[LCC] RTTY Competition

[Charles Morrison]

98 on a P200 might be a bit slow for CW, but should work well enough for
RTTY and SSB.

The advantage of 98 is of course the ability to still directly address the
LPT port for CW.  So basically with both Writelog and N1MM, you'd gain the
ability to use the soundcard, and continue to use your LPT1 cw interface.
The mangled CW came from those who attempted to use the serial port for CW
generation because of the limitations of 2000/XP/Vista implemented on the
LPT port.

N1MM is big, but like Roland says, its free.  Writelog is probably a bit
smaller, and it costs $30/year.  I've just gotten to where im comfortable
with it, like you guys are with NA.  I wouldn't rip you off of NA (given
your comfort level) if there weren't so many additional advantages to moving
to a Windows package.

1.  Soundboard - Any soundboard
2.  Networking - Ethernet networking of multiple pc's, not requiring an
additional serial port
3.  Multiple screens - Bandmaps, mult maps, gray line, entry window, graphic
interface instead of commands
4.  Windows environment - supports all of the newest developments in
contesting, scoreboard, skimmer, etc.

Pick a program that you're comfortable with because it'll be the one you're
most efficient with, but if you guys took 3 or 4 contests to get away from
the dos limitations, you'd see what the advantages of Windows has.  Of
course, Tree still runs TR, and still wins, so I guess there's always holes
in this argument!

Charlie


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lcc-bounces at louisianacontestclub.org [mailto:lcc-
> bounces at louisianacontestclub.org] On Behalf Of Roland Guidry
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:33 AM
> To: W5WZ at arrl.net; LCC at louisianacontestclub.org
> Subject: Re: [LCC] RTTY Competition
> 
> N1MM is free, but I am not familiar with it. You can get Writelog fairly
> quick over the internet. I use it for all modes (CW, RTTY SSB). Don't know
> how good Windows 98 will be with any of these programs thought. Charlie??
> 
> Roland NA5Q
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lcc-bounces at louisianacontestclub.org
> [mailto:lcc-bounces at louisianacontestclub.org] On Behalf Of Scott Dickson,
> W5WZ
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:17 AM
> To: LCC at louisianacontestclub.org
> Subject: Re: [LCC] RTTY Competition
> 
> OK Charlie, I'll bite.  I have a 1st generation Pentium 200 PC that I can
> run either native DOS 6.22 or Windows 98.  It has a true SB16 (yes, ISA)
as
> well as 4 com ports and 3 LPT ports.  As you know, I too still us NA for
> logging.  However, NA is pretty poor for RTTY, as it requires a KAM TNC
and
> is very limited in the commands it will pass to the KAM.
> 
> So, what software would you LCC members recommend for RTTY contesting?
> 
> Do you use the same package for RTTY, CW, and SSB, or do you use
> mode-specific software?
> 
> If planning to run SO2R RTTY, will I need 2 soundcards?  If that is the
> case, you better FexEx one to me!
> 
> --Scott
> 
> 
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