I noticed the same differences by using the built-in RTTY decoder on my
756Pro. As good as MMTTY is, the Pro's decoder sometimes did a better job of
picking up some of the data, especially callsigns. Too bad I can't "cut and
paste" from the rig to N1MM!
Scott N0IU
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Muns" <w0yk@msn.com>
To: <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 1:00 PM
Subject: [RTTY] RITTY vs. MMTTY
> At HC8N last weekend W6OTC and I did some minimal subjective comparison of
> RITTY and MMTTY simultaneously on the same signal. Most of the time, as
> expected, both decoders worked fine. On rare occasions, one would decode
> while the other didn't. In our limited evaluation (we were "distracted"
> working the contest and not focused on decoder comparisons), it seemed
> that
> RITTY would decode signals buried in noise when MMTTY failed. OTOH, MMTTY
> decoded some instances where RITTY did not and those seemed to be large
> signal situations. All very subjective and anecdotal, but interesting for
> us to not see a clear overall advantage between the two decoders.
> Probably
> the biggest take away is re-confirmation of the value of running multiple
> parallel decoders to get that last bit of reliable decoding across
> thousands
> of contacts.
>
> 73,
> Ed - W0YK
>
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