[Elecraft] K3S's built-in RTTY

[Jim Brown]

I can't comment on the quality of the K3S USB interface, because I don't 
own one. The decoder built into the K3 is pretty good, often as good or 
better than the software decoder.  When used with a keyboard and P3/SVGA 
setup, it's pretty good for casual operation, and even for a DX pileup. 
My neighbor, W6GJB, uses that setup for casual operation and is quite 
happy with it. He also says that he thinks the decoder built into the 
KX3 is even better!

There are several advantages though to using software decoders running 
on a computer attached to the audio stream. The major one is that you 
can choose decoder settings optimized for distortion produced by 
different kinds of propagation -- like selective fading, multi-path, and 
so on. The freeware MMTTY and 2Tone decoders are often used 
simultaneously to decode the same signal. When one decoder misses 
characters, the other often copies them fine. Contest logging programs 
WriteLog and N1MM Logger Plus make it easy to do this. Winwarbler does 
the same for non-contest operation.

I use N1MM for contest logging and WinWarbler for non-contest operation. 
Many top RTTY contesters prefer WriteLog for RTTY.

73, Jim K9YC

On Wed,3/8/2017 10:51 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>
>> For you experienced RTTY'ers, is the built-in capability considered
>> on a par with using a separate sound card interface and separate RTTY
>> PC software,
>
> Not even close!