[Elecraft] K3 FSK/D vs MMTTY
iain macdonnell - N6ML
ar at dseven.org
Sat May 18 13:17:30 EDT 2013
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Jim Leder (Hotmail) <k8cxm at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to decide if I should invest in an SVGA card for my P3. I know about all the nice features that the SVGA card will give me, but I have been told by a top contester that the K3 decoder is not as good as MMTTY. I like on occasion to do FSK/D, and have been using the built in function of the K3 with fair success. With my old, displaced Pro 3, I used MMTTY/EXTFSK and a Green Heron Radio Boss with very good results. I still have the Radio Boss, and see that it would be easy to implement with my K3. So, the only question I have is does anyone have an unbiased opinion on which offers better results in the decode of FSK/D?
> Certainly, I can do the Radio Boss option for less than $50, since I have the unit. The SVGA would run me around $300 (I would need another monitor). I am not a heavy user of RTTY or PSK, but on occasion use those modes. I am leaning to the less expensive Radio Boss option, or just continue with the K3/terminal program readout.
> So, again which is a better RTTY decoder: MMTTY or the built in K3 decoder? Or, are the pretty much the same?
Why don't you try it and see for yourself? All you need is a standard
3.5mm TRS audio cable to go from the K3's line out to the computer
sound card's line in (or that radio boss thing, perhaps). You can run
both decoders in parallel and see which one does better.
73,
~iain / N6ML
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