[RTTY] RITTY vs. MMTTY

[Scott Schultz]

I noticed the same differences by using the built-in RTTY decoder on my 
756Pro. As good as MMTTY is, the Pro's decoder sometimes did a better job of 
picking up some of the data, especially callsigns. Too bad I can't "cut and 
paste" from the rig to N1MM!

Scott N0IU

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Muns" <w0yk at msn.com>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 1:00 PM
Subject: [RTTY] RITTY vs. MMTTY


> At HC8N last weekend W6OTC and I did some minimal subjective comparison of
> RITTY and MMTTY simultaneously on the same signal.  Most of the time, as
> expected, both decoders worked fine.  On rare occasions, one would decode
> while the other didn't.  In our limited evaluation (we were "distracted"
> working the contest and not focused on decoder comparisons), it seemed 
> that
> RITTY would decode signals buried in noise when MMTTY failed.  OTOH, MMTTY
> decoded some instances where RITTY did not and those seemed to be large
> signal situations.  All very subjective and anecdotal, but interesting for
> us to not see a clear overall advantage between the two decoders. 
> Probably
> the biggest take away is re-confirmation of the value of running multiple
> parallel decoders to get that last bit of reliable decoding across 
> thousands
> of contacts.
>
> 73,
> Ed - W0YK
>
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