[RTTY] Software for RTTY contesting?

[w1hkj]

On 02/13/2013 08:07 AM, John Merrill wrote:
> For RTTY contesting N1MM(free) is the way to go for a PC. For the Mac there
> is RUMped. RUMped is a little tricky to set up. The author's documentation
> is way behind the current version (he is a busy person) and it's not quite
> as good as N1MM.
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> 73, John N1JM
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> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Keith Maton <g6nhu at me.com> wrote:
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>> I've been a RTTY operator on and off for many years, in the 1980s I used a
>> Creed 444 teleprinter, progressed onto an Acorn Atom computer and I'm now
>> using fldigi on an iMac.  Fldigi works very well, I've put together a good
>> set of contest macros and I've used it with success over the last couple of
>> years but I now feel I've outgrown it.
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>> My requirements are (I hope) quite straightforward.  I'd like to be able
>> to operate the majority of RTTY contests (it would be nice to be able to do
>> PSK31/63 as well), including ones such as BARTG HF RTTY where part of the
>> exchange is the current time.  I'd like a real time display of statistics
>> showing mults worked, current score etc and I'd like DXCluster integration
>> so that I can find multipliers and hopefully QSY direct to them, work them
>> and switch back to my run frequency afterwards.  At the moment I'm
>> operating almost exclusively by running and that's clearly detrimental to
>> my final score.
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>> My computer is an iMac but I will set up a dedicated XP or Windows 7
>> virtual machine just for this.  My radio is a Kenwood TS-590 and I have
>> just a single USB cable between the rig and the computer.  Everything goes
>> down that USB cable, both CAT and the built in sound card on the 590.
fldigi and flrig run on both the G4 and Intel OS X machines

You will find the TS590S fully supported by flrig.  fldigi can operate 
on a large range of digital modes including RTTY.

You can also run both of those programs on a Windows machine (including 
XP, Vista, Win7, Win8) if you prefer.

http://www.w1hkj.com/

73, Dave, W1HKJ