[RTTY] Post Roundup comments

[Jeff Blaine]

RTTY contesting is growing like crazy.  And with the sunspot cycle picking up (at it's snail's pace), tight bands are going to be 
the constant environment going forward...

The rig's filtering is commonly used when it's arguable that the better choice is to use tight filters on the software.  I think 
Chen has mentioned that with the typical sound card, roughly an 80 db SNR range can be accommodated by the typical PC sound card 
now.  And by letting the RTTY software take care of the filtering instead of the rig, the receiving is more optimal.  And depending 
on the specific filter, a tight crystal filter can actually reduce the ability to recover signals by the software because of 
distortions introduced by the filter.  You don't have the same problems with the software filter in MMTTY and the others...

I suspect the reason that using the rig's filtering as primary instead of a wideband and then letting the software do the filtering 
is because guys tune by ear - instead of by waterfall or scope.  And not having a rig-based filter when tuning by ear makes doing 
that quickly quite tough if the software skirts are steep.

73, Jeff ACØC
www.ac0c.com

-----Original Message----- 
From: NQ4S
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:34 AM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Post Roundup comments

Those of us without a narrow filter (minimum 400 Hz on my TS-2000)
appreciate every bit of spread between signals.  Far too many times I'd be
trying to work one signal when another would come up less than 100Hz away
and drown it out.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Mark n2qt <n2qt at verizon.net> wrote:

> It was great seeing people spread out on 40!  Hopefully we will all
> remember
> this (and the other suggestions Tom makes)  for the upcoming contests.
>
> Mark n2qt
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: KE1JF-Tom
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 8:56 AM
> To: RTTY at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Post Roundup comments
>
> I noticed much more activity up high in the 40 meter band almost to where
> we
> stop at 7125. It was great to have everyone spread out & not all squeezed
> down lower as normally is the case & hope this continues even without a CW
> contest going on.
>
> 80 was tough with the band being very noisy as it got later but I did
> manage
> more than normal.
>
> I noticed the same with some not ending with QRZ or at least CQ so it
> slowed
> things down as I had to watch a few QSO's to figure out who was working the
> Freq.,
>
> 73,
> Tom, KE1JF
>
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