[RTTY] Best RTTY program/hardware

[Jim W7RY]

Oh please!
Jim W7RY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neal Campbell" <nealk3nc at gmail.com>
To: <lists at subich.com>
Cc: "Steve Hunt, W1CDX" <huntadmin at comcast.net>; <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Best RTTY program/hardware


>I think this is the first time I have seen the statement that "I wish
> an OS X application was available on Windows". Hopefully its the start
> of something!!
>
> Buy a mac, its inevitable!
> 73
> Neal k3nc
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV <lists at subich.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
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