[GreenKeys] Opinions wanted for best HF converter

[hunybuny at eskimo.com]

Hey Steve;

I'm afraid I'm going to burst your bubble when I tell you that
no matter how much money you spend, and what you get, you're going
to have 2 problems:

o 99.99999% of RTTY has gone Internet/e-mail so there is almost nothing to decode.

o the stuff that hasn't gone Internet/e-mail is encoded and you can't decode it.

Case-in-point: there are several RTTY stations that are coming in here at
20 over S-9. They run 24 hours a day - and have incredible signals.

I can not decode them, nor can I find out what mode they are using and where
I can go to get something to decode them.

I'd pay some serious money to be able to decode them - but I can't find out
what mode they are running. I've checked with ALOT of newsgroups / forums, and
noone can tell me.

I know you've been off-line for many years - but if you still have your ears,
you'll find these stations:

o transmit 850Hz shift.

o transmit short bursts.

o unlike a Teletype machine, while sending there are short pauses.

o send some kind of binary bit pattern after each transmission.

o drop their carrier for a couple of seconds.

o start again with a bit pattern and then transmit their data.

UE,
W6ESE - tony
NNNNZCZC



Steve wrote:
> Howdy Folks,
> As I mentioned in my last post (Kleinschmidt TT-4) I'm getting
> back into RTTY after being out of it for many years. I'd like
> to hear from folks here what is the best receiving converter
> for HF.  I've got;
-- 
Tony J. Podrasky | Professor Goddard does not know the relation between
                  | action and reaction and the need to have something
                  | better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems
                  | to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high
                  | schools.             -New York Times editorial, 1921