The "RTTY" DXCC has long accepted confirmations using any digital mode even though the certificate has been printed "RTTY." My certificate(s) from a couple years ago say "RTTY" even though there are
Until recently SSTV was not digital - it was strictly analog! Even today, most SSTV signals are analog (continuously varying tone) not digital (discrete frequencies representing specific hue, satura
While I also mourn the loss of the "RTTY" DXCC, it is a change that is inevitable. Even the "SSB" DXCC is not "SSB" DXCC - it is "Phone" DXCC (check your certificates if you have one and look at the
No, Mike ... it is the equivalent of AM being changed to Phone. ... and it's already that way. Remember, "Phone" includes AM, SSB. FM, SSTV, DV and FSTV. 73, ... Joe, W4TV ___________________________
No, none of the image modes (SSTV, FSTV) are voice at all ... yet they're still considered "phone." 73, ... Joe, W4TV _______________________________________________ RTTY mailing list RTTY@contestin
Separate Digital (all digital modes except RTTY) and RTTY DXCC will never fly with the DXAC, Awards Committee and the Board of Directors. There is no way to verify which digital mode/encoding was use
Or as Shakespeare penned ... Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) It's time to put all of this behind us ... ARRL have decided to change the name of RTTY DXCC to Digital DXCC to more properly reflect the t
It's also the cost of maintaining an additional set of records, annual listings, developing and maintaining an "Honor Roll" for each sub-mode, etc. Unlike WAS, DXCC is not "just" the initial 100 ent
While this is encouraging, it is still well short of approximately 25% of QSOs that I would expect for an expedition that treated RTTY as an equal to CW and Phone modes. As it is, 45% of ST0R's QSOs
The "skimmer like" techniques are there already .... see the video from CE0Y/I2DMI - http://www.mdxc.org/ce0yi2dmi/ using microKEYER II with N1MM Logger/MMVARI in "DXpedition mode" for Windows or the
Renaming RTTY DXCC to "Digital" DXCC does not imply that RTTY is not a legitimate mode - nor does it mean that ARRL need abandon RTTY as a contest mode. RTTY has - an will continue to be - the only
If one will read Minute 29 from the complete minutes of the ARRL Board Meeting: <http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Board%20Meetings/2011%20Second%20MeetingMinutes%281%29.pdf>, page 9, one
All versions of MMVARI support multiple receive channels. Version 0.45 expanded the number of available (View | Subchannels) from four to eight in the stand-alone (end user) version of MMVARI and to
No, the stand alone version already supports multiple channel viewing (up to 8 channels). MMVARI.OCX provides the ability for programmers to get more channels in their own software. 73, ... Joe, W4TV
What transceiver are you using and do you have MMTTY configured for hardware PTT (RTS on the FSK port) or software (Radio Control) PTT on the CAT port? Are you using AFSK or FSK? Have you reviewed th
The USB to serial converter will work for FSK but *only* with MMTTY or the "software generated FSK" in Writelog. "Modern" USB to serial converters generally support 300 bps to 3 mbps instead of ~20 b
That depends on whether you also require a CAT/CI-V interface to the transceiver, a sound card for decoding RTTY, and are willing to settle for FSK only (ignoring any digital mode except FSK RTTY). I
All of which ignores radio control (CAT, software PTT), any means of receiving (sound card), support for FSK with fldigi (pseudo-FSK), support for CW with fldigi (q-CW), or even the basic UART funct
1) too many people do not know how to build and adjust a *clean* AFSK interface. They overdrive the mic preamp in the rig and generate multiple "ghost" signals up/down the band. They connect the AFSK
Depending on the design they are using different approaches ... some are generating audio tones (at a fixed level relative to the carrier oscillator into the balanced modulator), some are directly s