[RTTY] Anyone Have a DXP38 For Sale?

Bill, W6WRT dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 30 00:40:27 PDT 2010


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On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:34:50 -0700, Dick Flanagan K7VC <dick at k7vc.com>
wrote:

>Is there a widely accepted best hardware RTTY decoder?  (Computer 
>software and radio left out of the equation for the moment)?

REPLY:

The best hardware decoder I ever used personally was the HAL ST-8000.
I have also used the DXP-38, the KAM (not the pro version) and the AEA
DSP-232. 

I ran them all side by side with identical audio feed against each
other and against the software programs MMTTY and RiTTY by K6STI.

My observation was the ST-8000 and RiTTY by K6STI were tied for best
decoding under weak signal conditions, MMTTY was next best, the DXP-38
next, the KAM next and the AEA unit a very poor last. 

The AEA DSP-232 was so poor it was pulled off the market very quickly
and disappeared into history. This is NOT the AEA PK-232, which I have
not tested and is far more popular than the DSP-232. How the PK-232
compares to the others I can't say, but a lot of people are still
using it today so it must be fairly good.

Hope this helps. 

73, Bill W6WRT
 


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