[RTTY] RTTY software for Macs - DarwinPsk

[Richard Kriss]

Tom NU4G and others,

FYI, I have been beta testing DarwinPsk that is a Macintosh OSX port of
LinPsk by Volker Schroer <dl1ksv at gmx.de>.  I have been testing it on a Mac
G4-450 AGP with OSX 10.3.3 using a Kenwood TS-570D(G) with the SignaLink
SL-1+ interface. The current beta version 0.8.0.3 works great for PSK31 and
DL1KSV is working to improve the RTTY decoding.  I gave DarwinPsk a test
drive for the VOLTA RTTY contest and managed 34 RTTY QSOs with only a few
hours of part time operation.

You will find a link to download the DarwinPsk on Steve's NI5V Mac Ham Radio
web page at http://www.machamradio.com/ or direct to
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linpsk/

For normal RTTY operation I have to dummy down the Mac OSX to the Classic
mode to use the orphaned (but still very good) AEA MacRATT v2.1 software
with a PK-232MBX via a Keyspan USB to Serial adapter.  I look forward to
ditching the PK-232 as soon as I can find something that runs under OSX and
works as well as the PK-232.

Dick, AA5VU
Austin, Texas


On 5/10/04 8:55 AM, "rtty-request at contesting.com"
<rtty-request at contesting.com> wrote:

> Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 12:21:21 -0500
> From: Tom Norris <r390a at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [RTTY] RTTY software for macs?
> To: rtty at contesting.com
> Message-ID: <p06020406bcc418752b3a@[10.0.1.2]>
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> 
> I am running OSX 10.2.8 and am using Multimode version [whatever
> Chris's latest version is!] and wondered if there is anything else
> out there for RTTY with the Mac?  Lack of software almost makes
> me want to drag out the ST-6 and the model 28 again. (Doesn't
> make me want to go back to Windows though... :-)   )
> 
> tnx
> 
> Tom NU4G