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Moe Wheatley AE4JY <ae4jy@mindspring.com>  www.mindspring.com/~ae4jy
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Revision history:
ver. 0.1	initial beta release 12-16-99
ver. 0.2	12-17-99 Fixed CWID problem
ver. 0.3	12-19-99 Fixed Font save problem, changed settings.dat method
				made macro titles longer, limit text to 256
ver. 0.4	12-20-99 Fixed accent text, modified macros, added 'start'keyword

ver. 1.0	12-30-99 Initial non-beta release
		Bug fixes:
			Fixed Missing characters at end of TX
			Made AFC smoother
			Fixed screen maximize restoration problem
			Fixed UTC date problem
			Fixed problem if Tune button was double clicked
			Changed CW ID spacing
			Fixed display zoom problems
			Fixed(by removing) the memory resource display problem.
			Fixed problem of version number in registry key
		Functional Changes:
			Changed FFT size to 2048 making updates faster(.37 Sec)
			Zoom limit reduced to 10
			Removed useless signal views(3D,I/Q,eye,large vector)
			Rewrote waterfall display for 10x speedup, made color, and bigger
			Changed test mode to demo mode and added fast option
			Added option to turn off tx text echoing in rx window
			Removed QPSK lsb mode box and moved lsb select into setup
			Increased macro text size to 2K
			Placed Macro title text on button and made button larger
			Changed UTC time/date format
			Added means to measure and adjust soundcard clock frequency
			Added an input overload message to spectral displays
			Added CPU too slow message in signal displays
ver. 1.1	1-23-00 maintenance release
		Bug fixes:
			Fixed FFT amplitude scaling problem
			Fixed Fast DemoMode CPU use bug
			Fixed "About Box" text problem
		Functional Changes:
			Added Narrow AFC mode after Transmit to reduce freq drift
			Added Setup links to Window's Mixer audio level control
			Changed CW ID speed/spacing
			Added Local Time option
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PSK31 is an amateur radio communications mode introduced by Peter Martinez, G3PLX, that uses phase modulation and special character coding.  It allows robust narrow bandwidth keyboard Chat type communications between two or more stations.  

WinPSK evolved as a result of experimenting with methods to develop and program various DSP communications algorithms using a standard Windows based PC platform.  WinPSK went from basically a DSP test bed to a simple functioning program for PSK31.

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                           Program Installation
The program consists of a single executable file WinPSK.exe.  This file can be placed anywhere but is probably best to create a new folder(directory) for it say at C:\WinPSK\.  
If online help is desired then you also need the file WinPSK.hlp  and  WinPSK.cnt to also be in the same directory.  

Once the program has been run once, it creates a file, settings.dat on the same directory that stores the current user program settings each time the program exits.  Windows will create a few other files if Help is used.

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                            Program Removal
To remove this program, just delete all the files in the folder where WinPSK.exe resides.

Purists may also want to run Regedit and look in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software folder for a registry key called AE4JY Software, select it and hit delete and your system should no longer have any knowledge of WinPSK.   Leaving this key may eat up a few bytes of disk space but will not affect any other programs.  If you look at the list of programs in this folder you will probably find remnants of all sorts of old programs.

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                        System Requirements:

133MHz Pentium ( may work on 486 but MUST have floating point processor)
Windows 95/98/NT ( is a 32 bit Windows application )
A soundcard that is supported by Windows.

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This program is released in the public domain with no support or warranty
of any kind.
            
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