[RTTY] Best RTTY program/hardware

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> Who Won? Is anybody going to engineer, design and build a 
> "new" RTTY Modem for us
> 
> This looks like a job for Microham ... Joe?

As mentioned elsewhere, hardware designs are simply too inflexible 
and too costly.  Anyone can throw together some code for a sound 
card and release it for free.  Unfortunately, that makes doing a 
RTTY modem a losing proposition for a company like microHAM. 

To do a top notch job requires someone with a detailed knowledge 
of DSP, data coding, modulation and HF propagation characteristics. 
Even then it would take many man-months and probably be something 
that would be pirated as soon as the first copy was sold. 

It is a shame that Chen's code is not available on the Windows 
platform ... I'd like to link it to Dave's outstanding logging 
software <G>. 

> But if Microham would build a Harware RTTY Modem (a good one) 
> I would buy it.

Both Chen's cocoaModem and Dave's DXLab Suite run very well with 
microHAM's hardware <G>. 

73, 

   ... Joe, W4TV 
   


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve Hunt, W1CDX
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:11 AM
> To: rtty at contesting.com
> Subject: [RTTY] Best RTTY program/hardware
> 
> 
> very Interesting thread... but it suddenly stopped
> 
> Who Won? Is anybody going to engineer, design and build a 
> "new" RTTY Modem for us
> 
> This looks like a job for Microham ... Joe?
> 
> I too am suspect of all the Soundcard decoders, we all use 
> ... for not beeing up to par to a good Hardware solution ... 
> But Hardware wise ... there is nothing out there.
> 
> maybe if I had a good Hardware RTTY decoder, I could save 
> myself some time building out my Receive-Antenna, which I 
> have to takle this summer and many Q? will follow.
> 
> Anyway, nice thoughts and I too will try the EU1 profile that 
> Dave uploaded to his DXLabs Site.
> 
> But if Microham would build a Harware RTTY Modem (a good one) 
> I would buy it.
> 
> 73 all
> Steve, W1CDX
>