[RTTY] FW: If you care about CW and RTTY - time is of theessence

[Ron Kolarik]

Be very careful with Sorcerer, it's a cracked commercial product and not 
always malware
free. It will decode callsigns of P2-3 but the message remains hidden. I 
think one of the
Hoka products works on P3 but the price is more than an SCS modem. I 
don't have either,
had a borrowed P3 modem when I was chasing something, caught but no 
official response to
the complaint.

Ron K0IDT


On 8/16/2016 2:42 PM, Michael Adams wrote:
> Pactor 3 and 4 use Pactor 1 for the initial call; moving to faster waveforms once the modems negotiate capabilities, etc.  If you catch the initial call, you should be able to decode it using free software....although luck, practice working with recordings, and/or obsessive watching and waiting might be required to make that happen.
>
> Winlink Express' Pactor module has the capability to identify in Pactor 1 FEC (freely decodable) at the end of a connection, but it is a user-selectable option.  The practice is discouraged in some non-amateur uses of Winlink, and I wouldn't be surprised if most amateur users don't bother to check the box.
>
> I understand that there is one hobbyist program out there that claims to be able to decode Pactor 3 (Sorcerer; haven't tried it, and don't know much more beyond that it exists)
>