[UK-CONTEST] RSGB Contest Committee

[Andy Swiffin]

> 
> 
> DATA CC CONTESTS on 80m
> 
>>  RTTY is the major contesting data mode and up to now has 
>>  been at 45.5Bauds. ... the BARTG 75 Baud contest, which 
>>  a lot thought a waste of time, it has proven to be very popular.
>>  ... would be interesting to see how 75Baud RTTY performed  
>>  ... extremely simple to go from one speed to another and the 
>>  same narrow CW filter can be used.  ... enable scores to be 
>>  increased, in the small amount of time spent on RTTY.
>>  [I would] not suggest an increase in PSK speed as the 
>>  bandwidth is already very small 
> 
> Any other thoughts on this, please?
> 

The "same narrow CW filter" cannot be used on my TS2000,  you only have sensible filtering in the true FSK mode.   BUT, anyone using the EXTFSK driver (like me) to run FSK will not be able to run 75 baud as EXTFSK has 45.5 hard coded.    It my be that someone will modify the driver in the future.   There is the option to run AFSK, but then (at least on the ts2000 and I believe on some other rigs) you loose the nice filtering and are limited to whatever you can do on SSB.   


73
Andy
gm8oeg



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