ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
A quote from Del Schier, K1UHF, at West Mountain Radio:
>Note that AFSK works very well with the advantage that the software AFC
>tunes automatically and precisely zero beats the other station; a slow and
>tedious manual operation with true FSK. As far as I can tell the only
>advantage to pure FSK is that some radios have pre programmed narrow RTTY
>filters inside the AGC loop may not let you program the radio's SBB filters
>to keep strong adjacent stations from killing the RF gain. Otherwise the
>DSP audio filtering in a program like MMTTY is far superior than any radio's
>IF filters.
REPLY:
1. Tuning manually is a "slow and tedious operation"....?
and
2.The other advantage of true FSK: No concern about the input gain
control setting and the possible overdrive of low-level audio stages.
Does K1UHF even operate RTTY?
73, Bill W6WRT
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