[RTTY] RTTY Software

[Tyler Stewart]

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 K3MM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Turner" <dezrat1242 at ispwest.com>
To: <ws7i at ewarg.org>; "Andrew J. O'Brien" <obrienaj at netsync.net>; 
<rtty at contesting.com>
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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