Recently during a QSO a ham said the software I was using was not very sensitive. I decided I needed to collect some data to make an informed decision about which software I should be using. I ran several of the RTTY software packages through the AWGN function of PathSim and used RttyCompare to calculate the percentage of errors in the resulting text. The data can be found at http://mysite.verizon.net/wz7i/RTTY.html
This is not meant to be a polemical posting. I may well have made less than optimal choices in setting program parameters and I am anxious to receive suggestions about how the testing could be improved. Also, I am aware that sensitivity is only one factor in choosing what communications software to use. Wes, WZ7I www.wz7i.com CW Skimmer CQ spots: cw.wz7i.com:7300
