[RTTY] Distortion

[Peter Laws]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Anthony W. DePrato wrote:

-> is not what it should be. I have told a few and i do try to be nice and
-> also offer any advise if they wish it. most are nice about it and thank you

One day, while reading the mail on 20 m, I heard MS-Windows sounds and
thought it was my MS-Windows laptop ... until I heard a synthesised DX
spot.  The audio was coming over the radio!

I realized that it was one of the ops in the QSO.  I broke in and let him
know what was happening and he gratefully acknowledged me and shut off the
sounds.  A good lesson in the perils of AFSK operation under MS-Windows!

I've since switched to FSK myself, so this is no longer a danger, though I
still keep the audio off.

I like the suggestion of using QSD as a convention to let other ops know
that their RTTY "signals are mutilated" and will try to do so myself.


-- 
73,
Peter Laws
N5UWY/9
WAC (phone)
WAS #51466 (SSB)
Looking for MT on RTTY