[RTTY] wf1b info

[Robert Chudek - K0RC]

Hello Joe...

The RTTY by WF1B software was one of the original contest packages 
developed for the serious digital contester. It provided many features 
seen in more recent contest loggers although it ran on the DOS operating 
system. It was the premier logger in its day but it was never rewritten 
for the Windows platform (or any other platform).

It can be run in a DOS box using Windows XP, but be aware this might not 
be a stable platform. Among the issues are the direct calls to the COM 
ports. In addition, it requires an external TNC (rtty demodulator) 
instead of the modern soundcard based demodulators. I think there was an 
issue of timing errors when used with fast CPUs (500 MHz and above).

All said, if you are just starting out and have no nostalgic reason to 
choose this particular contest logger, your time will be better spent 
getting a free copy of MMTTY or MMVARI and one of the contest loggers 
that integrate this engine (N1MM Logger, WriteLog, etc.). The 
performance of these soundcard based RTTY engines will outperform the 
majority of the older TNCs.

In addition, these Windows based loggers will support all the new 
contests (and DXCC prefixes) that have been introduced since the RTTY by 
WF1B era.

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
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On 9/11/2011 10:45 AM, 9jof.pa at libero.it wrote:
> Hi,
> Can you tell me abt a soft for to run WF1B  into new computers with Xp..
> etc..??
> many thanks in advance&  73 de Joe
> it9jof
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