I had a nice Contestia QSO yesterday. Heard a guy calling in it (without RS ID) and it took me a minute to realize it was Contestia rather than Olivia but it worked very well.
Regarding RTTYM, I believe if the "UOS" unshift-on-space option was added (like most RTTY programs) it would be much better. 73 Sholto K7TMG Patrick Lindecker wrote: > > > > Hello to all, > > Contestia is a very good compromise. Twice faster than Olivia and almost > as sensitive as Olivia (only a loss of 1.5 dB in the S/N). However there > are only capital letters, which is not a big problem. > > RTTYM has the same problem that RTTY. On an error, you can switch to > figures whereas you might be in letters, or reversely. Not a very good > mode for this reason. However, it is almost 4 times quicker than Olivia. > > 73 > Patrick > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Rick Westerfield <mailto:r_lwesterfi...@bellsouth.net> > *To:* digitalradio@ yahoogroups. com > <mailto:digitalradio@yahoogroups.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:10 PM > *Subject:* Re: [digitalradio] Contestia / RTTYM > > I like the faster print rate of Contestia but there are few users > out there. > > Rick - KH2DF > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 20, 2009, at 7:28 AM, "Simon \(HB9DRV\)" <simon.brown@ kns.ch > <mailto:simon.br...@kns.ch>> wrote: > >> I'm adding these Olivia derrivates to DM780, I'm interested in >> knowing whether they are used much? >> >> Simon HB9DRV >> <http://www.ham-radio-deluxe.com>www.ham-radio- >> <http://www.ham-radio-> deluxe.com >> <http://www.sdr-radio.com>www.sdr-radio <http://www.sdr-radio>. com >> >
