> Who Won? Is anybody going to engineer, design and build a
> "new" RTTY Modem for us
>
> This looks like a job for Microham ... Joe?
As mentioned elsewhere, hardware designs are simply too inflexible
and too costly. Anyone can throw together some code for a sound
card and release it for free. Unfortunately, that makes doing a
RTTY modem a losing proposition for a company like microHAM.
To do a top notch job requires someone with a detailed knowledge
of DSP, data coding, modulation and HF propagation characteristics.
Even then it would take many man-months and probably be something
that would be pirated as soon as the first copy was sold.
It is a shame that Chen's code is not available on the Windows
platform ... I'd like to link it to Dave's outstanding logging
software <G>.
> But if Microham would build a Harware RTTY Modem (a good one)
> I would buy it.
Both Chen's cocoaModem and Dave's DXLab Suite run very well with
microHAM's hardware <G>.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve Hunt, W1CDX
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:11 AM
> To: rtty@contesting.com
> Subject: [RTTY] Best RTTY program/hardware
>
>
> very Interesting thread... but it suddenly stopped
>
> Who Won? Is anybody going to engineer, design and build a
> "new" RTTY Modem for us
>
> This looks like a job for Microham ... Joe?
>
> I too am suspect of all the Soundcard decoders, we all use
> ... for not beeing up to par to a good Hardware solution ...
> But Hardware wise ... there is nothing out there.
>
> maybe if I had a good Hardware RTTY decoder, I could save
> myself some time building out my Receive-Antenna, which I
> have to takle this summer and many Q? will follow.
>
> Anyway, nice thoughts and I too will try the EU1 profile that
> Dave uploaded to his DXLabs Site.
>
> But if Microham would build a Harware RTTY Modem (a good one)
> I would buy it.
>
> 73 all
> Steve, W1CDX
>
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