the selected sideband. If you click on the RTTY mode button while RTTY mode is already selected, the selection for the RTTY sideband will be reversed. This is indicated by the color of the RTTY key changing from blue to red. The same also holds true for the second RTTY mode, which is selected by right clicking the RTTY button. If you store a RTTY mode station in a memory, there are actually 4 RTTY modes. They are named in the memories as follows: "RTTY" = RTTY mode 1 "RTTY2" = RTTY mode 2 "RTTYR" = RTTY mode 1 with reversed sideband "RTTY2R" = RTTY mode 2 with reversed sideband There is a way for logging programs to select RTTY mode 1 or RTTY mode 2 automatically. If a logging program set an SSB mode that is in the CW portion of a band, if RTTY 1 real mode matches matches the SSB mode, then RTTY mode 1 is selected. If RTTY mode 1 does not match, then RTTY real mode 2 is checked for a match. If it matches, then RTTY mode 2 is selected. In this way, logging programs can now select RTTY mode 1 or RTTY mode 2. If DUAL is on, right clicking this button will send the mode to the VFO B receiver. Store SP This button stores the frequency, mode, and filter in a temporary memory for later retrieval. Recall SP This button retrieves the values of frequency, mode, and filter, last saved with the "Store SP" button. STORE STORE opens the Store Memory window and prompts you for station data. You can also add a PBT value to the saved memory. If you edit the memory window, you can add "PBT=" text to specify a PBT value to be set when the memory is recalled. For example, if you want a PBT value of 1000 hertz, anywhere in the "Notes" box add the following text: PBT=1000 For a minus 1000 hertz PBT add the following: PBT=-1000 Make sure not to have any spaces on either side of the "=". RECALL RECALL brings up the Recall Memory window and allows you to select stations. Scan Clicking the "Scan" key will cause the stored memory file to be scanned one frequency at a time, beginning at the current entry. The time spent on each memory is called the dwell time. The dwell time is specified in the preferences window. It must be between 0.1 and 9.9 seconds. The default dwell time is 2 seconds. The dwell time is specified in tenths of a second so a value of 20 corrsponds to 2 seconds. All the memories in the loaded memory file will be scanned. When it gets to the last entry, it will start over at the first memory of the file. You will most likely make special memory files to use this scan feature. You can stop the memory scan by clicking again on the "Scan" button. If you add the word "skip" in lower case anywhere in the "notes" section of a memory, the memory will be skipped during the scan function. The memory scan will be stopped if you transmit while the scan is in progress. You can configure an automatic resume time. See the "Preferences4" section. FAST, MED, SLOW These buttons set the AGC speed. Step Buttons These buttons set the frequency step size according to their value. They are user definable in the "Steps" window of the "settings" menu. Left clicking these buttons changes the VFO A step size. Right clicking these buttons changes the VFO B step size. Band Buttons These buttons are band register buttons. They return you to the last frequency and mode you were using on the appropriate band section. The column labelled "CW" is for the normal "CW" section of that band. Clicking these buttons will return you to the last frequency and mode you were using when in this section of the band. The column labelled "SSB" will return you to the last frequency and mode you were using when in this section of the band. The "SWL" column will return you to the last frequency and mode you were using when in this band. The "GEN" band button is a general band register that gets used if the frequency is not in any other band. Also, you can access the ham band buttons with the function keys. Shift F1 to Shift F9 corresponds to the 160 to 10 meter SSB band buttons and Ctrl F1 to Ctrl F9 corresponds to the 160 to 10 meter CW band buttons. The "60" button under SSB, is a special button. In order to handle the unique requirements of this band, this button has a special click feature. Once you are on the band, you can toggle through the 5 band channels by left clicking to go down one channel or right clicking to go up one channel. Note that when going to the 60 meter band, your transmit bandwidth will be automatically lowered to 2400 hertz if it more than this value. Also, your low frequency SSB cutoff will be set to 300 hertz. Your power output will be lowered to 50 watts if it was more than this. When you leave this band, your previous settings will be restored. ACC Inp This button when clicked on, will change the transmit audio source to the accessory input. When clicked off, the transmit audio source will be the mike input. Note that the separate audio gain values are remembered for mike input and accessory input. Additionally, the power output setting for each input source is also remembered. AMTN The AMTN (AMP TUNE) button is to make tuning an amplifier easier. When you click the "AMTN" button, several steps happen automatically. They are 1) The current mode and frequency is save in the scratch pad memory. 2) The frequency is moved up 5 kHz. 3) CW mode is set. 4) A wide filter is selected. 5) The Step rate is set to 1 kHz. 6) The remote tuning knob is set to ALC to control power. 7) The Pegasus ALC (power) level is set to the previous saved value for this band and mode. While the "AMP TN" button is "RED", you should first make sure the frequency is clear. If it is not, tune to a clear frequency with the mouse by clicking the radio panel knob. Once a clear frequency is found, key your rig with your PTT or CW key and tune your amplifier. Use the remote tuning knob to set the pegasus output power to correct drive level. When the AMP is tuned, click the "AMP TN" to exit this mode. The frequency, mode, and step will be restored to original values. The Pegasus power output value will be saved and used anytime "AMP TN" is again clicked. This value is kept separate by band and mode. Try this function out. It is a real time saver. The more you use it, the more you will like it. There is also an option to use amptune to just tune your tuner and not key the amplifier. See "AMPTUNE DISABLE KEYING LOOP" below. There is also a "pulse tune" method when using Amp Tune. This feature is enabled by setting "PTT Amp Tune Pulse" check box in the "preferences3" window of the "settings" menu. When "AmTn" is on, clicking the "PTT" button will cause a pulsing action to help tune an amplifier in a 50 percent duty cycle instead of 100 percent. TUNE The power when the "TUNE" button is clicked is remembered. When you click "TUNE", set the power to what you want the tune power to be with the Alc slider. When you click "TUNE" off, the power will be restored to the previous value. The next time you click "TUNE", it will remember the tune power value and set it to this value. Try it, it may save your finals! This option may be overridden with the "No Tune Save" option described in the "Preferences3" section. BOT This button only appears on the "RX331 Only", "RX340 Only", "RX350 Only", "RX320 Only", and "Jupiter Logging Mode Only" configurations. It's function is to simply move the frequency to the bottom of the current band. It performs the same job as the "Band Bottom" value that can be defined for the remote tuning pod. Poll This button is only for the Argonaut V, the Jupiter when used in "Jupiter Logging Mode Only", and the Omni VII in front panel mode. When highlited in blue, polling is running so that the frequency, mode, and filter are being polled from the radio so the program can follow actions done directly at the radio. With this button turned off, no polling action is performed. The advantage of turning polling off is button actions done from the program will run faster and never be missed. ID The ID button is to activate a 10 minute ID timer to assist in meeting the 10 minute FCC ID requirement. Clicking this button causes it to turn blue and start a 9 minute timer (The FCC requirement is 10 minutes, this gives you 1 minute to ID). When this timer expires, a sound is emitted and the button flashes between red and blue. The next time you transmit, the button goes back to blue. To turn the timer off, click the button again and it will go black, indicating the timer is now off. There is an option in "Preferences3" called "Auto Cw ID". Setting this check box on, will cause the ID timer to send your callsign in CW each time the timer expires if you have transmitted during the 10 minute interval. The call will be sent at a fixed speed of 20 words per minute. You must be in either LSB or USB mode, split must be off, and the CW keyboard keyer must be off for this to work. If you are transmitting at the time the ID timer expires, it will wait until you are finished transmitting before sending out the call sign. The 10 minute ID and auto CW ID are not available on the Argonaut V. If you right click the "ID" button and you are in SSB mode, it will send a CW ID immediately. Transmit Disable This key is used to enable and disable the transmitter. If the button red, the transmitter is disabled. This is useful for CW code practice or when leaving the station to prevent the transmitter from being accidentally keyed. Call This button brings up the call sign window. In order to use this feature, you must have the BuckMaster CDROM installed. Once you have installed the BuckMaster database on your hard drive, you can set the "HamCall Drive Letter or Path" in the "Preferences" window to "c:\ham0\" without the quotes. This will allow calls to be looked up without the BuckMaster CDROM in its drive. Calibrate This button is at the very top of the main radio window. This button allows automatic computation of the Pegasus's frequency correction factor. It must be used in the following way: 1) Tune in WWV at 10 MHz. 2) Using USB, LSB, or SAM mode, and a tune step of 1 hertz, tune in WWV as precisely as possible. 3) Once it is properly tuned, click the "Calibrate" button. This will cause the display to change to 10.000.000 MHz and a new frequency correction factor will be saved. Please note that this function is not available for the Jupiter when in "Jupiter Logging Mode Only". Also, when this is used for the RX350, the frequency correction will cause a small difference in frequency to be displayed between the program displayed frequency and the RX350 displayed frequency. For the RX340/RX331 operating in full transceive with a Pegasus or Jupiter, the calibrate button can also be used to perfectly match the Pegasus frequency displayed value to the RX340/RX331 value. This is a critical function to guarantee that the transmit frequency is exactly the same as the receive frequency when using the RX340/RX331 together with a Pegasus in full transceive operation. To match the two receivers: 1) Tune VFO A to a signal and then click A=B. 2) Now click "DUAL" receive on. 3) Now tune VFO A until the received signal sounds exactly the same pitch in both receivers. Use a 1 hertz tuning step. 4) Click "Calibrate" and answer the message box question with a "Yes". Now the two receivers are exactly matched for that band segment. Note that this procedure must be repeated for each band segment you want perfect transceive transmit and receive frequency matching. By band segment, this means you have to do this procedure once for the SSB band segment for each band, and again for the CW band segment for each band. In order for this procedure to operate, the two vfo's must be within one kHz of each other and you must be on a CW, SSB, or SWL band. If you are on a user transverter and have defined a "Marker" frequency, this button can be used to have the program automatically compute a new crystal correction. See the "User transverters" section. Speech This button turns the speech processor and off and on. When the speech processor is turned on, you will see the word "Sp xxx", where xxx is the level of speech processing, near the main frequency. The level of speech processing is set with a slider in the SSB settings menu. It has a range of 0 to 100 with 0 being no processing and 100 being maximum processing. TxLoop This button allows the Tx Loop enable line for your amplifier to be controlled from the front panel. A "TXL" indicator comes on to tell you when TxLoop is enabled. This is to allow easy access to the TxLoop control for amplifiers that do not have a standby mode. Main Display Panel The main display area contains information about A and B VFO's, tuning steps, AGC selection and Local/UTC time. The Larger of the frequency displays is VFO-A; VFO-B the smaller. During key-down the Transmit VFO will change color. Mode Selection Select the mode for the current VFO using the mode buttons. To set the transmit mode in split mode select A/B, set the mode and press A/B again. In Simplex the current VFO's mode will be both the receive and transmit mode. Transmit Meter Selection This controls allows you to select the type of information displayed by the meter display during transmit mode. The display can be set to show Forward Power, Reflected Power, or SWR. PTT The PTT button provides manual PTT control. With Manual PTT control you can place the Pegasus into transmit mode from the radio panel. This is equivalent to pushing the PTT control on a microphone connected to the front panel. This control is useful for operating digital modes, such as PSK-31. Vox Toggle VOX operation ON and OFF. The button text will change color whenever VOX is turned ON. Mon The Mon button allows you to hear your transmit audio. Use it when adjusting microphone or audio input levels. The Level control for the monitor is provided in the SETTINGS panel. Mute Used to temporarily silence the received audio. Noise Blanker The noise blanker slider is shared with the squelch slider. Clicking the small label button on top of the slider toggles the slider function with squelch. The noise blanker has values of 0 to 7. Value 0 turns off the noise blanker. Value 7 is for long pulse noises, value 1 for short pulse type noise. You should use the lowest value that gives you good results. Attn The Attn button activates the RF attenuator inside the Pegasus. The RF attenuator provides approximately 20 dB of attenuation. Filter Buttons The radio panel provides 12 buttons for quick access to the most often used filters. Each of these 12 buttons can be programmed with your choice of filters. To see the filter options right-click on any filter. Any of the 34 filter choices may be assigned to any filter button. Spot Left clicking this key, if your radio has the feature, allows the CW spotting tone to be heard. This allows you to tune in a CW station by matching the CW spotting tone to the received station's tone. Also, for the Pegasus and Jupiter in pegasus emulation mode, right clicking this button puts the receiver in a special CW/CWR flip flop mode. The receiver will swap between CW and CWR at half second intervals. During this time, if you tune the CW station until the tone does not change during the mode swaps, you will be tuned exactly to the station. The flip flop mode is indicated by the Spot button being highlited. To stop the flip flop mode, either left or right click the spot button again. Notch (Not Omni VII) The automatic notch is implemented with a special digital algorithm in the DSP system. Left clicking the NOTCH button enables this function. There is no frequency adjustment for the automatic notch. It will seek out and null all constant carriers in the receiver passband. This notch works well for SSB mode but is not useful in CW as it tends to notch out the desired signal. Notch (Omni VII remote mode only) This button for the Omni VII is on the manual notch. For manual notch operation, the PBT drag window is used to change the manual notch center frequency and the "NW" slider is used to change the manual notch width. The PBT drag window is shared between PBT and manual notch. There is a little "P" or "N" that appears just to the right of the PBT window. If "P" is there, then the drag winodw controls PBT. If "N" is there, then the PBT drag window is controlling the manual notch center frequency. NW Slider (Omni VII remote mode only) This slider is used to set the width of the manual notch. See "Notch (Omni VII remote mode only)" above. NR Slider (Omni VII only) This slider controls how much DSP noise reduction you want. A value of zero turns off NR completely. AN Slider (Omni VII only) This slider controls the automatic notch. The higher settings make the automatic notch more aggressive. A value of zero turns off AN completely. PrAmp (Omni VII remote mode only) This button is used to turn the Omni VII preamp off and on. Noise The DSP noise reduction is activated by left clicking the noise button. This noise reduction system mathematically identifies desired signals and tracks them with a set of adaptive filters. Broadband noise is attenuated by as much as 15 dB depending upon conditions. Special right click on "Split" key Right clicking on the "split" key is used as an automatic FM repeater split function. A repeater offset is automatically set in VFO B and "split" is turned on when you right click on the "split" key and you are in an FM repeater band and in FM mode. The split offsets are calculated according to receive frequency as follows: 29.6 to 29.7 MHz - Down 100 kHz 53 to 54 MHz - Down 1 MHz 144.9 to 147 MHz - Down 600 kHz 147 to 148 MHz - Up 600 kHz 51.8 to 51.999 MHz - Down 600 kHz IARU Region 1 usage Tuning Selections When setting an "F" key on the remote pod to tuning selections, it will toggle between VFOA, VFOB, PBT, RIT, ALC, VOL, and RFG. VOL is for volume. Also, each key can be defined to expressly set one of the tuning knob functions. In addition to the functions that were already there you can directly define each function key to set the remote tuning knob to go to VFOA, VFOB, PBT, RIT, ALC, VOL, RFG, or MGN (Mic Gain). This is done on the remote tuning pod configuration box. You can also make one of the function keys be a "PTT" key by selecting the "PTT" entry. There also is a "SPOT" entry. When this is selected, that function key will turn on the CW spotting tone when pressed and turn it off when released. There is also a "RF Gain" entry. When this is selected, the remote tuning knob will control the RF gain setting. Also, see the "Remote Pod Keyboard Definition" section. There are sliders on the main control panel for Transmit Power (TX), and Keyer Speed (KS). The keyer speed slider on the CW settings panel is a coarse adjustment. It has a range of 40 wpm. The KS slider on the front panel is a fine adjustment. It has a range of 15 wpm. The intended use is for you to set the speed on the CW panel one time to set the general range you want. When you do this, you should first set the front panel in the middle and then use the CW panel setting to get the middle of the range you want. You then use the KS slider on the front panel as a fine adjustment of 15 wpm of the coarse range set from the CW panel. This allows the setting of keyer speed to not be touchy. In addition, if the keyer is enabled, the keyer speed is digitally displayed above the keyer slider on the front panel. You can also change the keyer speed one word per minute at a time. If you left click the "KS" above the "KS" slider you will go down one word per minute. If you right click the "KS", you will go up one word per minute in keyer speed. The upper of the two front panel offset drag control is for PBT. The tuning rate of both these drag control may be user configured. The lower of the two front panel offset drag controls is for RIT and XIT. This controls a single offset in hertz that may be applied to RIT or XIT depending on which is turned on. This is similar to the implementation of the offset function in the OMNI VI. This allows you while listening to a DX station, to tune in the station he is working with the RIT control, and then switch to XIT to actually work the DX station. Note that RIT and XIT only apply to VFO A. Transmit Bandpass Low Frequency Cutoff This parameter allows you to set the transmit low frequency cutoff for SSB operation. The parameter is on the SSB settings screen and is called "Low freq cutoff". It can be anywhere between 0 and 1000 hertz. The default for this value is 200. For example, if you are using a transmit filter of 2400 hertz and specify a low frequency cutoff of 200 hertz, your transmit passband will then be 200 hertz to 2600 hertz. Frequency Slider Bar The Frequency Slider displays a coarse view of the band. The displayed band width of the bar will depend on the selected tuning steps and the setting of "Variable Frequency Scale" in "Preferences3". The radio can be tuned using the Slider. Click and hold the left mouse button on the Slider Bar display and drag left or right. The frequency display will show the change and the radio will follow. Double click within the Slider Bar display to jump to a new frequency. S Meter There is an automatic S meter adjustment for when the attenuator is on. This adjustment attempts to restore the S meter reading to the value when the attenuator was off. There is also an S meter compensation value that you can define to calibrate your S meter. See "S METER COMP" in the pegasus.ini section below. Using the Spectrum Display The Spectrum Display or Sweep Window provides the operator with the ability to quickly scan the radio bands and produce a visual representation of station activity. Several user-selectable settings are available to control the width of the sweep, sweep center frequency and display features. Sweep Result Display While the radio is sweeping through the selected frequency range the display will change to show each new point as it is processed. When the sweep is complete the radio will return to normal operation and the result window will keep the last data displayed until a new sweep is performed or the program is restarted. The sweep result window provides several types of information. The left and right hand boundaries indicate the start and stop points for the sweep. The range is determined by the range setting. The vertical scale provides a relative comparison between different signals. The higher the point the bigger the signal. The display may be user selected as LOG or LINEAR. Display Format The sweep display format window control provides selections for displaying the sweep results in either LOG or LINEAR format. Display Style Sample points in the sweep display window can be displayed as solid lines or as dotted lines using this control. A change to this selection will be reflected immediately in the display if the sweep window currently contains a sweep result. Sweep Pulse Width This box is used to select how many pixels wide each plotted sweep pulse is. Wide pulses yield a fast sweep time but low resolution. Narrow pulses yield high resolution but slow sweep times. The first selection is called "Default Pulse Width" and lets the program decide the width. This box has no effect if "High Resolution" is checked since that size uses a fixed 1 pixel width size. Sweep Center Frequency The operator may choose to let the sweep center frequency be the same as the receiver tuned frequency with the TRACK_RECEIVER option or select MANUAL and enter the center frequency in the box provided. The MANUAL operation allows for the sweep of frequencies removed from where the radio is tuned. There is also an option called "Band Center". This option puts the center of the band you are currently tuned to in the center of the sweep window and automatically adjusts the width to match the band segment. Sweep Range The amount of spectrum covered in each sweep can be set using the Sweep Range control. The default range is 300 kHz. Starting and Stopping a Sweep Pressing the SWEEP button will begin the sweep acquisition of data for the sweep display. The process involves tuning the receiver to each frequency and getting a signal strength reading. The display is updated with each new point as it is gathered. To stop a sweep in progress press STOP at any time. There is a selection for spectrum sweep called "MaxHold". When this is selected, and only signals that are stronger that what is already displayed at that location will be changed. This allows the presence of string signals that come and go to remain on the sweep screen. There is a selection for spectrum sweep called "Integrate". When this is selected, the sweep display is integrated over several passes with the formula: Displayed Value = Previous Value - Previous Value/4 + New Value/4 Thanks to KH7T for this formula. There is also a "High Resolution" check box on the spectrum sweep. Selecting it causes the sweep display to show a large increase in resolution. However, the sweep speed is significantly slowed down when this is on. You can decide between speed and resolution with this setting. There is a "Wide Sweep" check box on the spectrum sweep. Selecting it causes the sweep display width to double. A program restart is required for the sweep panel to change size. Main Window Title The VFO A frequency is displayed on the main window title. This allows the frequency to be seen when the radio control panel window is minimized. This is very useful as it allows you to tune with the remote tuning knob and see the frequency while minimized. License Class You can define your license class and have your transmit privileges displayed on the frequency scale. You define your license class in the "preferences" section of the settings menu. You can also decide to have your transmitter follow your license class with a check box in this same area. When you define your license class, the background of the frequency scale will be blue for CW and digital mode only operation, green for phone operation, and burgundy for operation not allowed. If you select to have your transmitter follow your license class selection, transmit will be blocked when your transmit frequency is tuned to a non-authorized frequency for your class. When you select your license class, the last selection is called "foreign". This selection is for foreign countries that have different operating privileges than the U.S. It allows you to define your operating privileges via an ASCII file called "foreign.dat". Each line of this file defines a band segment you are authorized to operate in. There are 3 entries in each line. The first entry should be either "cw" or "phone". If "cw" is specified, it means the band is restricted to CW or digital modes. If "phone" is specified, it means the band has no bandwidth restrictions. The second entry defines the starting frequency for the band segment in MHz. The third entry defines the band segment end in MHz. There is a limit of 29 entries for the entire "foreign.dat" file. The supplied "foreign.dat" is an example of how one would define a file for a foreign country that had privileges identical to a U.S. general class license. There are also entries in the pegasus.ini file to control the point that the band button segments for the 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meter bands switch from CW to SSB. There is also one entry to control the switchover point between 40 SSB and the 41 meter SWL band. These entries are as follows with defaults as shown: 160 meter line=1.840 80 meter line=3.750 40 meter line=7.150 4041 meter line=7.300 20 meter line=14.150 15 meter line=21.200 10 meter line=28.300 You can change these values to the appropriate value for your countries usage in these bands. There is also a "SSBRTTY.DAT" file that can be used to define the frequencies you want RTTY or SSB mode selected automatically when doing direct frequency entry. This file can have up to 28 lines for RTTY and 28 lines for SSB. Each line for RTTY must start with "RTTY", and each line for SSB must start with "SSB". Follow the mode name with a comma, followed by the starting frequency in mhz, followed by the ending frequency for the mode in mhz. This file can be edited with notepad or any ASCII text editor. Examining the file will show the exact format. The USA SSB and CW band limits are built into the program. This file is used to override those values. CW Keyboard Keyer There is a CW keyboard keyer. It is turned on with the "Alt-K" key sequence. When the keyboard keyer is enabled, the letters "Cw Kb" will appear to the right of the frequency scale. Pressing "Alt-K" again will turn off the keyboard keyer. Some buttons may cause the keyboard focus to move from the main radio panel causing the keyboard keys to not send CW. When this happens, either click on the radio front panel with the mouse or do Alt-K twice to restore the keyboard focus. Using the CW Keyboard will force the Orion internal keyer to be enabled. If you accidently press the "enter" key while using the CW keyboard, it will put you into "direct frequency entry" mode. Press the "Esc" key to get back to CW keyboard mode or key in a frequency and press "enter" again. The keyed characters will not be sent until a full word is typed. The space bar is necessary to define the end of a word. This allows words to be transmitted smoothly and also gives you an opportunity to correct a keying error before the word is transmitted. This full word feature can be turned off by unchecking the check box labelled "Transmit full words only" located in the "CW Keyboard" window. The F12 key will toggle the CW Keyboard buffer between pause and transmitting. This key will allow you to type ahead while you are receiving. If the buffer is stopped, the "Cw Kb" will appear RED. If the buffer is transmitting, it will be black. The speed and weight of the keyboard keyer are controlled with CW keyer speed and weight controls. Typing at the keyboard will cause the appropriate character to be transmitted in CW. Special CW characters are as follows: BT is sent with the "-". SK is sent with the "$". AR is sent with the "+". KN is sent with the "^". di-dah-di-dah for traffic handling is sent with the "*". The "escape" key will immediately end sending and empty the CW internal keyboard buffer. There are two CW weight controls. They are a "Dah Wght" and a "Dit Wght" control. The value of each weight setting appears as a number from 0.8 to 1.70 at the bottom of each weight slider. The length of a dah is computed as the length of a space times 3 times the dah weight setting. The length of a dit is computed as the length of a space times the dit weight setting. The length of a space is fixed at the keyer speed setting. Theoretical perfect 3 to 1 spacing occurs at a dah weight setting of 1.00 and a dit weight setting of 1.00. These weight controls are used on both the CW keyboard keyer and the internal paddle keyer. Additionally, there is a slider marked "Btwn Char". This slider controls a weighting of the between character time. The normal between character time is multiplied by the value of this slider. The range is 0.5 to 4.0. This is used to either lengthen or shorten the time between sending characters. A value of 1.00 results is normal spacing for the selected speed. Obviously, this slider is only for the CW Keyboard Keyer and not for the paddle keyer. For the Jupiter with firmware version 1.28 or later, there are two "Enable Keyer" boxes. One is to enable the keyer in curtis mode A and the other is to enable the keyer in curtis mode B. I believe curtis mode B is much more common and that is how the Jupiter was previously setup. For Omni VII users in remote mode, the CW Rise/Fall setting is in the CW settings window. There is a CW Keyboard window for showing the contents of the CW keyboard buffer. This window is visible when the CW Keyboard is turned on. It may be hidden by clicking the "X" in the upper right hand corner of the window. You can make the window visible again by doing Alt-K twice. The keyboard buffer is 500 characters long. There are 5 memories that can be used with the keyboard keyer. The memories are loaded with the edit boxes in the "CW Keyboard" window. The memories are transmitted by pressing F1 for memory 1, F2 for memory 2, F3 for memory 3, F4 for memory 4, and F5 for memory 5. There are also 5 mouse buttons at the bottom of the radio panel labelled "M1" to "M5" to transmit the memories. There are also 5 CW Memory Tag edit boxes. These edit boxes, located in the "RTTY KB Settings" window, will change the labels on the M1 through M5 memory buttons. You can use these tags to help remember what is in each memory. They are limited to 3 characters. The special character "#" followed by a number from 1 to 5 can be placed in a memory to cause the contents of the memory number to be sent in place of the "#" character. This is useful to increase the size of a memory for a longer message. The special character " (double quote) can be placed at the beginning of a memory to send a file instead of the text in the memory. When you start a memory with a " (double quote), you directly follow the " with the name of the file you want to send text from. The internal CW keyboard buffer is limited to 511 characters so the file cannot be larger than 511 characters. You can never be more than 511 characters ahead of what is being transmitted. The file must be built with an ascii text editor such as notepad. If you build the file with notepad, the actual name of the file will have a ".txt" added to it. The basic name itself must be 8 characters or less and not have spaces or special characyers in it. The file must be located in the c:\n4py folder or wherever you have the program installed. The special character "%" followed by a number from 1 to 9 can be placed at the end of a memory to cause a delayed repeat of the memory. The number 1 to 9 is the delay in seconds before the memory is resent. When the repeat function is active, a capital "R" will show in the keyboard display buffer. The repeat function is cancelled when any new character is added to the keyboard buffer or a new memory is selected with the F keys. K1EL Keyer The program has full support for the K1EL Winkey keyer version 4 or later. Information on getting this keyer can be found at www.k1el.com. There is a check box in the CW settings window labelled "K1EL Keyer". Checking this box causes all the CW setting controls to change to the K1EL settings controls. Using this keyer allows the keying to be much smoother, especially for Windows XP, NT, and 2000. The controls are as follows: Additionally, if you are using the Winkey 2 keyer, the 4 buttons on top of the keyer will run the program memories 1 to 4. "Key Spd" - This slider sets the minimum range for the K1EL speed pot. The speed pot low end is set to this value and the high end is set to this value plus 15. Thus the range of the speed pot is always 15 wpm. Note that the actual keying speed of the K1EL is always set with the speed pot on the keyer itself. The "KS" slider on the program front panel will show the current speed but the "KS" slider cannot be used to change the K1EL keyer speed. If you do not have a speed pot on your keyer, check the "No Speed Pot" box and the KS slider will control the keyer speed. "Wgt" - This slider controls the keyer weighting. A value of 50 is no weighting. "Ptt Lead" - This slider controls the lead time the PTT line is energized before keying begins. The values are in 10 millisecond increments. This is useful to control an amplifier to ensure the amplifier relay comes up before RF is applied. "Ptt Tail" - This slider controls how long PTT stays energized after keying stops. The value is in 10 millisecond increments. "Key Comp" - This slider controls the amount of keying compensation applied to all keying elements. It is in milliseconds and adds a fixed amount of milliseconds to all character elements. "Dit Dah" - This slider controls the dit/dah ratio and allows you to change it from the standard 1:3 ratio. A value of 50 corresponds to the normal 1:3 ratio. The range of the control is 33 to 66, with 33 being a 1:2 ratio and 66 being a 1:4 ratio. "AutoSpace" - This check box enables or disables the keyer's autospace function. "CT Spacing" - This check box enables or disables the keyer's contest spacing option. "No Speed Pot" - Turn this check box on if you do not have or do not wish to use the speed pot on your WinKey keyer. "Reverse Paddle" - This check box allows you to use a paddle with the dit and dah connections reversed. "Iambic B" - This list box selects between Iambic B, Iambic A, Ultimatic, and Bug operation. "COM setting box" - This box allows you to define the correct comport the K1EL keyer is connected to. Consult the K1EL manual for more explanation of these controls. If you have the CW Keyboard turned on, you will get character echos from the paddle in the CW Keyboard window. This will show you what you the last 20 characters you have sent with the paddles. There is an interesting use for this keyer if you are running the Omni VII remotely via ethernet. You can use this keyer and turn on the program's CW keyboard window. When you send characters with the keyer, the program will capture these characters and send them to the Omni VII. You must have a sidetone installed directly on the K1EL winkey keyer to allow you to key with paddles for this to work. You may have to turn off the K1EL keyer setting and one time turn on the Omni VII keyer in Mode A or Mode B and then go back and turn on the K1EL keyer option before this will work. Using direct entry from the keyboard Keyboard frequency entry is always active while on the main radio panel unless the CW keyboard is active. If the CW keyboard is active, you should first press the "enter" key to get into direct frequency mode. Entry works by simply typing in the frequency. You may also click inside the frequency display to edit the frequency as in a normal text box. If you enter a frequency that is above 1000, the program assumes you have entered the frequency in kHz. If the value is below 1000, the program assumes you have entered the frequency in MHz. If you begin the entry with a ".", the program assumes you are only entering the kHz portion of the current MHz you are tuned to. To enter a frequency below 1 MHz, start the entry with a "0" followed by the "." and then the kHz value. To enter 680 kHz, key in "0.680". Remote Pod Keyboard Definition All the keys on the remote pod are programmable. There are four entries in the settings window to define the keys. The entry "Remote Pod Fkey" is used to define the three function keys. The entry "Remote Pod 789" is used to define the 7, 8, and 9 keys. The entry "Remote Pod 456" is used to define the 4, 5, and 6 keys. The entry "Remote Pod 123" is used to define the 1, 2, and 3 keys. The entry "Remote Pod P0" is used to define the period key and 0 key. Most of the values you can select are self-explanatory. An entry labelled "5" would be for the "5 key" to define it just for direct frequency entry. An entry labelled "up 5" would be for the "5 key" to define it to turn on split and make VFO B be up 5 from VFO A. The entry marked "Band Bottom" takes you to the bottom of the band. The entry labelled "AccInp Xmit" is a special one for slow-scan TV users. Clicking this button will cause the mike input to switch to accessory input, the Pegasus to go into transmit mode, and the monitor audio to come on. Clicking this again, will switch AccInp back to mike input, turn off transmit, and turn off monitor audio. This is extremely useful during slow scan TV sessions when you are changing from sending pictures to SSB to describe them. Also, when in this mode, the main program title adds additional text to note you are transmitting. If you have the pod in RIT tune mode and RIT is on, if you press the pod RIT button again, it will set the RIT value to zero. If you have the pod in PBT tune mode and PBT is on, if you press the pod PBT button again, it will set the PBT value to zero. The entry marked "Up Numeric" causes that key to set "up numeric mode". When you follow this key with a numeric key it sets VFO B equal to VFO A plus the numeric value of the key and then turns on "split". Note that the zero key causes you to go up 10. This allows you have have a "quick split" ability of 1 to 10 kHz without having to use all your numeric key definitions for this feature. The nice part of all this is you do NOT lose direct frequency entry from the remote pod when you define the numeric keys for other things. All you have to do is press the "E" key first, and the pod is then put into numeric mode for direct frequency entry. I leave it up to the creativity of the user to come up with a really nice remote pod key definition. Note that this ability now makes the "DX SPLIT" option obsolete as that function can now readily be defined this way. The "Remote Pod Fkey" window also has two entries to control the knob sensitivity for frequency tuning. They are: "Tuning Knob Desense Factor" - This controls how much the tuning knob pulses are divided by to desensitize the tuning. "Tuning Knob Desense Step Threshold" - This controls the minimum step size that the desense factor comes into play. I set this at 500 and use a desense factor of 10. The end effect is when I set my step size to 500 or greater, the knob pulses are divided by 10. This results in much easier tuning when using large steps. "Pod Knob keys are Toggles" - With this check box turned on, all the pod knob functions are toggles. For example, if you press and hold a key defined for RIT, then while holding the RIT button, the pod knob will move RIT. Once the key is released, the pod knob will always return to VFO A control. Pod Function Keys Without a Pod There are over 25 pod functions that can be assigned to keyboard keys. You can get pod functions from the keyboard without having a griffin knob or TenTec remote pod. The pod functions for numeric 6 to 9 can be done with F6 to F9 on the keyboard. The pod function for the zero key can be done with F10. The pod function for F1 can be done with F11. You can also use the numeric 1 to 5 for pod functions 1 to 5 if the CW keyboard is turned off and you have defined that you have a griffin powermate. Additionally, if the CW keyboard is off, F1 to F5 will operate as pod functions for 1 to 5. Please note the F keys only work as pod keys when the griffin powermate option is selected. Main Tuning Knob Configuration Selection of this option is done in the "Preferences2" window of the "settings" menu. When this option is checked on (the default), the standard graphic tuning knob is displayed and used for frequency changing. Anytime this option is changed, the program must be exited and then started again for the new option setting to become active. When this option is set unchecked, eight buttons appear where the tuning knob used to be located. These buttons are as follows: VFO A - Left clicking this button will cause the main VFO A frequency to go down by one step amount. Right clicking this button will cause the main VFO A frequency to go up one step amount. VFO B - Left clicking this button will cause the alternate VFO B frequency to go down by one step amount. Right clicking this button will cause the alternate VFO B frequency to go up one step amount. FAST A - Left clicking this button will cause the main VFO A frequency to go down by one step amount times the "Fast Tuning Mult". Right clicking this button will cause the main VFO A frequency to go up by one step amount times the "Fast Tuning Mult" amount. See "Fast Tuning Mult" below. FAST B - Left clicking this button will cause the alternate VFO B frequency to go down by one step amount times the "Fast Tuning Mult". Right clicking this button will cause the alternate VFO B frequency to go up by one step amount times the "Fast Tuning Mult" amount. See "Fast Tuning Mult" below. FILTER A - Left clicking this button will cause the main VFO A filter to go to the next wider filter. Right clicking this button will cause the main VFO A filter to go to the next narrower filter. FILTER B - Left clicking this button will cause the alternate VFO A filter to go to the next wider filter. Right clicking this button will cause the alternate VFO B filter to go to the next narrower filter. The VFO B filter setting in displayed in the black area just to the right of the S meter. Here, there are three green indicators to show VFO B mode at the top, then VFO B filter just below mode, and finally VFO B step just below filter. LO CUT - Left clicking this button will cause the next wider filter to be selected and move the pass band tuning to keep the high frequency cutoff constant causing the low frequency cutoff to move down by the change in filter bandwidth. Right clicking this button has exactly the opposite effect. The next narrower filter is selected and the passband tuning is moved to keep the high frequency cutoff constant causing the low frequency cutoff up by the change in filter bandwidth. This button is useful when QRM appears on the low side of the passband. It allows the low side of the passband to be tuned while keeping the high side of the passband constant. This button is only active in SSB mode. HI CUT - Left clicking this button will cause the next narrower filter to be selected causing the high frequency cutoff to move down by the change in filter bandwidth and leaving the low frequency cutoff fixed (the default low frequency cutoff with PBT off is 200 hertz). Right clicking this button has exactly the opposite effect. The next wider filter is selected causing the high frequency cutoff to move up by the change in filter bandwidth. This button is useful when QRM appears on the high side of the passband. It allows the high side of the passband to be tuned while keeping the low side of the passband constant. This button is only active in SSB mode. The value of the "Fast Tuning Mult" can be set using the "Fast Tuning Mult" edit box in the "Preferences2" window of the "settings menu". This value controls the amount of step multiplication used when the "FAST A" and "FAST B" buttons are used. The default value is 10. If the step being used is 50 hertz and this has a value of 10, then when the "FAST A" and "FAST B" buttons are used, the step would become 500 hertz. This controls how much tuning speed up is invoked when using these buttons. Default Filter Definition for Each Mode The default filter positions for each mode are defined with numbers from 1 to 12. Number 1 refers to the top left filter button, number 2 refers to the top center button, and so on to number 12 for the bottom right filter button. These default filter positions are defined in the "Preferences2" window of the "settings" menu. pegasus.ini file add the following to define the default filter buttons for each mode: Default AM Filter Position 2 Default CW Filter Position 12 Default SSB Filter Position 8 Default RTTY Filter Position 11 Default RTTY2 Filter Position 10 This example would make the AM default filter the top center button, the CW default filter the bottom right button, the SSB default filter the third row center button, the RTTY default filter the bottom center, and the RTTY2 default filter the bottom left button. Default AGC Setting for Each Mode The default AGC setting for each mode can be defined in the "Preferences2" window of the "settings" menu. The entry labelled "Do Not Use Auto AGC" simply means to not change the AGC setting when going to that mode. Preferences3 Menu Window The second decimal point in the displayed frequency can be removed. This is useful is you are doing a lot of cut and paste operations. Use the "Remove Extra Decimal" check box. Setting the "No Tune Save" check box will cause the tune power to always be whatever the ALC power slider is set to. Setting it unchecked will cause it to remember the value last set while tune was in progress. The "Left-Right Tuning Knob" check box allows the selection of the tuning method for the main tuning knob. With the check box unchecked, the left mouse button to tunes up or down depending on where you are on the knob. With the check box checked, the left mouse button tunes down and the right mouse button tunes up. When the "Variable Frequency Scale" check box is checked, the analog frequency scale will vary with the step size. For steps less than 100 hertz, the scale is multiplied by 100. For steps between 100 and 1000 hertz, the scale is multiplied by 10. For steps above 1000 hertz, the scale is unchanged. This scale change is primarily for people that do not have the remote tuning pod to aid in dragging the frequency. With this option unchecked, the analog frequency scale is fixed. The "PTT Amp Tune Pulse" check box causes a "pulse tune" method when using Amp Tune. When "AmTn" is on, clicking the "PTT" button will cause a pulsing action to help tune an amplifier in a 50 percent duty cycle instead of 100 percent. The "Remote Pod PTT Toggle" check box allows the remote pod PTT button to be used as a toggle. With this check box on, pushing the remote pod PTT button will cause the Pegasus to go to transmit. Releasing it will do nothing. Pressing it again will cause transmit to stop. The "Use Space for PTT" check box allows the space bar to be used as a PTT toggle. This only works with the CW keyboard off. Setting the "Manual MIC AccInp" check box stops automatic changing between MIC input and acc input when changing between RTTY and other modes. Setting the "Mute Speaker Only" check box causes mute to only mute the speaker and not mute "line out". Setting the "PC keeps time in UTC" check box assumes time on your PC is kept in UTC time. Unchecking this box assumes time in your PC is kept in local time. This value is used in displaying local and UTC time in the radio panel. Setting "Round off Freq by Step size" causes the frequency to be set to a multiple of the step size when the step size changes. When the "Use Line Out for Speaker" is checked, the speaker in the pegasus is always muted. The volume control becomes a line out setting. This is for people who use their sound card in their PC as their speaker and don't want to hear anything from the pegasus speaker. When this check box is changed, a program restart is required for this change to take effect. If you have a Kenwood TS-570S, TS-570D, TS-870S, TS-480, or TS-2000, you can have the program turn the radio on at program start and turn the radio off at program exit. To enable this feature, check the check box labelled "Power On/Off at start/exit". When the "Ten-Tec File Interface" is checked, logging program that use the Ten-Tec file interface will be able to control the pegasus. This is the default and this should normally be set on. When this box is off, the N4PY file interface will be used. There are not many programs that use the N4PY file interface. The "Auto Memory File Entry Select" check box, when on, causes an entry in the memory file that corresponds to the current tuned frequency to be automatically selected. This automatic selection only occurs if the memory file has been sorted by frequency. With this check box off, this selection does not occur. The reason for setting this off is a performance reason. Under some circumstances, this automatic selection can slow down tuning of the radio. The option "Frequency Event Timer" is explained in the "Frequency Event Timer" section. Preferences4 Menu Window The "PBT Drag Scale" and "RIT Drag Scale" are used for setting the fine tuning rate of RIT/XIT and PBT. You can set the fine tuning rates to 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, or 32. Changes to these values do not go into effect until the program is restarted. The "Transfer Folder" box is used to set the folder for the Ten-Tec file interface. It is only valid with "Ten-Tec File Interface=1". Some logging programs using the Ten-Tec file interface are not configurable for the location of "pegasus.out" and "pegasus.in". This parameter allows you to specify the folder for these files. Setting TRANSFER FOLDER C:\PEGASUS would cause the location of the "pegasus.out" and "pegasus.in" files to be in the "c:\pegasus" folder. The default for this parameter is the folder the N4PY control program runs in. The default is in effect if the window shows all blanks. The "High Speed tuning Factor" box causes the tuning rate when the tuning knob is turned at a high rate to be multiplied by this factor's amount. Legal values for this factor are 1 to 10. Use the value of 1 to disable this feature. The Sensitivity box next to this box controls the sensitivity of switching to high speed tuning. A value of 1 makes high speed very easy to trigger. A value of 10 makes high speed almost impossible to trigger. A value somewhere between 2 to 5 should make this work nice. Once in high speed tuning mode, the pod will stay there until the pod stops turning for 0.3 second. The "S Meter Compensation" box is an S meter compensation value that you can select to adjust the calibration of your S meter. This value is expressed in + or - dB. Remember each S unit is 6 dB. For example, to make your S meter always read 12 dB lower (2 S units), you would set the value as follows: S Meter Compensation -12 To make your S meter always read 12 dB higher (2 S units), you would set the value as follows: S Meter Compensation 12 If the "RED Frequency Display on Transmit" check box is on, when transmitting the frequency is displayed in RED. If this box is set off, the frequency is always displayed in yellow. If split is on, the VFO B frequency box will always display the transmit frequency in red as a reminder that split frequency operation is being used. If the "S Meter Display Only" check box is on, the S meter display will not change when transmitting. The "Low AM Power" check box is used when you cannot get enough AM power on the higher frequencies. Set this check box on to get additional AM power if you cannot get 25 watts. The option "AMPTune Disable Keying Loop" is for people that use the amptune feature not to tune their amplifier, but instead to set their antenna tuner. With this option checked on, your amplifier will NOT be keyed when amptune is on and you transmit. The Pegasus "Sweep Delay" setting may be configured. Because the AGC in the Pegasus receiver is not extremely fast even in fast mode, a delay needs to be added when the sweep is running to allow time for the AGC to react to the new frequency as the frequency is swept. The normal value for this parameter is 10 millisecond. You can experiment with increased delays for more sweep resolution. Valid values are 0 to 500. For the Omni VII, you can set this to 0, but do not use 0 for other radios. The box "2nd Receiver Frequency Correction" is a frequency correction factor to account for errors in the displayed frequency when a secondary receiver is used with the pegasus. This correction factor can apply to a direct connected Rx320, or secondary Pegasus or Jupiter. This factor must be the error in hertz at 10 MHz. This value can be expressed as + or -. The box "Scan resume after transmit time" allows you to configure a scan automatic resume time. If the scan was stopped because the transmitter came on, this value controls how long transmit has to be off before scan comes back on again. A zero value means no automatic scan resume is used. The value of the resume time is in seconds. Frequency Scan Window (not Omni VII) FrScan, Options Window (Omni VII) Selecting this window will show the frequency scan controls. The scan will start at the "Frequency Start" setting. When the radio reaches the "Frequency Stop" setting, it will loop back to the "Frequency Start" setting. The "Frequency Increment" controls how much is added to the scan frequency for each dwell time. The "Dwell Time" setting controls how long the radio remains on each frequency. To start the scan, "click" the "Start Frequency Scan" button". To stop the scan, "click" the "Stop Frequency Scan" button. The scan will not start if a memory scan or spectrum sweep is in progress. The scan will be stopped if the radio goes into transmit mode. You can control the direction of the scan. If the start frequency is less than the stop frequency, the scan will go up in frequency. If the start frequency is greater than the stop frequency, the scan will go down in frequency. Additionally, if you are using the Omni VII in remote mode, there are some Omni VII configuration controls in this window. They are: "Enable IF 300 Filter" - turn this on if the have the 300 hertz Collins mechanical filter installed. "Enable IF 500 Filter" - turn this on if the have the 500 hertz Collins mechanical filter installed. "IF Filter Selection" - This drop down window allows you to specify the IF filter you want. Setting it to "Auto" lets the Omni VII select the appropriate filter that best matches the DSP filter selected. "RX Equalizer" - This drop down window allows you to specify how much receiver equalization you want. See the Omni VII owner's manual for a full explanation of these values and what they mean. A value of "Flat" means 0 DB and no equlization. "TX Equalizer" - This drop down window allows you to specify how much transmit equalization you want. See the Omni VII owner's manual for a full explanation of these values and what they mean. A value of "Flat" means 0 DB and no equlization. Colors Window In order to help out hams with sight difficulties, the color of the button text can be configured. There are three settings to control the text colors of the buttons. Additionally, you can also define the color for local time display and UTC time display. There are 8 standard colors that can be selected. They are BLACK, WHITE, RED, GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW, PURPLE, and CYAN. There are also 2 user definable colors that can be selected with the names COLOR1 and COLOR2. Local Time This entry sets the color of the text for the display of local time. UTC Time This entry sets the color of the text for the display of UTC time. Button Text This entry sets the color of the text for all non-selected buttons. Button Sel Text This entry sets the color of the text for all selected buttons. Special Button Sel Text This entry sets the color of the selected text for the five special buttons LOCK, TUNE, DUAL, AMPTN, and SPLIT. CW Bkgnd This entry sets the color of the background for the CW keyboard window. Settings Bkgnd This entry sets the color of the background for the settings window. CW Text This entry sets the color of the text for the CW keyboard window. To define the user color called COLOR1, three settings are used to specify the amount of red, green, and blue to make up the color. The range for the amount of each color is 0 to 255. Color1 Red This entry controls the amount of red in the Color1 color. Color1 Green This entry controls the amount of green in the Color1 color. Color1 Blue This entry controls the amount of blue in the Color1 color. To define the user color called COLOR2, three settings are used to specify the amount of red, green, and blue to make up the color. The range for the amount of each color is 0 to 255. Color2 Red This entry controls the amount of red in the Color2 color. Color2 Green This entry controls the amount of green in the Color2 color. Color2 Blue This entry controls the amount of blue in the Color2 color. SWL Band Assign Window This window allows the 11 SWL band buttons to be defined to any frequency range you like. If you do not use the SWL bands and prefer to make these buttons be RTTY buttons or if you just want to make these buttons be any band you desire, you can do it here. The first column is labelled "Caption". The 11 edit boxes in this column allow you to name the button text for the SWL band buttons. The second column labelled "Lower Limit", allows you to set the lower frequency limit for the band you are defining. The third column labelled "Upper Limit", allows you to set the upper frequency limit for the band you are defining. Be careful when you set up your band ranges not to have any bands overlap. The first time you go to the new band you have defined, you should set the mode you desire for this band. The button will now remember the frequency, mode, and filter when you return to this band. You can change the column name for the SWL band buttons. This is the box at the bottom labelled "Column Name" in the "SWL Band Assign" window. Call Sign, TopTen Window Your call sign can be displayed on the control panel. You set your call sign in the "Call Sign" box in this window. You can define the color of the text of your call sign on the radio panel. They are BLACK, WHITE, RED, GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW, PURPLE, and CYAN. There are also 2 user definable colors that can be selected with the names COLOR1 and COLOR2. The default is BLACK. You can also define the relative size of the characters by using the "Call Sign Size" box. You can set the relative size from a value of 1 (the default), to a value of 15 (probably too large). For the boxes labelled "TopTen Devices", see the section on using Top Ten devices antenna control near the end of this file. 6 & 2 Transverters Window 6m Crystal Correction If you use the Ten-Tec 6 meter transverter, you can get the display to show the frequency very accurately by specifying the amount of error in the transverter crystal frequency. Specify this error in hertz with a plus or minus sign in the edit box. 6M Drive Power Max (0-255) You can specify the maximum amount of ALC drive to the transverter with this parameter. Its range is 0 to 255 with 255 corresponding to 100 watts. Use caution when setting this. 5 watts is the recommended setting which corresponds to a setting of 13. The scale of the TX slider is adjusted so that full scale corresponds to this value. 6M IF This parameter controls the internal IF frequency to the pegasus will be set at when using the converter. The TenTec transverter uses at 14 MHz IF. This is the default value. If you are using some other transverter that uses a different IF, you can specify it in this edit box. 2m Crystal Correction If you use the Ten-Tec 2 meter transverter, you can get the display to show the frequency very accurately by specifying the amount of error in the transverter crystal frequency. Specify this error in hertz with a plus or minus sign in the edit box. 2M Drive Power Max (0-255) You can specify the maximum amount of ALC drive to the transverter with this parameter. Its range is 0 to 255 with 255 corresponding to 100 watts. Use caution when setting this. 5 watts is the recommended setting which corresponds to a setting of 13. The scale of the TX slider is adjusted so that full scale corresponds to this value. 2M IF This parameter controls the internal IF frequency to the pegasus will be set at when using the converter. The TenTec transverter uses at 28 MHz IF. This is the default value. If you are using some other transverter that uses a different IF, you can specify it in this edit box. If the "Suppress Transverter Warnings" check box is on, no warnings will be issued when leaving a transverter band. User Configurable Transverters Window There are 5 user configurable transverter setups that the user can setup to work with virtually any transverter. These transverters are in addition to the 6 and 2 meter transverter setups that are built in. These transverters are configured in the "User 1 & 2 TranV" window, the "User 3 & 4 TranV" window, and the "User 5 TranV" window. The transverter must not be in the 1.7 MHz to 30 MHz range (the pegasus can transmit in this range) and the transverter must tune in the same direction as the IF frequency. That is to say, as you tune the transverter to a higher frequency, the pegasus IF frequency must also go higher as well. You cannot use an inverting transverter. For each transverter, there are 6 parameters to configure. They are: User N Lower Limit This sets the lower frequency limit for the transverter. It also enables the transverter and makes its band button appear after and program restart. User N Upper Limit This sets the upper frequency limit for the transverter. User N IF This tells the program what frequency to set the pegasus to at the lower limit of the transverter range. User N Button Text This tells the program what text to display on the band button for this transverter. It is limited to 4 characters. User N Drive Pwr Max (0-255) This sets the maximum drive power the pegasus will run at to drive the transverter. Its range is 0 to 255. 255 corresponds to 100 watts. 13 is the default which corresponds to 5 watts. Great care should be used in setting this value. The scale of the TX slider is adjusted so that full scale corresponds to this value. User N Crystal Correction You can get the display to show the frequency very accurately by specifying the amount of error in the transverter crystal frequency. Specify this error in hertz with a plus or minus sign in the edit box. There is also a "Marker" edit box. This allows you to place a value for a calibrating marker frequency. You can then tune in this marker frequency and click "Calibrate". This will then automatically compute a new crystal correction. The band buttons for these transverters only appear when the particular transverter is configured. The buttons are in the lower right corner of the radio window. Care must be taken when setting up these parameters, as bad values can cause strange problems. Tokyo High Power Amplifier HL-1.5KFX There are special Tokyo High Power settings in the "Usr5 TrnsV, Steppir" settings window. Here you will find a "Tokyo High Power Comport" check box and comport list box. If you are using the Tokyo High Power Amplifier HL-1.5KFX this is where you define the comport number for the HL-1.5KFX amplifier. The program will run the comport at 9600 baud and use a Kenwood interface to communicate with the amplifier. Connect the serial cable to the Kenwood amplifier serial connection and set the band control on the amplifier to "Kenwood". The program will send out the operating frequency to the amplifier once a second. The serial cable for the Tokyo High Power amp needs to be a null modem cable. That is pin 3 (transmit data) on the computer end needs to go to pin 2 (receive data) on the amp end. Also pin 5 for ground on the computer end needs to go to pin 5 on the amp end. Steppir Settings Window For Steppir control with the Omni VII, if your Omni VII is at firmware verison 1.023 or later, you can do it with just one serial port. You need to set the Omni VII menu command to "Steppir/CT". Then simply use a Y cable and set steppir to listen only mode for an Orion. Do not turn on the Steppir setting in the "Usr5 TrnsV, Steppir" settings window. For serail remote mode, also turn on the setting in the "Interface" window labelled "Using Microham Band Decoder". This causes the program to poll the radio for frequency so the steppir controller can follow it. This setup will work fine except over ethernet. For ethernet operation see below. If you need to use 2 serial ports there are special Steppir settings in the "Usr5 TrnsV, Steppir" settings window. Here you will find a "Separate Steppir Comport" check box and comport list box. If you are using the Steppir and need to use a separate comport for Steppir, this is where you define the comport number for the Steppir controller. The program will run the Steppir comport at 57600 baud and use a TenTec Orion interface to communicate with the Steppir controller. Connect the serial cable to the steppir "data in" port, not the data out port. For the Omni VII, the separate comport must be used. For the Omni VII operating directly at the computer site via its serial you need to make up a special cable to connect the computer serial port to the steppir controller "data in" port. The cable can be made with a piece of coax with a female DB9 on the computer end and a female DB9 on the "data in" steppir controller end. On the computer end, connect the coax center pin to DB9 pin 3. Connect the coax shield to DB9 pin 5. On the steppir end, connect the coax center pin to DB9 pin 2. Connect the coax shield to pin 5. Also jumper pins 7 and 9 together. For the Omni VII operating remotely via ethernet, you need to make up a special cable to connect the Omni VII serial port to the steppir controller "data in" port. The cable can be made with a piece of coax with a male DB9 on the radio end and a female DB9 on the "data in" steppir controller end. On the radio end, connect the coax center pin to DB9 pin 2. Connect the coax shield to DB9 pin 5. Also, jumper pins 7 and 8 together only at the radio end. On the steppir end, connect the coax center pin to DB9 pin 2. Connect the coax shield to pin 5. Also jumper pins 7 and 9 togther only at the steppir end. Turn on the check box in "Usr5 TrnsV, Steppir" that says "Separate Steppir Comport". In this case the selected comport number is not used. RTTY Settings Menu Window The "RTTY Settings" window of the "settings" menu contains options to control the RTTY and digital mode operations. The RTTY button is configurable. The label for the button can be specified, the actual operating mode can be set to USB or LSB, and the frequency offset in hertz can be specified. If an offset of zero is specified, the mode will operate just like USB or LSB. For example, you can define this button for use for PSK31 as follows: RTTY Label PSK31 RTTY Mode USB RTTY Offset 0 You can also define a second RTTY mode. You select your second RTTY mode by right clicking on the "RTTY" button. To define a second RTTY mode set the following settings: RTTY Label 2 RTTY RTTY Mode 2 LSB RTTY Offset 2 2100 The RTTY Label 2 parameter being defined activates RTTY mode 2. The bottom line is if you are using any of the newer digital modes, use the PSK31 example above. If the are using the older RTTY standard RTTY, use the example above for RTTY Mode 2. For the Elecraft K2, the offset is handled in the firmware so there is no setting for offset. When the "Output RTTY Mode is RTTY Label" check box is set, the text for the mode in the pegasus.out file for the RTTY modes will show as the value you have defined for your RTTY label. With this check box set to off (the default), either USB or LSB will show as the mode text for the RTTY modes in the pegasus.out file. Step Window The "step buttons" are user configurable to any step between 1 and 10000. They are configured in the "step" window of the "settings" menu. The default values for the operating modes can be configured to any step between 1 and 10000. They are also configured on the "step" window of the "settings" menu. Note that in AM mode, if the frequency is in a HAM band, the AM step will be the value specified for SSB step. Also note that MW Step defines the step value for the American AM broadcast band. Interface Window This window allows you to configure the radio you have connected to your primary comport. The choices are check boxes as follows: "Pegasus/Jupiter" - This check box defines the Pegasus or Jupiter in "Pegasus Emulation Mode" as the primary interface. "Get Jupiter at Start" - This check box is used to get the Jupiter VFO A frequency, mode, filter, and VFO B frequency from the Jupiter at startup when using the Jupiter in "Pegasus Emulation Mode". It will also cause the current VFO A frequency, mode, filter, and VFO B Frequency to be sent to the Jupiter at exit of the program. This setting makes using the Jupiter with the program more streamlined with front panel mode. Do not turn this setting on with a Pegasus!!! Also, the Jupiter must be at firmware version 1.19 or later to use this setting. One other note- if you see a small discrepancy in frequency, it is because you have calibrated the program to allow for a small frequency error in the Jupiter. "Jupiter Logging Mode Only" - To use this mode on the Jupiter, the Jupiter must be at firmware version 1.19 or later. This is a special check box. It says you are only using the N4PY control program to allow logging programs to get and set information to and from the Jupiter by using the Pegasus "Ten-Tec File Interface". You must tell your logging program you are using a Pegasus. In this mode, you should never try to set any values to or from the Jupiter with the N4PY control program. You should be doing all your Jupiter functions from the Jupiter front panel or the logging program. The N4PY control program will poll the RX350 at 1 second intervals to get new frequency, filter, and mode information. There are also two buttons for saving and restoring the Jupiter memories. The two buttons are as follows: SvMem - Clicking this button will allow you to select a "CDF" file to save the memories in. The memories will be saved in a standard CDF file that can be used later to import files. It takes about 2 minutes to save the 128 memories. The Jupiter memories are numbered 0 to 127. If this function does not work, power the jupiter off and then back on and run this function again. There is a problem in firmware version 1.19 that sometimes prevents this save memory function from working properly. RsMem - Clicking this button will allow you to select a "CDF" file to restore memories from the file to the Jupiter. Firmware version 1.18 has a few problems associated with restoring memories. If the Jupiter memories are empty, you need to store one memory manually first. You then run the restore memory function of the program. When this function completes, you then need to store any one memory manually again to get the memories saved into the flash memory of the Jupiter. If you don't do this, the memories will be gone when you power off the Jupiter. During the Save and Restore memory operations, the current memory will show as the text on the "Store" below, just to the left of the "Recall" button. "RX350 Only" - This check box defines the RX350 as the primary and only interface. With this setup, the normal operation is to use the N4PY control program for all RX350 control. However, if you temporarily use the RX350 front panel for control, you can click the "Refrsh" button to get the RX350 front panel and N4PY control program back in step for frequency, filter, and mode. If you are seeing a frequency difference between what the rx350 displays and what the program displays, this is normal. It is because a "calibrate" function (See Calibrate) was performed at some previous time. When a calibrate function is done, the program determines the error in hertz that the rx350 has. This error is then corrected and the display on the program will be the correct frequency. The display on the rx350 will show the uncorrected frequency. If you do not like this and want to remove the correction, tune from the program until the rx350 display shows 10.000.000 MHz. Once there click "calibrate" at the top of the program, and the two displays will be in sync. Because of rounding errors, this may take a couple of tries to get the frequency correction completely removed. An alternate way to remove this correction is to go into the "pegasus.ini" file, find the "frequency correction" parameter, and set it to zero. There are also two buttons for saving and restoring the RX350 memories. The two buttons are as follows: SvMem - Clicking this button will allow you to select a "CDF" file to save the memories in. The memories will be saved in a standard CDF file that can be used later to import files. It takes about 2 minutes to save the 128 memories. The rx350 memories are numbered 0 to 127. Only the current bank of memories is saved. If you want to save more banks, you can just change to a new memory bank and save again to another file. The RX350 memories contain the frequency, mode, and filter setting. RsMem - Clicking this button will allow you to select a "CDF" file to restore memories from the file to the rx350. All the memories will go to the current memory bank. Firmware version 1.14 has a few problems associated with restoring memories. If the RX350 memories are empty, you need to store one memory manually first. You then run the restore memory function of the program. During the Save and Restore memory operations, the current memory will show as the text on the "Store" below, just to the left of the "Recall" button. "RX320 Only" - This check box defines the RX320 as the primary and only interface. "RX340 Only" - This check box defines the RX340 as the primary and only interface. "RX331 Only" - This check box defines the RX331 as the primary and only interface. "RX330 Only" - This check box defines the RX330 as the primary and only interface. "RX331/RX340 BAUD Rate" - This list box defines the baud rate to be used to communicate with the RX331/RX340. "Argonaut V" - To use this mode on the Argonaut V, the Argonaut V must be at firmware version 1.04 or later. When using the Argonaut V you can use logging programs to get and set information to and from the Argonaut V by using the Pegasus "Ten-Tec File Interface". You must tell your logging program you are using a Pegasus. In this mode, you may control the Argonaut V with the N4PY control program or the Argonaut V front panel or the logging program. The N4PY control program will poll the Argonaut V at 4 second intervals to get new frequency, filter, and mode information. During a poll operation which is very brief, you may occasionally find a mouse button will not operate. If this happens simply click the button again until it takes effect. Also, because the Argonaut V serial interface is very slow, the program S meter is only updated 5 times a second (instead of 20). Also, spectrum sweep is slow because of the slow serial port. The S meter is shut off while using the CW keyboard Keyer to improve timing. One thing to notice is that if the Argonaut V is in AM mode, the filters are actually twice the normal bandwidth. They will display on the Argonaut V in their true bandwidth but the program will show the bandwidth as half the true value. Thus if a 3000 hertz filter is selected in AM mode, it will display on the radio as 6000 hertz but show in the program as 3000 hertz. There are several features that cannot be used on the Argonaut V because the serial commands are not available for them. There is no volume setting, power setting, transmit notification, CW offset, mic gain, transmit filter, line level, squelch control, or vox control in the serial interface. There is also no separate transmit frequency. So you will notice that split mode comes on when you use RIT. The user transverters may be a problem with the Argonaut V. It is impossible to transmit out of the ham bands with the Argonaut V and the power level cannot be controlled from the PC. The main VFO in the Argo V will follow VFO A in the program. The Argo V inactive VFO will follow the program VFO B. Do not confuse the meaning of VFO A and B in the program verses the meaning of VFO A and B in the Argo V. In the Argo V, either VFO A or VFO B can be the main VFO. In the program, VFO A is always the main VFO. So, if the Argo V has VFO B set as the main VFO, the program VFO A and the Argo V VFO B will be the same. If you keep the main VFO on the Argo V always set to VFO A, it will be less confusing. There are also two buttons for saving and restoring the Argonaut V memories. The two buttons are as follows: SvMem - Clicking this button will allow you to select a "CDF" file to save the memories in. The memories will be saved in a standard CDF file that can be used later to import files. It takes about 2 minutes to save the 100 memories. The Argonaut V memories are numbered 1 to 100. RsMem - Clicking this button will allow you to select a "CDF" file to restore memories from the file to the Argonaut V. It takes about 2 minutes to restore all 100 memories. During the Save and Restore memory operations, the current memory will show as the text on the "Store" below, just to the left of the "Recall" button. "Omni VII Front Panel Mode" The Omni VII is supported in 3 different ways. If you primarily want to operate the Omni VII directly from the radio and just do occational things from the program, then in the "Interface" window, you should select "Omni VII Front Panel". The Omni VII must be in normal front panel mode for this. You put the Omni VII normal front panel mode press rebooting the Omni VII with the "1" key pressed and held. Please note in this mode the Tentec 302 remote tuning knob cannot be used under program control. There is an interesting way to get all your settings restored if you have to do a master reset. Once all your settings are lost, put your Omni VII in remote serial mode. Then run the N4PY program also in remote serial mode. Make sure all the settings you want are correct and set in the N4PY program. Then exit the N4PY program. While still in remote mode on the Omni VII, go into and then out of the menu. This will save all the settings in the Omni VII. Now when you go back to radio front panel mode, all your settings will be restored. "Omni VII Remote Mode" The second way the Omni VII is supported is remote mode. This does not mean you must be using the Omni VII remotely, only that all the function of the Omni VII must be from a computer. This mode in the program allows full Omni VII operation from the serial port. You select remote mode if you want to control everything from the program and nothing from the radio. This is the preferred mode to operate. The radio is 100% controllable from the program this way. To select remote mode in the program, go to the "Interface" window and select "Omni VII Remote Mode". You will also need to put the Omni VII itself into remote mode. You do this by rebooting the Omni VII with the "2" key pressed and held. Make sure in remote mode, you go to the Omni VII menu and set the first gateway IPADDR to 0. This turns off all ethernet processing in the Omni VII and makes serial port processing much faster. If you see ethernet statistics on the Omni VII screen, you need to do this. Also, do not change frequency, volume, or press any of the band buttons directly on the Omni VII while in this mode. Doing this will get the program and radio out of step. Use of the Tentec 302 remote tuning pod is highly recommended for full control of the Omni VII in local remote mode. "Omni VII Remote Mode via Ethernet" To use this mode with remote transmit and receive audio, you must first install One Plug and go through all the help information supplied by Tentec to get One Plug running. Once you have One Plug up and and running, exit the One Plug program. This serves as a diagnostic that your sound card will function with One Plug. In order to use this version via ethernet, your Omni VII must be at firmware version 1.019 or later. To select remote mode via ethernet in the N4PY program, place a check in the "Omni VII Remote Mode" box and also the "Use Ethernet" box. This will cause the comport list box to go away and give you 3 new edit boxes and 1 new check box. They are: Radio IP - put the TCP/IP address in dotted decimal form that you have selected for the Omni VII. This would be a value like 192.168.1.123 and it must be the same is what you put in the radio for the RADIO IPADDR, just that in the program each value is separated with a period. You can also put a network name in this field if your radio has a registered network name. Port - this is the same value that you put in the Omni VII radio for UDP CMD PORT. Note there is no period in the value that goes into the program. The default is 49152. The port value must be between 49152 and 65430. Pass Code - this value is the same as what you put in the Omni VII radio for NET PASSCODE. This must match the radio's value. The default for this is 0. You will also need to put the Omni VII itself into remote mode. You do this by rebooting the Omni VII with the "2" key pressed and held. When operating the Omni VII remotely via ethernet, you will see a small number in the upper left corner of the program radio panel. This number shows the numnber of unacknowledged messages in the programs send queue. At program startup there are 45 messages that are sent to the radio to get the radio in a completely known condition. You should wait for this number to go to zero before trying to operate the radio remotely. Normally on a good network, this should only take a few seconds. If after a while connection with the radio is lost, the program will say "Initializing Radio" again and this queue number may go above zero. It is normal for this number to occationally go to 5 or 10 when changing bands. This is a useful indicator of how well the internet connection is operating. The closer to zero this number stays, the better network. Also, this box's background color is color coded to tell you the state of the ethernet connection. The background colors are as follows: Red - no connection with the radio has been established. If this box stays red for more than a few seconds, check your ethernet connections and the 3 ethernet setting boxes in the "Interface" window. Yellow - The radio has been heard from and initialization is in progress. Green - The radio is fully initialized and operating. After the radio is communicating and the above status indicator shows green, a "RIP OK" button will show. Normally you will have this button show blue for selected. If for some reason you want to stop receiving RIP digital audio packets from the radio, you can click this button off. The default setting for this is on, and it will remember the setting from the previous running of the program. Also, just below this button is a link quality percentage. This shows the percent of good messages received on the link. The closer this is to 100.00 the better. If you leave the "RIP OK" button off, then the N4PY sound card program will not be started. This allows you to run your own sound card program such as Skype. The N4PY sound card program is not started until the N4PY control program receives the first RIP audio packet from the Omni VII. If you want to use Skype just for transmit audio and still use RIP on receive, then set "RIP OK" to on, and set "Do Not Use TRIP" in the SSB settings window. The "RIP OK" button can also be used as a mute button. The slider on the very left labelled "PV" controls the PC Volume. Please note this slider does not operate when using Vista. For Vista, use the PC volume controls directly. There are two settings in the SSB settings window for RIP and TRIP compression. Experiment with these settings and see what works best for you. Having both RIP and TRIP compression turned on reduces internet bandwidth and is probably the best setting. "RIP OK" must be off to change the "Use Compressed RIP" setting. You also must be in receive mode to change either the "Use Compressed TRIP" or "Do Not Use TRIP" setting. There is also a setting in the SSB settings window that is labelled "Tie TRIP to RIP". This controls how the timing of TRIP packets are sent out. There is less bandwidth required on the internet if this is turned off, but you may have better transmit audio if this is turned on. Experiment with this setting and see what works best for you. You must be in receive mode to change this setting. When "RIP OK" is turned on, the direct audio on the Omni VII may be muted, and the display may be blanked according to 2 settings in the SSB settings window. "Display Always On" will keep the display from being blanked when "RIP OK" is turned on. Also, "Sound Always On", will keep the Omni VII direct sound always on when "RIP OK" is turned on. You can of course still set the AF slider to its minimum value to stop the direct audio. Having this setting on is useful when you want to hear transmit monitor audio directly from the Omni VII. There is also a box in the SSB settings window for PC mic gain. This is used to set the best gain for the PC microphone. The range for this is 1 to 75. The default is 30. There is also a box in the SSB settings window for TRIP gain. This is used to set the best gain for transmit with the Omni VII in ethernet mode. The range for this is 1 to 9. The default is 6. If for some reason the program terminates abnormally, the Omni VII sound card program will be left running and must be manually terminated. To do this, press "Alt-Ctrl-Delete" to bring up the task manager. Here look for the task "N4PY Sound Card" and select it. Then click "End Task". This will manually terminate the program. For quick and easy remote PTT, I turn the option on "Use Space for PTT" in "Preferences3". This allows the keyboard space bar to be used to turn PTT on and off. "Elecraft K2" - When using the Elecraft K2 you can use logging programs to get and set information to and from the Elecraft K2 by using the Pegasus "Ten-Tec File Interface". You must tell your logging program you are using a TenTec Pegasus. In this mode, you may control the Elecraft K2 with the N4PY control program or the Elecraft K2 front panel or the logging program. The N4PY control program will automatically update itself from the K2. Filters on the K2 are handled with a special settings window called "K2 Filters". In this window, you define for the program, the bandwidth for FL1, FL2, FL3, and FL4 for CW, SSB, and RTTY mode. You should pick the nearest bandwidth value that is in the list for each filter. Once you have all 12 filter boxes defined properly, right click on the 12 filter front panel buttons and make sure each K2 filter size you have selected is somewhere on the 12 filter buttons. Lastly, make sure the Preferences2 window has the correct settings for the default filters for each mode. The K2 DSP unit is supported. If you have the K2 DSP unit, enable it in the program by turning on the check box "DSP Installed" in the "User Buttons" window. You must exit and restart the program for this to take effect. There are 7 buttons on the left side of the program radio panel to control DSP. Thay are as follows: "DSP" - This button is used to turn DSP on or off. DSP is enabled if this button is highlited. "FIL 1" to "FIL 4" - These buttons select the appropriate DSP filter. "NR 1" - This button is used to turn noise reduction off and on. Left clicking the button toggles NR off and on. Right clicking this button, advances the NR level to the next level. "Anotch" - This button toggles the auto notch off and on. Please note that while a DSP operation is in progress, do not press any keys until the DSP operation has finished. This is indicated by the K2 display returning to a frequency display. Also, the program needs the K2 display to be returned to the frequency display if you manually bring up the DSP or other menus. When the program is started, the K2 display must not be in any menu. There are 6 user configurable buttons for the K2. They are initially labelled "User1", "User2", "User3", and "User4". These buttons can be defined to perform any K2 front panel button function. In the "User Buttons" window, you can define the button text you want for each of these buttons and the switch values for the user button. The switch values run from 1 to 69 and are defined in the table below. You can assign more than 1 value for each button, just separate the values with a space. For example, if you want to make the "User1" button be "Band Up", you would put "Bnd Up" for the User1 button text and a value of "1" which corresponds to the band up switch number. Use a value of blank to disable the key. Switch Value Switch Value Switch Value Switch Value BAND+ 01 A/B 09* RECALL 17 REV 25* DISPLAY 02 A=B 10* RF/ALC 18 SPLIT 26* BAND- 03 PRE/ATT 11* STORE 19 SPOT 27* ANT 1/2 04* AGC 12* TUNE 20* CW RV 28* MENU 05 XFIL 13 EDIT 21 AFIL 29 NB 06* RIT 14* NB LEVEL 22* PF1 30 RATE 07 XIT 15* LOCK 23 PF2 31 MODE 08 MSG 16 VOX 24* REC 32 Function Value FINE RIT on/off 33 Direct Freq. Entry 34 Fwd/Refl Power 35 AGC on/off 36* XFIL/AFIL status 37 Please note that values above marked with "*" should be done through the normal program buttons and not by setting the User buttons to do them. Primary Menu Secondary Menu Entry Value Entry Value Entry Value Entry Value ST L 38 LCD 46 SLCH 54 RTC 62 ST P 39 GRPH 47 RATES 55 RIT 63 T-R 40 OPT 48 DOT 56 ACC 64 INP 41 ATU 49 FPLY 57 AT2 65 RPT 42 RANT 50 PORT 58 PA 66 IAB 43 CAL 51 SPLT 59 TRN1 67 SSBA 44 PF1 52 Po28 60 TRN2 68 SSBC 45 PF2 53 RTTY 61 TRN3 69 There are several features that cannot be used on the K2 because the serial commands are not available for them. There is no volume setting, power setting, mic gain, transmit filter, line level, vox gain, or anti-vox. The user transverters may be a problem with the K2. It is impossible to transmit much out of the ham bands with the K2. If you have 6 and/or 2 meter transverters that already work with your K2, you can still use the "6" and "2" band buttons to use them. All you have to do is configure the 6 meter and 2 meter transverters as straight through. You do this by going to the "6 & 2 TransV" window and setting the "6m IF" to "50.0" and the "2m IF" to "144.0". Set both crystal corrections to 0. And set both drive levels to 255. The main VFO in the K2 will follow VFO A in the program. The inactive VFO will follow the program VFO B. Do not confuse the meaning of VFO A and B in the program verses the meaning of VFO A and B in the K2. In the K2, either VFO A or VFO B can be the main VFO. In the program, VFO A is always the main VFO. So, if the K2 has VFO B set as the main VFO, the program VFO A and the K2 VFO B will be the same. If you keep the main VFO on the K2 always set to VFO A, it will be less confusing. There is a button on the program radio panel called "Ant 1". This button will cause the K2 to select antenna 1 or antenna 2. This button is remembered by band and must be set to what you want the very first time you go to a new band with the program. Also, make sure you have the "SPLT" option on the K2 set to "NOR" and not "PER". When in "PER", the program has trouble with band changes and will not remember the "split" setting properly. "Kenwood" When using a Kenwood radio you can use logging programs to get and set information to and from the Kenwood radio by using the Pegasus "Ten-Tec File Interface". You must tell your logging program you are using a TenTec Pegasus. In this mode, you may control the Kenwood radio with the N4PY control program or the Kenwood radio front panel or the logging program. The N4PY control program will automatically update itself from the Kenwood radio. For the TS-850 and TS-950, the program filter selections have special meanings. They select various IF filter combinations according to the following table: Selected Program Actual 8.83 Actual 455 Filter Setting 12K none Wide FM 7K none Narrow FM 6K 6K 6K 2.7K 2.7K 6K 2.6K 6K 2.7K 2.4K 2.7K 2.7K 600 Hz 500 Hz 2.7K 500 Hz 2.7K 500 Hz 400 Hz 500 Hz 500 Hz 270 Hz 270 Hz 2.7K For the TS-950 you can also have: 250 Hz 2.7K 250 Hz 220 Hz 270 Hz 250 Hz You can right click on the 12 filter front panel buttons and make each filter button be what you like. Once you have the 12 filter buttons defined, make sure the Preferences2 window has the correct settings for the default filters for each mode. The TS-850 and TS-950 are fixed at 4800 baud. For the TS-570, TS-870, TS-480, and TS-2000, there is a baud rate option that appears in the Interface section when these radios are selected. You should use the highest speed (38400) that works well. In the TS-570, this is menu item 35. For the TS-870, TS-480, and TS-2000, this is menu item 56. Remember when you change the baud rate in the program, the change does not take effect until the program is exited and restarted. This is also true for the radio, in that after changing the baud rate in the radio, you have to power the radio off and then on for the menu change to take effect. Also, the TS-450 will work with the TS-950 setting. For the TS-480, you must have menu function 45 turned OFF for correct operation of the HICUT and LOCUT program buttons. The main VFO in the radio will follow VFO A in the program. The inactive VFO will follow the program VFO B. Do not confuse the meaning of VFO A and B in the program verses the meaning of VFO A and B in the radio. In the radio, either VFO A or VFO B can be the main VFO. In the program, VFO A is always the main VFO. So, if the radio has VFO B set as the main VFO, the program VFO A and the radio VFO B will be the same. If you keep the main VFO on the radio always set to VFO A, it will be less confusing. The TS-950 and TS-2000 sub-receiver will follow VFO B when the DUAL button is on. With the TS-2000, if DUAL is on, the volume of the sub-receiver is controlled with the "VB" slider. For the Kenwood ts-570, 870, 480, and 2000, there is a meter button that says either ALCmtr or SWRMtr. Clicking this button toggles between the S meter displaying ALC or SWR during transmit. The Elecraft K3 is also selected with an entry in the Kenwood drop down list. The K3 is now supported but there are currently still a few functions that Elecraft has now yet implemented to allow full software control. Elecraft has not yet implemented any commands for setting pass band tuning or anything for the second receiver. As soon as these commands are implemeted in the K3 firmware, I will be adding them to this program. I recommend you run the K3 at 38,400 baud only. You set this speed in the "Kenwood Baud" box of the "Interface" window. Just remember to exit and restart the program for a change in this window to take effect. When using the K3 in AM mode, if you have the AM board installed, you can toggle between AM and sync AM by left clicking the AM mode button again once you are already in AM mode. Also, in AM mode, the filter width displayed in the program is half of what is displayed by the K3. The K3 must be at MCU firmware level 1.98 or later. "Check CTS" This option controls whether additional CTS checking is done when sending data over the serial port. The default for this is off. Turn this option off if program operations to the radio seem too slow. Turn this option on if the radio seems to be not receiving some program operations or the comport is locking up. Use of this option and need of this option varies greatly depending on the brand of serial port you are using on your computer. "Using USB Converter with No Int" Only turn this checkbox on if you are using a USB to serial converter that does not provide the program an interrupt when a message is received. This should only be tried when all else has failed to establish communication between the program and radio. "WriteLog Multiple Radio Interface" - This feature should only be turned on when using WriteLog and running multiple instances of the N4PY program with each instance controlling a separate radio. This feature allows WriteLog to log each instance of each N4PY program to a separate log file in WriteLog. Each instance is associated with the primary comport number the N4PY program is using. "Using Microham Band Decoder" - Set this checkbox when you are using the Microham band decoder with a Kenwood or Elecraft radio. It causes the "IF" command to be sent to the radio once a second so the band decoder can keep track of settings. All changes to the above check boxes require a program restart before they go into effect. The list box on this window defines the comport number used as the primary radio port. Interface2 Window This window allows you to configure the radio you have connected to your second comport. The choices are check boxes as follows: Special note for users of the Elecraft K2 when using a Pegasus, Jupiter, RX350, or RX320 as a second receiver with the K2: Because the K2 does not have general coverage, there is a special feature that causes the second receiver to become VFO A when the program is not in the ham bands. This switch from the K2 to the second receiver occurs automatically as long as Spectrum Sweep is off and DUAL receive is off. During the time that the second receiver is on VFO A, the VB silder will control its volume. Also all access to the settings menu is disabled and DUAL and Sweep are not allowed during this time. Switching back to a ham band will restore all operation back to normal. "RX320" - This check box defines the RX320 as the second receiver to be used as a sub-receiver with the Pegasus/Jupiter, K2, or Omni VII. "Second Pegasus/Jupiter" - This check box defines a second Pegasus/Jupiter as the second receiver to be used as a sub-receiver with the primary Pegasus/Jupiter, K2, or Omni VII. "RX350" - This check box defines the RX350 as the second receiver to be used as a sub-receiver with the Pegasus/Jupiter or K2. "RX331" - This check box defines the RX331 to be used as the main receiver and the Pegasus/Jupiter receiver to be used as a sub-receiver. "RX330" - This check box defines the RX330 to be used as the main receiver and the Pegasus/Jupiter receiver to be used as a sub-receiver. "RX340" - This check box defines the RX340 to be used as the main receiver and the Pegasus/Jupiter receiver to be used as a sub-receiver. If you are using the Omni VII as your main radio, then select "Omni VII Remote Mode" in the "Interface" window. Turning this setting on will allow the RX340 to be used as sub-receiver with the Omni VII while in the ham bands, and make the RX340 be the main receiver when not in the ham bands. Operation of switching main receivers is done automatically and controlled by the program's front panel button "RS OK". This button means "radio swap is Ok". With this button turned on (highlited), when you change frequencies and go out of the ham bands, the RX340 automatically becomes the main receiver. And when you switch back to the ham bands, the Omni VII will switch back to being the main receiver. With the RX340 as the main receiver, the "DUAL" button is inoperative. If you have the RSOK button turned off, (not highlited), then switching out of the ham band will not make the RX340 the main receiver. Also, there is a slider with a lower case "rf" label. This slider controls the RF gain for the RX340 when the Omni VII is the primary slider. "Elecraft K2" - This check box defines the K2 to be used as the sub-receiver, and the Pegasus/Jupiter or primary K2 receiver to be used as the main receiver. When two K2's are used in this setup, the frequency exported to a logging program will be the frequency of the last K2 to transmit if the DUAL button is on. If the last K2 to transmit was the second K2, this frequency will remain valid until the DUAL button is turned off. This is very useful for SO2R operation. When the "DUAL" button is on, the second K2 main VFO will follow VFO B in the program. With the "DUAL" button off, the 2nd K2 will not be considered as being used. "RX331/RX340 BAUD Rate" - This list box only appears if you are using the RX331/RX340 version. This list box defines the baud rate to be used to communicate with the RX331/RX340. All changes to the above check boxes require a program restart before they go into effect. The listbox on this window defines the comport number used as the second radio port. Special Right Click on the Filter Bandwidth Window If you right click on the right side of the filter bandwidth window, you will go to the next narrower filter. If you right click on the left side of the filter bandwidth window, you will go to the next wider filter. In this way, you can get access to all filters without having to configure them into a filter button. This is useful for SSB reception with heavy QRM to select the optimum filter. SWR Protection for the Pegasus There are two edit boxes in the Transmitter window for SWR protection for the Pegasus. The Jupiter has built in over current protection in the final circuitry but the pegasus does not. The two edit boxes are: "MAX SWR for Full Power" - Set this to the maximum SWR that you expect to normally have. I set this to 2.5. The trip point is actually derived by computing the reflected power at this SWR with 100 watts forward power.. The trip point is then just when this level of reflected power is reached. "HI SWR Power Reduction" - Set this to the power you want the pegasus reduced to when the "MAX SWR for full power" value is exceeded. I set this to 50 watts. If you do not wish to use this, set the "HI SWR Power Reduction" value to 100 watts. Frequency Event Timer This option is selected with a check box in "Preferences3". This feature allows you to define frequency events and have the radio go to those frequencies when the time for the event occurs. This is very useful for unattended operation with a receiving radio on the internet. The frequency events are defined in a special file called "events.txt". This file is created the first time you turn this option on with its check box. The file is located in the c:\n4py folder or wherever you have the program installed. Once you have turned on the option the first time, exit the program, and edit the "events.txt" file to create frequency events. Do not edit the file with the program running. The file is column sensitive. Each time must be 2 numeric characters followed by a colon, followed by 2 numeric characters. There should then be one space followed by a frequency expressed in megahertz. The events are defined by the day of the week. There can be up to 24 events for each day of the week. The file has a section for each day of the week and 24 events for each day. You should carefully edit the default lines with the values you want. All the default lines have a time of 00:00 and a frequency of 00.000. These times are in the local time of your computer and not in UTC. The times must be in 24 hour time with a range from 00:00 to 23:59. When program finds a match with the day of the week, hour, and minute, the program will change to the indicated frequency and set the corresponding default mode and filter. If you put in an event with a frequency of 99.000, the program will exit. This is useful if you want the program to exit at a prescribed time. Internal Tuner (Pegasus) Setting the "Enable Intrnl Tuner" check box in the "Transmitter" window of the "settings" menu will cause the pegasus internal tuner controls to appear at the lower left side of the radio panel. There are 5 buttons. They are: 1) "Auto Tnr" - Left clicking this button will cause the internal tuner to go into auto tune mode. When the SWR stabilizes or 8 seconds go by, it will automatically stop. 2) "Bypass" - Left clicking this button will put the internal tuner into bypass mode, thus removing it from the output circuit. 3) "Cap" - Left clicking this button will tweak the capacitor setting of the tuner "down" in value. Right clicking this button will tweak the capacitor setting "up" in value. 4) "Ind" - Left clicking this button will tweak the inductor setting of the tuner "down" in value. Right clicking this button will tweak the inductor setting "up" in value. 5) "HiZ" - Left clicking this button will cause to internal tuner to go to its "Lo Z" or low impedance setting. Left clicking again will cause the tuner to go to its "Hi Z" or high impedance setting. The descriptor on the button indicates the current impedance setting of the tuner. There is also a slider in the "transmitter window" of the settings window. This slider is labelled "Tuner Pwr" and controls the amount of power used when the internal tuner is tuning. The range is 10 to 50 watts. Please note that you must have purchased the pegasus internal tuner from Ten-Tec for this to work. Internal Tuner (Omni VII) Setting the "Enable Intrnl Tuner" check box in the "Transmitter" window of the "settings" menu will cause the Omni VII internal tuner controls to appear at the lower left side of the radio panel. There are 2 buttons. They are: 1) "Auto Tnr" - Left clicking this button will cause the internal tuner to go into auto tune mode. When the SWR stabilizes or 12 seconds go by, it will automatically stop. While tuning, the button will remain blue and be inoperative. When tuning completes, it will turn black if the tuning was successful, and red if the tuning failed. 2) "Bypass" - Left clicking this button will put the internal tuner into bypass mode, thus removing it from the output circuit. This button cannot be clicked while an "Auto Tnr" is in progress. Please note that you must have purchased an Omni VII with the internal tuner from Ten-Tec for this to work. LDG Electronics PT-11 Plus Internal Memory Tuner for the Pegasus Setting the "Enable Mem Tuner" check box in the "Transmitter" window of the "settings" menu will cause the pegasus internal memory tuner controls to appear at the lower left side of the radio panel. There are 7 buttons. They are: 1) "Auto Tnr" - Left clicking this button will cause the internal memory tuner to go into auto tune mode. When the SWR stabilzes or 8 seconds go by, it will automatically stop. When it completes, the store memory routine will automatically run to save the current settings for the particular memory range you are in. 2) "Bypass" - Left clicking this button will put the internal memory tuner into bypass mode, thus removing it from the output circuit. 3) "Cap" - Left clicking this button will tweak the capacitor setting of the tuner "down" in value. Right clicking this button will tweak the capacitor setting "up" in value. 4) "Ind" - Left clicking this button will tweak the inductor setting of the tuner "down" in value. Right clicking this button will tweak the inductor setting "up" in value. 5) "HiZ" - Left clicking this button will cause to internal tuner to go to its "Lo Z" or low impedance setting. Left clicking again will cause the tuner to go to its "Hi Z" or high impedance setting. The descriptor on the button indicates the current impedance setting of the tuner. 6) "Sto" - Left clicking this button will cause to internal memory tuner to save its current settings for this frequency to memory. It is only necessary to use this button if the "touch up" cap and ind buttons have been used. 7) "Rcl Tnr" - Left clicking this button will cause the internal memory tuner to recall the last settings for this frequency from the tuner's memory. If the SWR is greater than 2.0, the "Auto Tnr" procedure will automatically be started to try and find a better match. There are memories in the PT-11 plus for saving settings. I use an algorithm based on frequency to determine the frequency range for memory. The frequency range for each memory is the following size according to the band in use: Band Memory Width in kHz 160 10 80 20 40 40 30 50 20 50 17 50 15 50 12 50 10 50 This means that the first memory for 14.0 will cover 14.0 to 14.050. So, if your band settings are saved for this range, they will not be saved for 14.050 to 14.100, the second range for this band. There is also a slider in the "transmitter window" of the settings window. This slider is labelled "Tuner Pwr" and controls the amount of power used when the internal tuner is tuning. The range is 10 to 50 watts. There is a button called "Setup Tuner Memory". This button allows you to automatically setup all the tuner memories for the band you are currently tuned to. So, for example, if you are currently tuned to 14.230 Mhz and you click this button, it will automatically go through auto tune steps at 14.025, 14.075, 14.125, 14.175, 14.225, 14.275, and 14.325 which is the center frequency of each tuner memory for the 20 meter band. Note that the 10 meter FM band is a separate band for this purpose and will not be setup when 10 CW or 10 SSB is selected. Also note that the tuner setup function will respect your license class you have defined and only transmit where your license class allows. Please note that you must have purchased the LDG PT-11 Plus pegasus internal memory tuner from LDG Electronics for this to work. LDG Electronics AT-200PC Autotuner Setting the "Enable AT-200PC" check box in the "Transmitter" window of the "settings" menu will cause the memory tuner controls to appear at the lower left side of the radio panel. You must also set the correct comport for the AT-200PC. When using the Jupiter with the AT-200PC, you must be in pegasus emulation mode. The Jupiter cannot be keyed from the program while in front panel mode. The LDG AT-200PC must be at firmware version 1.9 or later for correct operation. See the LDG website for how to upgrade your tuner to this version. When using this tuner, the program will remember the tuner antenna settings by band. In addition, when changing bands with the program band buttons, the last tuner setting for that band will be recalled automatically without transmitting. If for some reason, it is ever necessary to clear out the EEPROM in the LDG tuner, the "Clear Mem" button in the "Transmitter" section of the settings menu can be used for this purpose. This will clear out all tuner memories. This is necessary if you have changed antennas and want to setup new tuner memories. Also, it is recommended that you perform an "Auto Tnr" on each band you will operate. For bands 7 mhz and up, you should do one "Auto Tnr" in the CW portion and another one in the SSB portion