[GreenKeys] Scope vs Lavoris

[Paul A. Pennington]

    Buck;

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us based on your many years of 
experience.  I can "hear" RY's in a signal, even if I can't discern all the 
fine points you can.  I also enjoy the sounds (and smells) of the original 
teletype equipment.

    I have found the "waterfall" display of computer programs such as MMTTY 
to contain much useful information.  It's easy to see the shift of the 
signal, and how the tones are tuned-in relative to the passband of the 
radio, among other things.

    I'm not advocating the use of "glass teletypes", but with old laptop 
computers  available for almost nothing at hamfests, they make good 
displays, probably much cheaper than a scope display.  Just feed some of the 
audio into the sound card and download the free software and go.

    I'd be interested to hear opinions on this.

    Paul Pennington
    Augusta, Georgia