Fellow RTTY operators,
I had some interesting private emails about the spectra I posted here,
especially about the now infamous "Signal 3". If you haven't seen Signal 3,
you might want to look at it, it's rather important for what's coming:
http://www.frontiernet.net/~aflowers/rtty_examples/
A few people asked whether I had contacted this station about the problem. I
suppose there was a problem, as this station was clicking over 3 KHz of my
receiver. The answer is that I did not I did not contact this station. I had
no reason to.because I am fully aware of the response I would get. (Truth be
told, the owner of Signal 3 is gracious enough that he would move mountains to
improve things. He's one of those guys that if you tell him he's QRMing you he
will actually move without talking back. But for now his signal makes a better
object lesson.)
The fundamental causes of Signal in #3 or any of the "wide" signals in those
plots fundamentally has *nothing* to do with AFSK vs. FSK keying. It does
however have everything to do with the waveform coming out of the
radio. This does however offer up what is going to be a bitter pill for many
of us: Signal 3 is representative of the "true" FSK generator in every modern
radio of which I am aware. If you run "true FSK" and are loud, this is most
likely what you look like when the band is open (and no, you do not have the
"cleanest signal on the band" at any signal-to-noise ratio).
No, this doesn't necessarily mean you should give
up "true" FSK keying. There are things you can do about it, and some
people are people taking responsibility and doing these things--please read the
article! Then let's talk about it because I don't have all the answers.
You can find the article here:
http://www.frontiernet.net/~aflowers/k3rtty/k3rtty.html
Respectfully,
Andy Flowers, K0SM/2
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