[RTTY] Some basic RTTY radio questions

[Jeff AC0C]

Michael,

Sounds good!  3Khz or 6Khz setting is about the same on the 950.   And try 
to use as little preamp as you can manage.  If signals on the bands are weak 
anyway, then it's not much problem anyway.

73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Michael Rapp
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2016 9:26 PM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] Some basic RTTY radio questions

Hi all,

Was going over my NAQP notes this weekend.  I have two basic RTTY
radio configuration questions.

My Yaesu FT-950 has two pre-amp settings.  On phone I typically only
engage these on the quieter bands.  I'd use preamp 1 occasionally on
20 meters, and nearly always on 15 and preamp 2 (which amplified more)
always on 10.  On RTTY is this useful or is there something
detrimental to a RTTY decode from using a preamp?

My FT-950 also has three roofing filters settings: 3, 6, and 15 kHz.
I must confess that I really don't understand what a roofing filter
does.  My radio defaults to 3 kHz for RTTY.  Is this okay?

73,

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