Well, it also has to do with my old slow computers that I use for the station.
To be fair, I've probably never spent enough time to be comfortable with WL and
I'm not ready to buy new ham radio machines as I'm spending all my money racing
sports cars these days!
I have just about given up on paddles for CW tho...but I do still use the
parallel port! hi!
73, Ty K3MM
-------------- Original message --------------
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Tyler Stewart"
> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 22:30:12 -0400
>
> It ain't dead...I"m just hibernating!
>
> WF1B and RITTY is still mychoice for SO?R RTTY...as long as I can keep my
> old W98 computers running and you cant run Writelog strictly from a
> keyboard.
>
> I did use MMTTY and Digipan for Field Day because they are relatively easy
> to setup on a new computer, but they are both slower to use for a good
> keyboardist. I hate meeces to pieces!
>
> Ty you probably still use a key in parallel for CW contests as well :-)
> However, pray tell what do you need a mice for to run
> Writelog? I use 4 function keys and type, and I have been using Writelog for
> years and years and years.
>
> Now tell me about that key....as I ran CT in FD, they had a key all hooked up
> as
> well. I had to show they keyboard Cw! Of course being left handed and them
> having only a right hand keyer might have had something to do with it.
>
> 73 Jay
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Turner"
> To: ; "Andrew J. O'Brien" ;
>
> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY Software
>
>
> > At 09:12 AM 7/3/2005, ws7i wrote:
> >>DOS died about 10 years ago along with WF1B. Which is why RITTY is no
> >>longer much of a program for "normal" RTTY users as most are running
> >>Windows for the last 10 plus years.
> >
> > If you read contest reports carefully, you will see some folks are still
> > using RTTY by WF1B. "Dead" is a relative term, apparently. ;-)
> >
> >
> >>MMTTY is a pretty good choice.
> >
> > Agreed. MMTTY is what I use for contesting on the main computer because it
> > integrates with Windows contesting programs, not because it is the best.
> > "Pretty good" is adequate for many applications, but is not the same as
> > "best".
> >
> > Brian told me years ago that he could not get a Windows version of RITTY
> > to
> > work as well as the DOS version because he could not address the sound
> > card
> > directly and that causes some timing and/or latency issues. (I am
> > paraphrasing here; those may not be his exact words.) In his opinion,
> > Windows would never be as good as DOS for this kind of thing. Direct
> > addressing of the sound card is why RITTY has such specific hardware
> > requirements.
> >
> > That was MANY years ago however, and things could change. As far as I
> > know,
> > they haven't.
> >
> > --
> > Bill, W6WRT
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