[RTTY] RTTY Software

Mon Jul 4 12:31:38 EDT 2005

Hi Tony

I have travelled  the path you are proposing.  The road was much bumpier
than I expected however.

The Soyo board does not boot with Prescott P4s. I thought (mistakenly) than
a P4 with non-800Mhz front side bus would work but it does not. Be triple
sure that whatever P4 you install is not Prescott. Soyo's web site will give
you more information on knowing a Prescott when you see one.

The other thing is that I find the board to be a bit finnicky. I have
installed a dual-boot setup, win98se for contests and win2K for everything
else. Since I only boot the win98 occasionally, I find that it always
doesn't boot up when I try it. I then boot into safe mode and try to figure
out what broke between now and the last time. Its hard to believe it can
stop working when it hasn't been booted but it is my experience.

I am happy with the setup but knowing what I know now, I would probably have
not done it. Again, a lot of it was due to confusing compatible P4s so
hopefully you can understand before you buy a P4 as opposed to after (as I
foolishly did it!)

73 de Neal 

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Tony (N2KI)
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 1:37 PM
To: 'RTTY'
Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY Software

One quick addendum to my last post.  The biggest limiting factor of keeping
RITTY a functional asset is the slow but sure elimination of the ISA slot
which is a requirement of the CT2960 sound card and similar.  You can still
get the SY-P4I 845PE ISA mother board and run Win98 as an OS.  Rather than
worrying about keeping alive the older 486, Pentium I, etc.  Slowly I am
convincing myself of picking up the SY-P4I 845PE ISA and putting a system
together that will be fast enough to run Writelog as SO2R, yet still capable
of utilizing the older CT2960 soundcard to run RITTY for SO1R.  The only
question that stands out at the moment is how fast a processor will RITTY be
able to handle?  Does anyone think it will run on a 1gHz P3 or faster?
Comments?

Tony - N2KI
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty- 
> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of ws7i
> Sent: July 04, 2005 09:18
> To: rtty at contesting.com; Tyler Stewart
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY Software
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Tyler Stewart" <k3mm at comcast.net>
> 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" <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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