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Re: [RTTY] Software for RTTY contesting?

To: "rtty@contesting.com" <rtty@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Software for RTTY contesting?
From: Don AA5AU <aa5au@bellsouth.net>
Reply-to: Don AA5AU <aa5au@bellsouth.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:55:26 -0800 (PST)
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You can use Fldigi with N1MM Logger. That's probably the best solution for you. 
It's free and not hard to use.

73, Don AA5AU



>________________________________
> From: w1hkj <w1hkj@bellsouth.net>
>To: rtty@contesting.com 
>Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 8:26 AM
>Subject: Re: [RTTY] Software for RTTY contesting?
> 
>On 02/13/2013 08:07 AM, John Merrill wrote:
>> For RTTY contesting N1MM(free) is the way to go for a PC. For the Mac there
>> is RUMped. RUMped is a little tricky to set up. The author's documentation
>> is way behind the current version (he is a busy person) and it's not quite
>> as good as N1MM.
>>
>> 73, John N1JM
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Keith Maton <g6nhu@me.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've been a RTTY operator on and off for many years, in the 1980s I used a
>>> Creed 444 teleprinter, progressed onto an Acorn Atom computer and I'm now
>>> using fldigi on an iMac.  Fldigi works very well, I've put together a good
>>> set of contest macros and I've used it with success over the last couple of
>>> years but I now feel I've outgrown it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My requirements are (I hope) quite straightforward.  I'd like to be able
>>> to operate the majority of RTTY contests (it would be nice to be able to do
>>> PSK31/63 as well), including ones such as BARTG HF RTTY where part of the
>>> exchange is the current time.  I'd like a real time display of statistics
>>> showing mults worked, current score etc and I'd like DXCluster integration
>>> so that I can find multipliers and hopefully QSY direct to them, work them
>>> and switch back to my run frequency afterwards.  At the moment I'm
>>> operating almost exclusively by running and that's clearly detrimental to
>>> my final score.
>>>
>>>
>>> My computer is an iMac but I will set up a dedicated XP or Windows 7
>>> virtual machine just for this.  My radio is a Kenwood TS-590 and I have
>>> just a single USB cable between the rig and the computer.  Everything goes
>>> down that USB cable, both CAT and the built in sound card on the 590.
>fldigi and flrig run on both the G4 and Intel OS X machines
>
>You will find the TS590S fully supported by flrig.  fldigi can operate 
>on a large range of digital modes including RTTY.
>
>You can also run both of those programs on a Windows machine (including 
>XP, Vista, Win7, Win8) if you prefer.
>
>http://www.w1hkj.com/
>
>73, Dave, W1HKJ
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