[RTTY] Query

[Bill, W6WRT]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:23:13 -0400, "allan1 dejazzd.com"
<allan1 at dejazzd.com> wrote:

>Anyone have experience using it?  Any info would be greatly appreciated

REPLY:

It is not likely you can obtain a copy, but you can try. The author is
Brian Beezley, K6STI. He became outraged (rightfully so) at some
piracy which was done back in the '90s and quit ham radio. Brian is a
brilliant programmer and his loss to ham radio is immense. he is the
author of Yagi Optimizer and a number of other programs which are all
marvels of simplicity and effectiveness. 

I own a copy of RiTTY and have compared it side by side to many other
TNCs and software programs. It outperformed all of them except for the
HAL ST-8000, where I would call it a tie. 

RiTTY originally sold for $150, the amount I paid, and later the price
was dropped to $100 before being pulled off the market entirely.

RiTTY requires a true DOS machine, which Windows 98 is the last
version thereof, and works with only a very few specific SoundBlaster
16 soundcards and they must be run on an ISA bus. The PCI bus common
on today's computers will not work. If you can obtain a copy of RiTTY
and cobble together such a computer, you will be very impressed with
its performance. The entire program is only 56 kB in size, another
source of amazement.

I have RiTTY running on a second computer with the monitor next to my
primary station monitor. When MMTTY misses a character or two I can
glance over at RiTTY and more often than not, RiTTY has it.

73, Bill W6WRT