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From: Brian A
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:45 PM
Subject: [digitalradio] Re: A challenge to RTTY operators!
Rick,
I used a CP-1 TU up to the day the WF1B RTTY contest program became
unsupported. WF1B supported quite a few TU
have brought many low cost or
freeware products into our hobby over the years.
73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
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From: Brian A
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 6:24 AM
Subject: [digitalradio] Re: A challenge to RTTY operators
Rick,
I used a CP-1 TU up to the day the WF1B RTTY contest program became
unsupported. WF1B supported quite a few TU types but no sound cards.
That was around 1996 or 7.
Here's a tidbit of info.
Score required to win 1997 USA CQ WW RTTY single op assisted in 1997 =
553k points. I still have
I have to concur with Jose on this. I was a very active HF and VHF
digital ham starting around 1981 with a homebrew XR2206/XR2211 TU that
was from QST magazine and called The State of the Art TU. It most
assuredly was not, but being naive and new to RTTY found it to be a very
poor performer.
Rick wrote:
I have to concur with Jose on this. I was a very active HF and VHF
digital ham starting around 1981 with a homebrew XR2206/XR2211 TU that
was from QST magazine and called The State of the Art TU. It most
assuredly was not, but being naive and new to RTTY found it to be a very
Andy,
Maybe it is a chicken and the egg thing. To have activity, you have
to have activity.
I don't think it has anything to do with the digital mode. The
advance that made RTTY so popular was the advent of sound card RTTY.
I can attest to that since I operated RTTY contests before and
Allow me to disagree (slightly) on the beginnings of RTTY popularity.
I would blame Baycom, and the old Mix DOS versions.
I used them (as well as quite few hams I know) way before
PSK31 and the sound card modes appeared. Actually, after using them, I
built a hardware modem that improved a LOT
