[RTTY] Decoding troubles after taking a break

[Tim Shoppa]

ND9G writes:
> I needed to take a break for dinner, so shut everything down for an hour.
> When I came back and started everything up again, all 3 of the decoders on
> my PC had trouble decoding anything. They would get some decoded, then
just
> stop decoding. Then they would start back to decoding again. This happened
>on pretty much every QSO after the break.

Windows 7 and Windows 10 can arbitrarily rename/reconnect audio devices if
you unplug some audio device or plug a new audio device in, and can also
just reconnect things differently after a reboot.

What I have found happening, is that a microphone hooked to the computer
gets mistakenly gets selected as the audio input to the RTTY decoders,
instead of the rigs audio output hooked to PC's Line In. This can be very
frustrating because just enough audio leaks out of the headphones and into
the computer microphone that it shows on the waterfall and kinda sorta
decodes but not well.

Tim N3QE