When I actually turn on the ham radio, it is a good bet I’ll be using a digital mode. I do try to do CW sometimes although the noise level in the house makes that hard unless I’m alone. I’d been a RTTY operator for many years, and when I discovered PSK-31 back when it first started, I actually wrote PSKGNR (a front end for the only available PSK31 program at the time). So I was a little spoiled — if I wanted a feature, I just added it to my program.

Of course, time marched on and other programs came out that far surpassed PSKGNR. I wound up using WinWarbler for the most part when I take a spell of operating. However, I recently fired the rig back up and decided to try some of the new software. I downloaded Ham Radio Deluxe which is a nice rig control/log/spot program. If you get the beta version, it includes DM780 which is an excellent PSK, RTTY, CW, Olivia, MT63, MFSK, THROB, and SSTV program (and probably some other modes I’ve forgotten).

Works great and the integration with Ham Radio Deluxe is great. I run two screens with one program on each screen (see the picture).

If you try it and you don’t like it at first, give it some time and adjust what you don’t like. For example, I didn’t like that the transmit buffer didn’t erase after you sent text. You can change that. I didn’t like the way sent text showed up. You can change that. I also set the two programs to use the same log database which is not the default.

Just be sure to get the beta “kit”. As of this writing the regular download has a PSK-31 program but not DM780.