[RTTY] RTTY article in NCJ in past year or so

[Tim Shoppa]

Thank you Ken! That indeed was the article.

As one of my bosses told me decades ago, "Tim, if you don't know how to do
it, you don't know how to do it with a computer."

I think ZS6EZ's methods could someday be done by computer but for right now
I'm going to try to take advantage of them by doing them myself :-). I'm
pretty good right now at knowing "oh the shift must have gotten lost
somewhere". ZS6EZ's working knowledge of single-bit-error-syndromes and
deep recall of common RTTY callsigns is something that I'm only barely
learning how to do at this point. (It helps that I am getting pretty good
at SCP and partial callsigns).

What I find interesting is how useful it is to me, to listen intently to
the RTTY signals as I have multiple decoder windows open along with
waterfall and X-Y scope. (Well, modern software equivalent of X-Y scope).
If there was a static crash I can know to suspect the computer's decoding
at that point and find a fill from a different time point. It turns out to
be quite engaging.

Tim N3QE


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:28 PM, <Ktfrog007 at aol.com> wrote:

>  NCJ Vol 40 Num 2 March/April 2012
>
> Some Software Suggestions for RTTY Contest Software Developers by Chris
> Burger ZS6EZ
>
> 73,
> Ken, AB1J
>
>  In a message dated 5/12/2014 15:58:53 Coordinated Universal Time,
> tshoppa at gmail.com writes:
>
> There was a very good article in NCJ in the past year or two, by I think a
> RTTY contester from South Africa, about how he uses his brain to enhance
> RTTY decoding in contest or adverse DX conditions. I could be wrong and
> this appeared not in NCJ but some other journal.
>
> If any of this rings a bell, can you remind me which issue this was in?
>
> Also as long as NCJ is on my mind, I just got a nice E-mail linking to my
> certificates for past half decade of NAQP CW and RTTY entries. Thanks to
> NCJ for these fine contests!
>
> Tim N3QE
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