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Re: [RTTY] getting started

To: Tad Danley <tdanley@suddenlink.net>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] getting started
From: Jerry Flanders <jeflanders@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:15:29 -0400
List-post: <mailto:rtty@contesting.com>
At 07:42 PM 6/3/2007, you wrote:
>After many years - and one false start - I would like to get back into
>rtty contesting.  I have started to look around at the AA5AU and
>rttycontesting web sites and have a couple of questions before I go on.
>I'll be running an IC-756Pro2, with a microKEYER and WriteLog on an xp
>machine.  I want to run FSK.
>
>To get started, should I run the rtty program that comes with WriteLog,
>or use MMTTY instead?

Try them both. No cost. I actually run both of them simultaneously, 
one under the "clone - receive only" tab. Sometimes one copies better 
than the other.


>For 'sound card FSK' mode I assume the rig sends the rx audio to the pc
>sound card and terminal software for decoding via the microKEYER, and
>the terminal software sends FSK commands to the rig via the microKEYER
>for transmitting.  Do I understand that correctly?

Sounds right.


>  Also, I think the
>Pro2 should be in RTTY mode, right?

Right

Jerry W4UK 

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