Hi Bill,
Great information on RITTY.
It's a real shame that code could not be rolled into a modern program.
As far as I've seen, none of the modern decoders are said to work as
well. But then again, these seem to be mostly subjective comments.
In your side-by-side comparisions, I'm sure you may have had the unique
chance to diddle a bit with the MMTTY settings.
May I know if you would have any suggestions for optimizing MMTTY for
weak signal detection?
73/jeff/ac0c
Bill, W6WRT wrote:
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
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> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:23:13 -0400, "allan1 dejazzd.com"
> <allan1@dejazzd.com> wrote:
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>> Anyone have experience using it? Any info would be greatly appreciated
>>
>
> REPLY:
>
> It is not likely you can obtain a copy, but you can try. The author is
> Brian Beezley, K6STI. He became outraged (rightfully so) at some
> piracy which was done back in the '90s and quit ham radio. Brian is a
> brilliant programmer and his loss to ham radio is immense. he is the
> author of Yagi Optimizer and a number of other programs which are all
> marvels of simplicity and effectiveness.
>
> I own a copy of RiTTY and have compared it side by side to many other
> TNCs and software programs. It outperformed all of them except for the
> HAL ST-8000, where I would call it a tie.
>
> RiTTY originally sold for $150, the amount I paid, and later the price
> was dropped to $100 before being pulled off the market entirely.
>
> RiTTY requires a true DOS machine, which Windows 98 is the last
> version thereof, and works with only a very few specific SoundBlaster
> 16 soundcards and they must be run on an ISA bus. The PCI bus common
> on today's computers will not work. If you can obtain a copy of RiTTY
> and cobble together such a computer, you will be very impressed with
> its performance. The entire program is only 56 kB in size, another
> source of amazement.
>
> I have RiTTY running on a second computer with the monitor next to my
> primary station monitor. When MMTTY misses a character or two I can
> glance over at RiTTY and more often than not, RiTTY has it.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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