[RTTY] RITTY vs. MMTTY

[Grant Bright]

Hello Rtty People,

It was lovely to hear so MANY RTTY signals from 80m to 10m!

The CQ WW contest was good from Georgia to EU, and SA. I 
never heard anyone from the middle east or Asia. Even 80 
meters was nice to EU Saturday night.

In reading the problem with DX copying the abbreviations, I 
wish I had thought to spell out G E O R G I A. That will "on 
my list for next year."

Many stations transmissions would just end after the 
zone...no k, bk, or call sign... . That makes it hard on the 
weaker stations to know just when the tranmission is over.

I have used RITTY (v.4.53) and an ST8000 since 2002. I keep 
a computer that has an ISA slot just so I can run RITTY. I 
run two rtty windows in Writelog, so I can see the print 
between the two. RITTY catches a word now and then that the 
Hal misses.

When I have tried to run MMTTY and the ST8000, MMTTY seldom 
catches any word the ST8000 misses.

But there is a new version of MMTY called MMVARI. The copy 
is much improved, seems crisp, fast, and accurate. I will be 
looking more at MMVARI which also does additional modes--and 
there is an "engine only version."

It is available on the same site 
http://mmhamsoft.amateur-radio.ca/ as all the other swell 
programs by JE3HHT

73s to all,

Grant
W4OJC