[LCC] CQ WW RTTY

[Steve Lott]

Mark,

Wow !

When I need a software Hardware Interface problem resolved I now know who
to call !!!
Very respectable score for your first RTTY contest.

cheers!

steve
KG5VK


On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:59 AM, George- K4GM <k4gm at verizon.net> wrote:

> Mark,
>
> Welcome to RTTY.  It's a blast.  I had never touched RTTY until 2006 and
> was instantly hooked. I think I worked you on two bands from NR4M a M/M.
> We use N1MM and added a second window for decoding using 2Tone by G3YYD as
> the decoder in window #2. Wow! What a difference over MMTTY. I cannot count
> how many times the MMTTY window would have gibberish or absolutely zilch
> while the 2Tone window would show a full call verified in the call check
> window.  However, there were a few times when MMTTY decoded better but not
> many.  About half way through the contest I made 2Tone my primary window
> and MMTTY secondary. 2Tone seemes to have it all over MMTTY on weak signals
> or ones with heavy QSB.  Hope to see you in the next one.
>
> 73, George, K4GM
>
>   Mark, K5ER <k5er at arrl.net>
>  Wednesday, October 03, 2012 2:14 AM
> Wow,
>     Now I see why this is among the fastest growing contest modes. Just
> worked my very first rtty contest and had a blast. Thanks to all you guys
> for the help and answering questions, and especially Don for the great web
> site and for talking me through some of the details on my hybrid set-up.
>     I knew that if I was going to do this, I wanted to be SO2R. I also
> decided that I wanted to use only one computer, just like the other modes.
> While AFSK only took a few minutes to set up, at the serious prompting of
> several of you, I decided to go FSK to use the filtering in the Icom rigs.
> That was GREAT advice, guys and it made A LOT of difference. With only one
> spare port on the computer, it did cause me to work for it. I modified my
> DX-Doubler by adding means to get audio from both radios SIMULTANEOUSLY to
> the stereo sound card for decoding. I also added a serial port to the DXD
> so I could toggle a pin to send the FSK signal to the second rig. FSK for
> the first rig was sent through the parallel cable that runs the DXD. I was
> able to use the existing rig control cables to handle the PTT keying. Took
> several days to plan, build and test, but it came together the day before
> the contest. The hardest part was getting the software to understand what I
> was doing hardware wise - or was it understanding the limitations of the
> software and making the hardware work with what the software would output?
> Either way, I out-patienced them both and it finally worked the way I
> wanted it to.
>     I only managed two rtty contacts before the contest, but everything
> looked like it was going to play correctly, and it did. I had never even
> listened to a rtty contest before, and even though I blew both EU openings,
> I managed to bag 523 contacts and end up with just over 351K points. I
> heard club members NX8G, AA5AU, N5VU, KN5O, W5RU, and K1DW. Hope to see you
> guys often on this mode in the future, and thanks for the encouragement.
>
> 73,
> Mark, K5ER
>
>
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