[Elecraft] MMTTY DATA-A or FSK

[david Moes]

Thanks everyone for the advice.  sounds like I was well on the right 
track.  I just wasn't sure if I should go with FSK  seems I don't need 
to.    I have seen references to using multiple decode screens  and was 
on the research list  glad you mentioned it Jim.     I have a good 
dedicated sound card for AFSK and  have been using it for a long time 
for other digital modes and analog sstv etc.  so no worries there.    
and yep I did have it AFSK-A  not DATA-A as I wrote in the OP sorry 
about that confusion.

As far as padding the messages with a line feed and  space at the end   
yep  found many ops that didn't do that and was hard to know which was 
the first or last letter of a call vs decoded noise sometimes like this
"LKASDFVE3SD 599 04 ON  VE3SDYUBDS ASJD AGWSW"
very  Confusing.   I quickly confirmed I had a leading and trailing 
space on all macros when I realised what was happening so I wasn't doing 
the same thing to others. I didn't add the line feed  Ill revisit that 
before next contest.

All good advice
Thanks

David Moes
President: Peterborough Amateur Radio Club.
dmoes at nexicom.net
VE3DVY,  VE3SD