[WriteLog] Writelog & RITTY

[Anders Larsson]

Don,
Different opinion:

In my location with a high local noise level and with my invisible dipoles
on the balcony signals are often marginal. I have been using RITTY on a
laptop and WriteLog with RTTYrite on the logging computer with the same
audio signal in recent contests. The difference in my situation is big!
RITTY consistently copies marginal signals better than RTTYrite. For strong
signals there is no difference. This must be seen to be believed.

I have also used WriteLog and RITTY together. What I then miss is the dual
receive feature in WriteLog.

If you are not interested in dual receive without TNC and if you have a
compatible sound card I would say that RITTY instead of RTTYrite with
WriteLog is a profitable investment.

Sure DOS is out but that does not mean that we must stop using good
available programs which do work well in a Windows environment.
I stopped using WF1B however......


73
Andy DF3IAL
df3ial@t-online.de


> W1ZT is the only one I know of that has successfully used RITTY with
WriteLog
> in actual contest conditions (there may be others I just don't know of
them).
>
> I tried RITTY with WriteLog a few weeks ago.  My problem was that RITTY
> would not work with either of the sound cards I had in my computers.  I
was
> able to successfully install it and have the appropriate small tuning
window show
> up in WriteLog.  It just didn't decode anything.  So I'm not sure what
your
> problem could be.  If it works in DOS it should work with WriteLog.
>
> My opinion in all this is that it's really not worth it to have RITTY work
with
> WriteLog.  Why would you want to use a DOS program with an already capable
> Windows program?  RTTYrite works great with any sound card in Windows.
>
> I admit I have never used RITTY successfully.  But I can't possibly see
where
> it could be significantly better than RTTYrite in contest situations.  I
run three
> different combinations here, PK232, DXP38 and sound cards (2).  Under
contest
> conditions, either of them copy better than the other under certain
situations.
>
> Now that Wayne has added a split window for Wide Band Decode, you'd be
> better off chucking RITTY altogether.  I have nothing against Brian,
K6STI.
> Many operators are using his software.  If you want to use it, perhaps
you'd be
> better off sticking with WF1B.
>
> Please don't take this as an insult.  I look for you in every RTTY
contest.  I'm normally
> Low Power so it's always a great pleasure to get you in the log and I hope
to see
> you in the next RTTY contest.  Just my opinion.  DOS is out, Windows is
in.
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Kresge" <du3nxe@mozcom.com>
> To: <writelog@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 10:03 PM
> Subject: [WriteLog] Writelog & RITTY
>
>
> >
> > For Writelog plus RITTY users-
> >
> > I recently upgraded Writelog to version 10.25M and RITTY to version 4.5
so I
> > could use them together. But I have not been able to do so.
> >
> > In accordance with the Writelog help files I added the following line:
> > "RITTY_LOCATION=C:\RITTY" to the WRITELOG.INI file just after
[Rttyrite].
> >
> > Then I go into Windows and click on the Writelog program shortcut. When
the
> > program opens I change the modem to "RITTY in a DOS window".
> >
> > Then the Bill Gates "BLUE SCREEN" window pops up telling me "An
exception 0E
> > has occured at 0028, etc., etc.". After clearing this window I am back
in
> > Writelog and the RITTY tuning window is present but on top is a warning
> > window saying-"RITTY This program requires more conventional memory.
Unload
> > drivers, etc, etc.". But when I reboot back into DOS and use the MEM /C
> > command to check memory I find that there is 638,928 (624K). bytes
available
> > which seems to me should be more than adequate.
> >
> > Then when I am back in Windows I click on the MSDOS prompt in the
program
> > list and the BLUE SCREEN warning pops up again. So something must be
eating
> > up conventional memory when I go into Windows. Checking AUTOEXEC.BAT AND
> > CONFIG.SYS I find that I have everything loaded high. I even temporarily
> > removed the CDROM commands by the REM command to try and free up more
memory
> > but it did not help.
> >
> > My computer is an INTEL Celeron 366MHz PC with 32MB RAM and a big 4+GB
> > harddrive. It has Windows 98 with the latest upgrades installed.
> >
> > Can anyone give me some ideas about what is keeping me from opening the
DOS
> > RITTY tuning window with Writelog so I can use them together? I want to
see
> > if Writelog/RITTY is a better choice for RTTY contesting than my present
> > WF1B/RITTY.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance for your help-Chuck-DU3NXE du3nxe@mozcom.com
> >
> >
> >
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