[RTTY] Software

[Kostas SV1DPI]

I believe that Mako, who made the mmtty and made it free, must be honnored 
from the ham community. The same applies to other guys as aa6yq or n1mm 
team. It is my surprise that these guys never been proposed to several Hall 
of fames. Do you think they don't deserve it?
Kostas sv1dpi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "FireBrick" <w9ol at billnjudy.com>
To: "Kok Chen" <chen at mac.com>; "RTTY Reflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Software


> It sure made it possible (read: easy) for me to get into rtty.
> I also enjoyed meeting him at Dayton.
>
> Can't remember, at the dinner did Ray win a copy of Writelog or was it Ron
> won a copy of WF1B?
>
> I do remember it was funny!
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kok Chen" <chen at mac.com>
> To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Software
>
>
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2009, at 1/28    8:49 AM, rick darwicki wrote:
>>
>>> I have a shoebox full of purchased software that is no longer
>>> supported. I paid anywhere from $30-$100 for a lot of programs that
>>> became useless as Windows and hardware changed and the makers no
>>> longer supplied updates. I don't have a warm fuzzy feeling about
>>> MixW at this point.
>>
>> I have not owned a "PC" for quite a while now, and have never been
>> able to run RITTY or WF1B.
>>
>> However, I appreciated WF1B's effort so much, I purchased a copy of
>> it just as a show of support even though I knew I could never run
>> it.  The floppy and documentation remained until it was tossed
>> together with many things during a QTH move.
>>
>> IMHO, WF1B was singularly responsible for bringing RTTY contesting
>> from the Gutenberg age into the 20th century.
>>
>> 73
>> Chen, W7AY
>>
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