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WinTone Version 2.01
June 7th, 1997
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To Beta users
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To all of you who helped out in the Beta,
Thanks!  All bugs which were reported were
fixed, and most enhancement requests were
also made.  Without your help, we could not
have done it - Thanks!  Contact me for your
Registration Number if you have not already!



To registered users
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Anyone who has already registered a WinTone product
before June 6th is entitled to a free upgrade to 
the 2.0 product.  Please Email me for your registration
number!



Known Limitations
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*  Wintone CANNOT detect CTCSS's 67Hz  PL tone.
   The best you can do is select the next highest,
   and turn your fuzzy threshold to 1.

*  CCIR users - Wintone is limited in its ability 
   to correctly detect some transmissions which use
   FAST implementations of CCIR.  If the overall
   tone length is less than 80ms, Wintone will
   have a hard time detecting it.  For best results
   you will need to increase your sampling rate to
   22050 (But beware if you have a slow machine!).

*  WinTone will ONLY read WAV files which are 8000,
   11025, 22050 Samples/Sec and are 8 Bit Mono.  16
   bit and stereo WAV files are not supported.


IMPORTANT NOTE
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WinTone now incorporates Processor optimized Detection Methods
which are stored in DLL's in the WinTone directory.  They
are as follows :

WINTONE4.DLL    486 Optimized WinTone DLL
WINTONE5.DLL    Pentium Optimized WinTone DLL
WINTONE6.DLL    Pentium Pro Optimized WinTone DLL
WINTONEM.DLL    Pentium MMX Optimized WinTone DLL
WINTONEX.DLL    Generic/All-CPU WinTone DLL

You need to copy the correct DLL to WINTONE.DLL in order to get 
optimum performance.  For example :

To Use the 486 Optimized DLL simply type the following at a command
prompt :

COPY WINTONE4.DLL WINTONE.DLL

By Default, The Generic DLL is in use, but is slower!



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Tuning the new app!
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DONT BE DISAPPOINTED IF IT 
DOES NOT DECODE TONE OUT OF
THE BOX!

READ THE MANUAL.DOC for a COMPLETE understanding of how all
the tuning options work.


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Changes from v1.51
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* CTCSS and other Tone Squelch Support

* Using all the same settings for sample rates as 1.51 (11,025) the
  program is twice as fast (much less of a CPU Hog).  If you drop
  to 8000 Samples/Sec, it gets even better!

* Plug-In DLL Support for multiple formats.  Most cannot be used at
  the same time due to frequency conflicts.  But switching back and
  forth is very easy.  And if you want to be able to detect a new
  standard or set of tones - We can simply make a new DLL, and you
  are ready to go.

* Dual and Single tone detection Capable.

* Enhanced frequency options.  You can see a list of the frequencies
  that are being watched for, as well as see the intensity of these
  tones on the spectrum analyzer.

* Adjustible Decoding Sampling Rates - It was hard coded for 11,025 
  before, but now you can set it to 8000 (For faster, less CPU usage)

* Better WAV file support.  Versions 1.51 and older supported only
  11,025 Sample/sec 8Bit Mono WAV files.  This version still has the
  8 Bit Mono limitation, but any sampling rate is supported (This
  includes monitoring (Saving) and Playing of WAV files)

* Monitoring Improvements
  While you are monitoring to a WAV file, it now tells you how big,
  and how long (Time wise) your WAV file is, so you can keep tabs 
  on hard drive usage.

* Macros - You can now define substitution macros for the detected tones.
  For example, you can define 12345 as "Police Car #1" and 67890 as "Police 
  car #2" and if a session detects "1234567890" it will be converted to
  (Police car #1) (Police Car #2).  Great for CCIR and ZVEI - And even 
  DTMF if you happen to be using DTMF Paging.

* Improved Tuning options - Now you have a  "Bottom Threshold", which acts
  as an absolute minimum detection threshold.  This is used when you have
  a noisy transmission environment, and a (Supposedly) silent transmission 
  causes mis-detections.  This moves inversely with the standard threshold
  setting.

*   Start Recording and Start Monitoring Triggers now have
    an optional time limit parameter.  They will only record
    for so many minutes after the trigger is fired.  Great
    for paging.

*   Detection Grid now scrolls.  No more "Detection Grid is
    Full" error messages.  The grid will hold 100 entries
    then start scrolling the oldest entries off.

*   Macros can now be saved to a file, and loaded back from 
    it.  Good for exchanging Macro files between users.

*   Added an option that removes duplicate entries within
    a session based on tone spacing.  Needed for ZVEI 
    paging where every page is sent twice.

*   Made the Clear Disk log and clear detection grid different
    options.  Now you can do one without the other.

*   All Grids (Macro and Trigger) are set to a Maximum of 100
    Entries.  Raised from the original 30 and 20.  



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Feedback
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If you have suggestions, or need to report problems, contact me
at rsmerker@steaksandwich.com



